God comes into His Temple and Jesus Christ is the sacrifice for the atonement of Sin

Ezekiel 43

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
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• Glory of God destroys sin and lifts us up by His Spirit.
  • Glory of God comes from the east, like the voice of many waters, and He causes the earth to shine.
  • Glory of God’s Holiness destroys this sin-plagued “city “called earth.
  • Glory of God comes into us through Jesus Christ to lift us up in His Spirit
• God requires Israel to turn away from their dead kings to live for Jesus Christ.
  • God speaks from the temple saying that is His eternal place.
  • God’s name will not be defiled anymore in the place of His eternal throne.
  • God consumes Israel for blaspheming and defiling His Holy name.
  • God warns Israel to put their harlotry and dead kings far away from Him.
• Repentance is to have awareness of our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.
  • Repentance comes by realizing the temple of God is within us.
  • Repentance results in awareness of the temple of the Holy Spirit and living for God from there.
  • Repentance is to know the Holiness of the temple of God.
• Measurements of the Altar and a picture after being built.
• God has made Jesus Christ the atonement for sin and our righteousness.
  • God had set up the law that a sacrifice and shedding of blood was required to make atonement of sin.
  • God required a sin offering to enable people to approach Him.
  • God requires the blood of Christ to be on the altar of our soul.
  • God required the sin offering to be burnt outside the sanctuary.
  • God has made Jesus Christ the sanctifier of the altar of our soul.
  • God sees us as being righteous through Jesus Christ.
• Jesus Christ purifies and preserves us day by day.
  • Jesus Christ has made us the salt of the earth as an offering to the Lord.
  • Jesus Christ has made it possible to walk daily with God.
  • Jesus Christ makes us acceptable to God by being at peace with Him by the forgiveness of sin.

Glory of God destroys sin and lifts us up by His Spirit.
Glory of God comes from the east, like the voice of many waters, and He causes the earth to shine. “Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.” Ezekiel 43:1-2

The east gate faces the door of the Temple, and the altar sits just outside the door, as can be seen in the picture in the post on Ezekiel 40. The altar is the Cross where Jesus Christ poured out His blood as the Lamb of God to atone for our sin. By the atonement He made for our sin, Jesus has opened access to us into the Holy place of the temple, into the presence of God. Now, the altar represents the place within our soul where we give our life to live for Jesus Christ. The temple is our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit as Jesus lives in us by the forgiveness of sin. The glory of God comes through Jesus Christ who lives in us, and our earthy bodies shine with His light. His voice has been heard all around the world, like the sound of many waters.

Glory of God’s Holiness destroys this sin-plagued “city “called earth.  “It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw—like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.” Ezekiel 43:3

The glory of God corresponds to His Holiness which destroys sin, which is to destroy this sin-plagued “city” called earth. The destruction of this earth comes at the hand of the world government and its global culture, before the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ.

The vision that Ezekiel saw at the River Chebar is described in Ezekiel 1 relating to the space shuttle, space station, and space satellites. This vision corresponds to the entity that has power over physiology and is able to give people what to think, feel, do, and say. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through every person in every city across the globe. The masses around the world are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do. The destruction of this earth is due to the world government and its global culture turning away from God, scoffing at the need for Jesus Christ, and oppressing the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Glory of God comes into us through Jesus Christ to lift us up in His Spirit. “And the glory of the Lord came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east. The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.” Ezekiel 43:4-5

Today, it is more apparent than ever that there is a war for the soul of each person. Our body is created to be the temple of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. God wants to come into us as His temple, as Jesus Christ has said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:20 At the same time, the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say wants to sit in the temple as God. This is the one “...who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click for a post on the “man of sin”.

God wants to lift us up by His Spirit, through Jesus Christ, as we are brought into His presence as the temple of the Holy Spirit. He wants His glory to fill us as Jesus lives in us.

God requires Israel to turn away from their dead kings to live for Jesus Christ.
God speaks from the temple saying that is His eternal place. “Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever.” Ezekiel 43:6-7a.

Today, we who come to Jesus Christ have been adopted as the children of Israel, “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:11:13

Jesus Christ was the word made flesh and He knew from God Himself that our body, as the temple of the Holy Spirit, would be the place where God reigns, “Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:20-21

The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of our eternal inheritance in the New Jerusalem, and Jesus Christ is who gives us the Holy Spirit, “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14

The Apostle Paul said this, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, “Into John’s baptism.” Acts 19:2-3 John the Baptist said this, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Matthew 3:11

Today, we hear God speaking to us from within the temple, which is our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ opens our ears to the voice of God, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.” John 10:27-28 Through our Lord Jesus, we hear Him saying that our soul is the place where God governs, and He will live within our midst forever. This also refers to the New Jerusalem being the eternal place of God’s throne, “And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him…And they shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 22:3,5

God’s name will not be defiled anymore in the place of His eternal throne. “No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.” Ezekiel 43:7b.

Today, the Jewish people reject the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who gives life in the Spirit and gives eternal life in the New Jerusalem of the new heaven and earth. They serve and memorialize their patriarchs who have no power to raise them from the dead nor to give eternal life. For that reason, they live in their defilement, “…let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12

There are no promises of blessings spoken about for the Jewish people in the New Testament, as all of the promises of blessings of the Old Testament have been transferred to the followers of Jesus Christ, as Jesus said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” The only way not to defile God’s Holy name is to let Jesus Christ live in us as we embrace the Holy Spirit.

There is only one King, and that is Jesus Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords, “And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” Revelation 19:16 Jesus Christ is not a dead king but a living King who is alive today and sitting on the right hand of God in Heaven, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?  He is not here, but is risen!” Luke 24:5-6 To memorialize kings and prominent people defiles the name of the Living God who sent Jesus Christ to bring eternal life to our soul. “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” Romans 8:11

There is no memorial to “honorable” dead people that can bring life in the Spirit nor eternal life, only Jesus Christ, “He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.” [church hymn].

God consumes Israel for blaspheming and defiling His Holy name.  “When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.” Ezekiel 43:8

There is a wall between the Jewish people and God as they defile His Holy name, and that wall brings the fury of God against them. The Jewish people set their threshold and doorpost by the threshold and doorpost that leads into the presence of God. However, they reject Jesus Christ who is the only way into the presence of God, “Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep… If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:7, 9 The threshold and door of the Jewish people is the Old Testament, but they reject the New Testament [the Gospel of Christ]. Without Jesus Christ a wall is built prohibiting them from entering through the door into the presence of God. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…” Hebrews 1:1-2

The Jewish people defile God’s Holy name by turning away from His will for them to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Messiah and to receive the Holy Spirit. As a result, they are being and will be consumed by the fury of God’s Holiness. The Israelis have been in 18 wars since the State of Israel was established in 1948, and we see them being whittled away today, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. In Ezekiel chapter 39, we see where Israel stands in the “day after” the Battle of Armageddon. They are destroyed, then the world government, its global culture, and its military are destroyed. Then the Day of the Lord comes to make an end of this present world system and Jesus Christ returns.

God has gathered the Jewish people to the State of Israel for the purpose of unleashing the fury of His judgment on them, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20

To set a threshold next to God’s threshold, and a doorpost next to God’s doorpost is trying to be like God but denying entry into the presence of God through Jesus Christ. This is to oppress the presence of the Holy Spirit. The entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say is doing exactly that. This entity is building a wall to keep out God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit while setting itself up as God within the body, the temple of God. This entity is the one “… …who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click for a post on the “man of sin”. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through people as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

“If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17

The global culture that welcomes the entity giving them what to think, feel, do, and say are defiling the Holy name of God. They will be consumed in the fury of God’s Holiness, which comes through the events of the Seven Trumpets of Revelation 8, 9, and 11, the Seven Plagues of Revelation 16, and finally the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ. Global warming is the Fourth Plague, and the more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government the more powerful and intense global warming becomes.

God warns Israel to put their harlotry and dead kings far away from Him. “Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.” Ezekiel 43:9

The Old Testament is dead without Jesus Christ, and the Jewish people continue to serve their patriarchs of the times before the coming of Jesus. Without Christ, there is no resurrection of life, and the Jewish people are serving their dead ancestors, the carcasses of kings. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…” Hebrews 1:1-2 Jesus said “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26

God calls the Jewish people to put far away from Him the carcasses of their kings. When they do that, God will live with them eternally through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of that. “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives?
    He lives within my heart.
[Church Hymn]

Repentance is to have awareness of our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Repentance comes by realizing the temple of God is within us. “Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.” Ezekiel 43:10

As seen in the pictures in Ezekiel 41, the description of the temple is awe-inspiring, a magnificent work of construction, and something that would inspire praise to God. Seeing the design of the temple, inspired by God, would be for the purpose of filling the Israelites with hope and bringing them into a right relationship with God. There is also a description of the temple in Ezekiel 45 and also in Ezekiel 47. Actually, Ezekiel chapters 40 thru 48 is all about the Holy City and the Temple of God.

Today, we have been made aware that we are the tabernacle, or temple of God, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 God reveals this to us so that we will be ashamed of our inward sin and come to Jesus Christ for forgiveness. In doing so, He infills us with the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the One and only Minister/Priest of the temple of the Holy Spirit.

“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, “Into John’s baptism.” Acts 19:2-3 John the Baptist said this, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Matthew 3:11 Jesus Christ baptizes us in the Holy Spirit.

The Throne of God is also eternally placed in the New Jerusalem of the new heaven and earth, and is a magnificent place. This is what Revelation 22:1-5 says about what comes from the Temple, where the throne of God is, “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.” This is described in Ezekiel 47

While pictures and the inspired word of God shows us the beauty of Holiness, that is a small glimpse into what is prepared for us in the New Jerusalem, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

Repentance results in awareness of the temple of the Holy Spirit and living for God from there. “ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.” Ezekiel 43:11

While Ezekiel showed the Israelites the design of the temple [Ezekiel 41], we know the temple is not made with human hands. As the Holy Spirit speaks through Paul, “For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17 And again, “…but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.” Hebrews 3:6

When Jesus Christ gave His life on the altar of the Cross to atone for our sin, He opened access into the presence of God. From the moment He gave His last breath, He opened the way for all who believe in Him to come into the presence of the Spirit of God. The veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom, from Heaven down into our soul, so that we can now be the temple of the Holy Spirit. “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” Matthew 27:50-51 The tearing of the veil literally happened in the manmade temple that was in Jerusalem, but it symbolizes much more, as quoted, “At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20

Whoever comes to God through Jesus Christ, ashamed of our sin against Him, He promises to show us the design of the temple, to reveal our body as His temple, as promised, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Revelation 3:20-21

As followers of Jesus Christ, we know the exits and entrances of the temple. The cross of Jesus Christ is the entrance, where we show remorse for our sin, acknowledge belief in God and are open to the presence of the Holy Spirit. The exit is atheism with no belief in God, which leads to scoffing at the need for Jesus Christ, and oppressing the presence of the Holy Spirit. We know the exit sign hangs above the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say as it builds a wall against Jesus Christ. This entity hardens the human spirit and conscience against the Holy Spirit to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through people. The masses of people are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

We know the entire design of the temple and all its laws are established by hearing the Spirit of God from within our spirit and soul, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”  Hebrews 10:16-17

God wants to adorn our body in the magnificence of His Holiness through the Holy Spirit, who comes by living for Jesus Christ. The ordinances and laws which we are to keep are written in us by the Spirit of Christ. While we are the temple of God on this earth through Jesus Christ, there is the “Temple of God” in the Holy City of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. The description can be read in Revelation 21 and Revelation 22.

Repentance is to know the Holiness of the temple of God. “This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.” Ezekiel 43:12

The Holy mountaintop is where the earthly temple had always been located [Mt Moriah], which is known as the Temple Mount. This place was to be considered most Holy. This is the place where king Solomon built the very first temple of God. That temple was destroyed in 597BC. The second temple was built in 516BC then destroyed in 70AD. The temple has never been rebuilt since. However, in its place today, is what is known as the Dome of the Rock which is seen in Jerusalem to this day. This is the golden dome that is built on top of the ruins of the temple that Solomon built, which is the site of the ruins of the second temple. That Dome of the Rock was built in 691AD by the Islamic/Muslim people who conquered Jerusalem. However, in the “Six Day War”, Israel recaptured the Temple Mount, but its management remains in the hands of the Islamic/Muslim” people. Today, the Temple Mount is in East Jerusalem of the West Bank, and no longer in West Jerusalem of Israel.

The temple of God is not made with human hands and is not a place on this earth. There will be no “Third Temple” built on this earth because the New Jerusalem of the new heaven and earth is the place of God’s Temple. Temples of this earth are broken into and destroyed, but the temple of God is not built by human hands and cannot be broken into and destroyed, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21

The “law of the temple” refers to our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit. The whole area of our spirit and soul, surrounding the place where Jesus Christ lives within us, is most Holy. That is the law of the temple, that our body is created by God to be His Holy place. The Holy Spirit in us is the guarantee of our inheritance in the New Jerusalem where the throne of God exists, Ephesians 1:13-14.

Below is a picture of the Dome of the Rock [Golden Dome], which the Islamic/Muslim culture claims as being among the three Muslim holiest sites, it is actually in the third place after Mecca and Medina. When the Israeli army captured the Temple Mount during the Six Day War in 1967, Arik Achmon and Ezra Orni, two Israeli paratroopers, climbed up the Dome of the Rock and hung the Israeli flag on top of it until Moshe Dayan, the then Israeli Defense Minister, ordered it to be taken down, saying, “Do you want to see the Middle East on fire?”

Measurements of the Altar and a picture after being built.
“These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth (24 inches)): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar: from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit. The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth. The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners; the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.” Ezekiel 43:13-17

The altar pictured below is where burnt offerings were made according to the law by the Israelites in the Old Testament. The burnt offerings were offered up to God as the atonement for sin of all the Jewish people. However, those sacrifices did nothing to actually remove sin, if they did then there would have been no need to repeat those sacrifices routinely. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, as the sacrificial Lamb of God to atone for sin, once and for all, as quoted below,

“For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Therefore, when [Jesus] came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’”
Hebrews 10:1-7

God has made Jesus Christ the atonement for sin and our righteousness.
God had set up the law that a sacrifice and shedding of blood was required to make atonement of sin. “And He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord God: ‘These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.” Ezekiel 43:18

From the very beginning of time, since the life of Adam and Eve, God established ordinances that governs the covering of sin by the shedding of blood. When the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened to the nakedness of their sin and disobedience to God, they covered themselves with fig leaves. “…and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.” Genesis 3:7 In the eyes of God, vegetation of this earth is not enough to atone for sin. For that reason, He sacrificed an animal to cover the nakedness of their sin and their disobedience to Him, “Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.” Genesis 3:21

Cain brought God a sacrifice from the vegetation of the earth, but Able brought God the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Ables offering but He did not accept Cain’s, “Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.” Genesis 4:2-5

In this way, God established the ordinances of the sacrifice for the atonement of sin. The shedding of blood was necessary because life is in the blood. All through the Old Testament, the shedding of blood of animals was necessary to atone for the sin of the Israelites. When Jesus Christ came, He was the Lamb of God who shed His blood on the altar of the Cross to atone for sin once and for all, “Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’…By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:5-7, 10

We live in a world today that believes the same way that Adam, Eve, and Cain believed, that sacrifices from this earth are enough to atone for the sin of humanity. The United Nations and its global culture believe that a green new world is the path forward to return to the Garden of Eden on this earth. However, in the offering of their vegetation, they reject the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made on the Cross, and the blood He shed, to atone for sin. They are atheist who do not believe God and they oppress the presence of the Holy Spirit. They need to come to the altar of their soul to have the blood of Jesus Christ sprinkled on their sin to give them hope for the eternal Garden of Eden in the new heaven and earth.

While this present world system offers green sacrifices to heal humanity, global warming is a huge nemesis to them, and is destroying their dream of an earthly Garden of Eden. Global warming is the Fourth Plague in Revelation 16:8-9. The stronger the United Nations becomes as the one world government the more intense global warming becomes.

The masses of the global culture wear the fig leaf of humanism, as they offer their green sacrifices, to cover and appease the entity that gives them what to think, feel, do, and say. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through people as the Lamb of God is tossed aside. The masses of people are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. Humanism is, “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.”

God required a sin offering to enable people to approach Him. “You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,’ says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 43:19

An animal was given to the priests so that they could offer it as a sacrifice for the atonement of sin. The priests were Levites, who always came from the tribe of Levi as the tribe of Levi was specifically designated as the tribe of priests, “The Lord said to Moses, “Bring forward the tribe of Levi…they shall…perform duties for the priests and for the whole community… anyone else who tries to do so shall be put to death.” Numbers 3:5-10 The priests were the only ones considered able to come into the most Holy Place of the manmade temple of God.

Since the coming of Jesus Christ, God made people His temple and Jesus is the only priest over us. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit as Jesus ministers to us within our spirit and soul. If Jesus was on this earth, He would not be a minister within the manmade churches, “For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest…” Hebrews 8:4 “Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood…what further need was there that another priest should rise…? ” Hebrews 7:11

Today, the Levites, known as the Levitical priesthood, represents every minister in every church, synagogue, or any other place of worship. Jesus Christ has replaced each one. There are no ministers able to be head over our spirit and soul, none of them can offer any sacrifice to atone for our sin. Jesus Christ became the sacrificial Lamb of God who gave His life at the altar of the Cross where He poured out His blood to atone for our sin. When Jesus did that, He made it possible for us to come into the presence of God, through Jesus, where our sin is forgiven, and we receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is our Priest, the only minister we will ever need.

For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.” Hebrews 7:26-28

The entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say is not a priest nor minister of any type, but wants to rule over us. This is the entity that wants to sit within our body, the temple of God, as if it is God. This entity is the one “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click for a post on the “man of sin”. This entity wants to replace Jesus Christ as our Priest to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through people in every city around the world. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

God requires the blood of Christ to be on the altar of our soul. “‘You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.” Ezekiel 43:20

The duty of the earthly priests was to use part of the blood of the animal sacrifice to put it on the four horns of the altar. In the picture below, you can see the four horns, which are those four points at each corner. The blood would also be put on the ledge of the four corners and around the entire rim. The idea was that life is in the blood, and by that representation of life, the altar would be cleansed and made fit for offering sacrifices to God. All the instruments had to be purified.

“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Hebrews 9:22

The scribes and Pharisees knew how to prepare the external and manmade altar through ritualistic cleansing, but they didn’t know how to prepare the internal altar of the soul to receive Jesus Christ. Jesus called the scribes and Pharisees blind because they were more concerned about keeping the outside of things cleansed, but within their soul they were spiritually filthy and dead to God. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.” Matthew 23:25

The reason that Jesus Christ shed His blood on the altar of the Cross is because blood represents life. As sinners, we are dead to God but by the shed blood of Jesus Christ we are given life. “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins…” Ephesians 2:1 Jesus willingly shed His blood to cleanse us from sin and give us life.

When we come to God through Jesus Christ, from the altar of our soul, His blood gives us life as we are cleansed from sin. His blood is put on the four corners of our soul and when God sees the blood applied to our heart, He considers us to be cleansed. His judgment passes over us as we are resurrected to eternal life and not to the condemnation of eternal hell. His cleansing and life-giving blood is put not only on all four corners of our soul, but on four corners of the ledge and the rim all around.

The Apostle Peter spoke these words by the Holy Spirit to the followers of Jesus Christ, “…elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ…” 1 Peter 1:2

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
[Church hymn]

God required the sin offering to be burnt outside the sanctuary. “Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.” Ezekiel 43:21

The place for burning the carcass of the animal sacrifice was outside the sanctuary. The sanctuary was considered a Holy place of life and atonement, not a place where dead carcasses would be brought in. At the same time, the blood of the animal sacrifice was brought into the sanctuary to atone for sin. Under the system of Jewish laws, the high priest brought the blood of the slain animals into the sanctuary as a sacrifice for sin, and then the bodies of the animals were burned outside the city. 

When Jesus Christ took sin upon Himself, as He hung on the altar of the Cross as the Lamb of God, He experienced death. In that sense, His body was not within the Holy sanctuary of life and cleansing, but He suffered outside the sanctuary. In that same light, the blood He shed was brought into the sanctuary, our body, to atone for our sin to cleanse us and give us life. “For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.” Hebrews 13:11-12

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
[Church hymn]

God has made Jesus Christ the sanctifier of the altar of our soul. “On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.” Ezekiel 43:22

On the first day, a young bull was given as a sacrifice to purify the altar with some of its blood, its carcass was burned outside the sanctuary, and the remainder of the blood was brought into the sanctuary to atone for the sin of the Israelites. On the second day, the altar was to be cleansed again by the sacrifice of a kid of the goats.

In a sense, the first cleansing of the altar came by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who shed His blood to atone for the sin of whoever believes in Him, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 The second cleansing of the altar can be seen as the altar of our soul when we give our life as a sacrifice to God through Jesus Christ who gives us the Holy Spirit. By His blood we are made clean and given life. We can be called the kids of Jesus Christ, or better said, the children of God, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name…” John 1:12

Jesus Christ said, “ ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.’ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:9-10

God sees us as being righteous through Jesus Christ. “When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.” Ezekiel 43:23

The priests who were following the law cleansed the altar twice, once with the sacrifice of a young bull, then again with the sacrifice of a kid from the goats. Then, the sanctified and cleansed altar is used to sacrifice another young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish.

We can say that the first cleansing of the altar is when Jesus Christ offered Himself upon the altar of the Cross as the atonement made for sin. He did away with the need for earthly ministers and opened the door of the soul and spirit to prepare anyone to come to God through Jesus Christ. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:20 The second cleansing of the altar is when we do not close that open door, but we are open to give our life on the altar of our soul as a living sacrifice to Jesus Christ. After that, the blood of the pure, sinless, and unblemished Lamb of God is sprinkled upon our soul as we are cleansed and sanctified.

Jesus Christ purifies and preserves us day by day.
Jesus Christ has made us the salt of the earth as an offering to the Lord. “When you offer them before the Lord, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.” Ezekiel 43:24

We know today that Jesus Christ has replaced the need for earthly ministers because we go directly to the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ. We are made the temple of the Holy Spirit by the cleansing and sanctifying blood of our Lord Jesus. Salt is a symbol of purification and preservation, so the earthly priests are not the ones who throws salt on us after we offer ourselves to God through Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus is our Priest, our only Minister, who throws the purifying and preserving salt upon our soul and spirit, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Matthew 5:13 Jesus Christ offers us up to God as the salt of the earth.

Jesus Christ has made it possible to walk daily with God. “Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish. Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it. Ezekiel 43:25-26

Before the coming of Jesus Christ, the law of making sacrifices was continual and non-stop, year after year, as described in the procedures from Ezekiel 43:18-27. Today, we walk in the Spirit of God, through Jesus Christ, who gives us the Holy Spirit. We walk with Him twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, without any need to offer anything to Him except our devotion. Jesus Christ is our Priest forever, “For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.” Hebrews 7:26-27

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.” Colossians 2:6-7

Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
[church hymn]

Jesus Christ makes us acceptable to God by being at peace with Him by the forgiveness of sin. “When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,’ says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 43:27

When the Jewish priests finished the rituals of cleansing the altar by sprinkling the blood of an animal on it, then the altar was ready to offer the animal sacrifice for the atonement of sin and also peace offerings. When Jesus Christ shed His blood on the altar of our soul to atone for sin, the peace offering comes with our cleansing. The peace offering is a symbol of being at peace with God through Jesus Christ. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ…” Romans 5:1

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….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11