For instance the Temple in which God dwelt behind the veil represented Christ the true temple of the Lord with the Father residing IN HIM, upon him and within the fleshes veil of HIS BODY the TRUE TEMPLE thru the Anointing of the Spirit of the Lord in him. Jesus was top to bottom and Jesus was from east to the west of His Being like a cross Anointed with the Holy Ghost. Jesus was also from the mercy seat of God, from the TRUE throne of God and He was sent from that throne THE TRUE MERCY SEAT to perform the tendermercies of the Lord for His people that was promised. God was in the old testament Temple within the veil and God was IN CHRIST JESUS reconciling the world back unto himself in the NEW TESTAMENT COVENANT TEMPLE OF HIS SONS BODY. When Christ flesh Temple was torn and from those tears he died and gave up the ghost and left that body, at the SAME TIME the thick curtain, the Veil in the Temple was also torn in two and God Spirit left the earthen holy of holies forever to be poured into the hearts of men the TRUE TEMPLES, THE REAL LIVING TEMPLES OF GOD.
We know that those two Cherubims that extended their wings over the mercy seat represented mighty angels, huge guardian angels in heaven around the glorious Throne of God that cry unto the Lord Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty and do other magnificent things.
Yes the old testament is filled with physical representations called shadows that in a mystery preached and represented Christ and the GOOD THINGS to come and that would accompany salvation for the people of God thru Jesus Christ. One could right books upon books about these things and many of our blessed elders have and do so and how I thank God for their labors in the light of these matters.
But just briefly for a quick moment I want us to look at this particular shadow of the old testament that represented also the day and the hour that we THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD shall actually and literally enter into Paradise, wherein we inherit the full of all things. (We are there now in the spirit being that we have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated INTO THE KINGDOM OF GODS DEAR SON JESUS CHRIST (Colossians 1:12-14). We are so much ALREADY THERE in the spirit that Jesus even said of our spiritual citizenship that We THE CHURCH are not of this world even as He was not of this world (John 17:15-17).
Yes right now we are there in spirit deleverance, translation and citizenship thru heavenly workmanship of God and thru His planting us in the spirit into His own heavenly places and location (Ephesians 2:4-10). But soon we shall in all our fulness of face to face contact with all the senses, we shall see and enjoy our Lord and all the places and things that Jesus went ahead of us to PREPARE for us, for our FULNESS arrival day in glory. The place where our believing loved ones roam and play in the joy of the Lord today and every day. For now Paul said we look at these things like looking thru a smoked cloudy glass but then we shall see all things face to face.
Lets set the scene. God had delivered His People (The Children of Israel) with a mighty hand from Pharaoh and their bondage to his heavy loads on their backs. This all represented Satans authority over us do to our sins that gave him place over mankind. Moses in this work of God represented Christ in a shadow form as DELVERER, which is what Moses means. His ascension to the mountain of God to the burning bush which also represented Gods passion and hot desire to SAVE HIS PEOPLE, Moses seeing forms of the Lord there, hearing Gods voice, receiving his mission and orders, God empowering Moses with His Anointing on the staff, all of this and all of these were the shadow representation of Christ coming down from heaven, from far above filled with Gods hot passion and desire to save and to deliver us from our enemies and sin, being sent from the Father, from the mightiness of the Throne of Gods presence to His people, having received his mission and orders from His Father of all that he should speak and do. He comes down from heaven not to do his will but the will of him that sent him. Even so did Moses where all of redemption is seen and represented in a mystery. Moses carried around a wooden staff filled with power to save and to deliver for God empowered that wooden staff and God commanded Moses to carry it every where and use its power to deliver Gods people. Jesus was given by God a wooden staff in the form of a cross and also commanded to carry it, for on that wooden Cross would be the Power of God unto salvation by the sacrifice of His Sons use of it. As it is written, for the Cross of Christ is to them who are blind nothing more than foolishness, but to us who are being saved, the Cross of Christ is the wisdom of God and the POWER OF GOD.
Christ came to redeem and deliver Us from sin and from our enslavement to sin and to Satan that Pharaoh represented. And as it took the death of the first born male child of Egypt to finally cause Pharaoh to let Gods people go free, even so it took the FIRST BORN SON OF GOD to die, to taste death for every man to break Satans legal power and grip over us all and to set us free and deliver us from Satans grip and power and whom the Son has set free is FREE INDEED. So saith the word of the Lord.
Then later down the road of their freedom the children of Israel WALKING WITH GOD were to enter into the earthen PROMISE LAND that represented a life and a promised place to live in and to walk on, upheld by the glorious promises of God by the walk of faith and obedience to Gods will and commands. Such also represented the GLORIOUS DAY TO COME BY JESUS CHRIST when we (The Church Members-Gods Elect) literally cross over into heaven itself, into the paradise of God our eternal land, city, and home.
With that and with this light in mind let's read Deuteronomy 6:10-11), vs 10) So it shall be saith the Lord, when the Lord your God BRINGS YOU INTO THE LAND (That promise land represented in its shadow, it represented heaven itself) OF WHICH I SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, to GIVE you LARGE and BEAUTIFUL CITIES which you did NOT BUILD. vs 11) and HOUSES full of good things which you did not fill, and hewed out wells which you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, you shall eat and you shall be satisfied from the provisions of My plenty.
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