Dig Deeper: 4 Pillars of the SANCTUARY Entrance

Friday, July 17, 2015

4 Pillars of the SANCTUARY Entrance

And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework:
and their pillars shall be four,
Exodus 27:16

What do the 4 pillars at the gate of the Sanctuary represent?

The pillars represent both truth & God's people-God's people with the TRUTH....
Truth- ...which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:15
God's People- Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,... and I will write upon him the name of my God,
Revelation 3:12

How does God know them?

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure,

having this seal,

The Lord knoweth them that are his.

And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2 Timothy 2:19

What is this "seal" they have in the end times? Where is this "seal" found?
In His Sabbath commandment...... "The Sabbath commandment contains elements not contained in any of the other commandments. It states the name of the Lawgiver (LORD), His territory (heaven and Earth), and His title (Creator). These three components comprise what is known as a seal, and lend authority to the law." AmazingDiscoveries

The 4 pillars to the entrance of the Sanctuary were 3 pathways between the 4 pillars. (a pathway between each 2 pillars).

Christ said - Jesus saith unto him,

1- I am the way,

2- the truth,

3- and the life:

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6

Also, for the end times where else does God give us 3 paths of truth to the same ONE core TRUTH?
The 3 Angels Message of Revelation 14 for the end....
1) The Hour of His Judgment has come (the Sanctuary doctrine/Investigative Judgment). Also, it contains a repeat of the creation story right out of the 4th (the Sabbath) commandment.
Rev. 14:6,7
2) Babylon is fallen. Her cup of iniquity is full and reaches unto Heaven. Later in Revelation 18, God calls His people out of spiritual Babylon. Our mission is to call people out of Babylon to the truth for the end. Rev. 14:8/18:4,5
3) Identification of the Mark of the Beast (a counterfeit "Sabbath"). Rev. 14:9,10 (Those who follow God after the Mark of the Beast is implemented will have the seal of God & the others to will have a "seal"-the Mark of the Beast. ) And how is this remnant who opposes the mark identified? Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, Revelation 14:12.

Bind up the testimony,

seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:16

Saying,

Hurt not the earth,

neither the sea,

nor the trees, (People-Isaiah 61:3)

till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Revelation 7:13

* Also, the symbolism of the 3 pathways between the 4 pillars could represent the Trinity/Godhead, with each playing a role in the plan of Redemption laid out in the Sanctuary.
Christ- Outer Court (Justification)
Holy Spirit - Inner Court (Sanctification)
God the Father - Most Holy Place (Judgment)

"The great facts of

1) creation as presented by the inspired writers,

2) the fall of man,

3) the atonement, and the

4) perpetuity of the law of God,

are practically rejected, either wholly or in part, by a large share of the professedly Christian world. In rejecting the truth, men reject its Author. In trampling upon the law of God, they deny the authority of the Law-giver. It is as easy to make an idol of false doctrines and theories as to fashion an idol of wood or stone.No error accepted by the Christian world strikes more boldly against the authority of Heaven, none is more directly opposed to the dictates of reason, none is more pernicious in its results, than the modern doctrine, so rapidly gaining ground, that God's law is no longer binding upon men."

Great Controversy p.582,583 E.G.W.

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What do the 3 colors represent?

1- BLUE - Blue is for obedience. The Law.
2- PURPLE - Royalty.
3- SCARLET - Sin but also the color of blood. His blood to cover our sins.
Blue + Scarlet = PURPLE. Christ is worthy of the Royal title of King of Kings because He is both Lawgiver & the Sacrifice of His blood.
Also, YOU become Justified (outer court of Sanctuary by His blood sacrifice) then become Sanctified (change your ways through His Spirit & Word, hence you then keep His Law because your heart is right with God/Obedience) = prepared for the Judgment in the Most Holy Place (to receive your crown of Glory).

Preaching Justification (Grace) - Sanctification (Obedience) = CHEAP GRACE
Preaching Sanctification (Obedience) - Justification (Grace) = LEGALISM

JUSTIFICATION + SANCTIFICATION = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH

* More on the BLUE-
FIRST)
In the Inner Court, where Sanctification takes place ( Table of Bread/His word =Bible study, Candlestick of Light = witnessing for Him, Altar of Incense = prayer......in other words a changed life--Sanctification). These were covered with BLUE....(Blue = Obedience, Sanctification, a changed life).
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue,...And they shall take a cloth

of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light,...And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, Numbers 4:7,9,11
SECOND)
Notice that the whore of Revelation (opposite of God's people) does NOT wear BLUE....

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

Revelation 17:4 ....her scarlet would be for SIN, not for Justification by His blood. Her Purple would be that the (Little Horn of Daniel/Beast of Revelation) sets himself up as if he is God on earth (Blasphemy-And he shall speak great words against the most High, ... and think to change times and laws: Daniel 7:25 ). But this power doesn't really obey God--hence no BLUE covering.

The gold, which in Revelation 3, represents His righteousness, as with a counterfeit Sabbath, this system too has a counterfeit righteousness of their own works (like today preaching Jesuit Liberation Theology for the "poor" and saving "mother earth" from so-called climate change, Sunday Sacredness, etc.). It is currently defining it's own righteousness.

Its'precious stones would be that it is arrayed with the wealth, ways & things of the world.

"The angels are represented as flying in the midst of heaven,

proclaiming to the world a message of warning, and having a direct bearing upon the people living in the last days of this earth's history. No one hears the voice of these angels, for they are a symbol to represent the people of God who are working in harmony with the universe of heaven. Men and women, enlightened by the Spirit of God and sanctified through the truth, proclaim the three messages in their order.
The enemy will set everything in operation to uproot the confidence of the believers in the pillars of our faith in the messages of the past,... Those who have a hold of the truth theoretically, with their finger tips as it were, who have not brought its principles into the inner sanctuary of the soul, but have kept the vital truth in the outer court, will see nothing sacred in the past history of this people.."
Selected Messages vol.2, p.389,390 E.G.W.

Thy way, O God,

is in the sanctuary:

Psalm 77:13

What We BELIEVE

* And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13:13

* Genesis 1-11 is actual HISTORY

* The 10 Commandments WAS - IS - & WILL BE the LAW of GOD

* REVELATION is written in symbols for actual end time events

* The SANCTUARY lays out the Plan of Salvation (Justification / Outer Court + Sanctification / Inner Court = preparation for your Judgment / Most Holy Place)

* The solemnity of the 7th day SABBATH (Saturday) was NEVER transferred to the 1st day of the week (Sunday) by God

* The modern charismatic movement is a counterfeit Latter Rain

* The Mark-of-the-beast will involve some sort of counterfeit Sabbath

* "Soul Sleep" for the State of the Dead (dead until the resurrection)

* The Godhead (Trinity) are 3 separate beings who work together in unity

* The GODHEAD's Existence is ETERNAL (in other words-The arrow of time stretching for Infinity in both directions)

* The GREEN RELIGION (modern environmental movement) is a cleverly cloaked spiritualism for the "sophisticated" modern world

* The Little Horn of Daniel & the Beast of Revelation (a.k.a. the anti-christ to some) is one & the same institution - the same institution the Reformers declared it to be during the Reformation

* Marriage is between ONE man & ONE woman

* The Emerging Church movement -- & spiritual formation are modern day GNOSTICISM & have NO place within Christendom

* Women Ordination is an ASSAULT on the foundation of the Godhead (as God is the head of Christ in an ecclesiastical setting - so too was the man placed as the head of the woman in an ecclesiastical setting -- outside this setting they are equal as Christ is with the Father)

* Baptism is by Immersion at an age of consent

* Justification + Sanctification = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH....(Justification) Neither do I condemn thee: (Sanctification) go, and sin no more. John 8:11

* God is NOT homophobic -- rather He is sexual immorality phobic (HE places adultery, fornication, rape, bestiality, cross dressing AND homosexuality ALL in the same category)

* "HELL" is NOT an eternally burning place -- rather it is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will be destroyed together once & for all when this Great Controversy between God & His opponent comes to an end....God does NOT torment people for eternity

* The "Great Controversy" theme is the prism to make sense of this universal conflict between God & His opponent, of which we play a part on this space fabric of time as a "spectacle" (as Paul calls it) before all watching

* Biblical "speaking in tongues" was a GIFT of known foreign languages for Evangelization (not the gibberish "tongues" uttered in churches today)

* Historicism is the way to interpret eschatology from the view of the prophetic porch (NOT preterism, futurism or idealisim)

* The 3 Angel's Message (of Rev.14) is the central Mission of the SDA Church & the Sanctuary Doctrine (& it's sub-doctrine of the Investigative Judgment) is the Cornerstone Doctrine of the Denomination

* The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a SYMBOLIC Remembrance

* The 2nd Advent of Christ will be a literal, visible, physical return where EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM & that is when the dead will rise & the living be caught up-- Not at some sort of a "secret rapture" before His return...

* On the Nature of Christ - He was born with our sinful fallen nature / propensities--yet did NOT sin - hence His ability to be the spotless Lamb of God - the Lamb without blemish to cover ours

* 7th Day Adventism did not rise up at the end of the time-frame of Daniel 8:14 to be just another denomination to hang upon the wall of Christendom...

* The Dispensations around the Cross are 1) Before the Cross the Plan of Redemption laid out in the earthly Sanctuary in Types & Symbols patterned after the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Altar of Sacrifice to the Mercy Seat} 2) After the Cross shifts to the REALITY of the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Cross to the Judgment Seat}. ---- We REJECT the Dispensationalism that says "before the cross we were saved by the Law & after the Cross by Grace" ---- (the reason is because on BOTH SIDES OF THE CROSS we were never saved by the Law and always saved by Grace)

* We REJECT the DISGUSTING "Prosperity Gospel" as many see TV (so-called) Evangelists preach today

* Justification & Sanctification Simplified - God draws the BOUNDARIES with His LAW. When we step outside of them it's called SIN. (He offers JUSTIFICATION to remedy it). But afterwards He expects us to step back within those Boundaries (called SANCTIFICATION ).

* EndTime "BABYLON" - Confederacy of the Counterfeit Trinity of the "Dragon", "Beast" & "False Prophet" of Rev.16:13. (Also a term of Reference for the Fallen Condition of Christendom)

*The OLD TESTAMENT is simply the NEW TESTAMENT in Types & Symbols- therefore both are valid for Study & Doctrine.

* "A Minister's words are only of Value as long as his word's are an Echo of the Word's of God." {Dwayne Lemon}

* We REJECT the Church being involved with the ECUMENICAL movement....where do you see in Scripture God's people ever being told to be Ecumenical with neighboring religions?.. Nowhere....

*We believe in "Replacement Theology", that "Israel" in prophetic terms and spiritually is God's people...NOT Literal, Modern Day Israel in the Middle East.

* Tithing is Biblical: MONEY (1/10 to God) TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

* Soteriology: We believe in total FREE WILL as a component. - Therefore we Reject Sacramentalism, Predestination, Once-Saved-Always-Saved, Universalism & Pluralism.

* The HEALTH MESSAGE-Live it as best you can. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health... 3 John 1:2

* And always remember - "If you feel yourself to be the greatest sinner, Christ is just what you need, the greatest Savior. Lift up your head and look away from yourself, away from your sin, to the uplifted Savior; away from the poisonous, venomous bite of the serpent to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." Ellen White {JUSTIFICATION}

* "God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed." Ellen White {SANCTIFICATION}

* SUMMARY: "Every chapter and every verse of the Bible is a communication from God to men." Ellen White

* WARNING: "...by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence." Ellen White

Are Ashes Upon Your Lips?

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father's house.
--Have you, reader, chosen your own way?
--Have you wandered far from God?
--Have you sought to feast upon the fruits of transgression, only to find them turn to ashes upon your lips?
Now that voice which has long been speaking to your heart but to which you would not listen comes to you distinct and clear, Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Micah 2:10. Return to your Father's house. He invites you, saying, Return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. 44:22.
E.G.W.