THE TEMPLE OF GOD
Ephesians 2-21
THE KINGDOM & TEMPLE HAVE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS.
BOTH OPERATE FROM THE SPIRIT REAL
Kingdom Study 5
August 2023
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This work is independent of any existing religions denomination, church, organisation or group. A voice from a wilderness,
correcting wrong Bible understandings, removing false religious traditions, smoothing the way. God's Kingdom plan is logical, pragmatic and perfect
These announcements are specifically directed to individuals members in the world's Christian religions.
THE KINGDOM AND THE TEMPLE
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Discerning persons who study the bible, understand God's Kingdom will administer rulership from the spirit realm with 144,000 appointed Kings. It will contain with in it a heavenly Temple administered by 144,000 Priests. The Kingdom and the Temple have dramatically different functions. This spiritual temple, is exclusively created by God for one unique purpose, to administer human blood sacrifices.
WHY BLOOD SACRIFICES
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From the very beginning of man's history, some 2,500 years before God directed a building to be constructed in which to carry out animal blood sacrifices, He had emphasised the importance of blood sacrifice.
Cain and Abel = God confirmed blood sacrifice was better then other types, Gen 4:3-5.
Noah = After the flood he offered animal blood sacrifices approved by God, Gen 8:20-21.
Abraham = Sacrificed animals and presented them to God obtaining His approval, Gen15:9-10.
WHY DID GOD APPROVE OF ANIMAL BLOOD SACRIFICES?
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"For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have given it on the altar for you to make atonement for yourselves, because it is the blood that makes atonement by means of the life in it" Lev 17:11 (NWT) .
All these animal blood sacrifices were solely illustrative of future unique blood sacrifices God did require. He never wanted animals to be sacrificed for their own sake, they in themselves contained no value. These sacrifices were solely to focus man's attention on the need for the all important human blood sacrifices that God required. Jesus confirmed the reason why God required human blood sacrifices, they would be needed to restore his original plans for project earth. Essential to enable the removal of mankind's inherited death causing disease and resurrect all the billions of dead humans.
" the Law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the very substance of the things, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make those who approach perfect. Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have stopped being offered, because those rendering sacred service once cleansed would have no consciousness of sins any more? On the contrary, these sacrifices are a reminder of sins year after year, for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take sins away.
So when he (Jesus) comes into the world, he says: “‘Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but you prepared a body for me. You did not approve of whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.’ Then I said: ‘Look! I have come to do your will, God.’” After first saying: “You did not want nor did you approve of sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings”—sacrifices that are offered according to the Law (Mosaic law) — then he says: “Look! I have come to do your will.” He does away with what is first in order to establish what is second. By this “will” we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time" Heb 10:1-10 (NWT) .
HUMAN BLOOD SACRIFICES
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To emphasise the need for special human blood sacrifices Yhwh directed the construction of a sacrificing facility, to constantly remind the Israelite nation the need for special unique blood sacrifices. Details of its design were given to Moses who constructed the Tabernacle, later rebuilt as Solomon's Temple and then Herod's Temple all following the same design pattern. These buildings were abattoirs for administering the slaughter of animals and presenting them to God. The priests were butchers of these animals to be offered as sacrifices. They did not bleed them they remained whole, unlike animals killed for food which were all bled (Kosher). God provided this Temple to illustrate He would require unique human blood sacrifices to be presented to him within a heavenly temple. This temple in heaven, God started to build, using his only begotten Son as a first unique human blood sacrifice, upon which He would purchase 144,000 additional human blood sacrifices. All these sacrifices to be applied exclusively for the benefit of mankind. But how?
AN ILLUSTRATIVE PRIESTHOOD PATTERN
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Part of God's pattern was how He formed a priesthood at the time of Moses. Illustrating the future forming of a unique first reborn human priesthood. In Egypt, Moses passed on specific instructions dictated by God. God instructed the Israelites to use the blood of a sacrificed lamb, in order to save all the first born Israelite males from being killed, while the angel of death killed all the Egyptian first born males. By painting the outside door posts of their houses with the blood of a sacrificed lamb. Creating a protective flag, causing the ‘angel of death’ to hold back from inflicting death on any firstborn male Israelites inside. These preserved alive first born males were claimed by God as His property and belonged to Him. “Set apart for me the first boy born in every family. The oldest son of every Israelite mother belongs to me” “you must buy back every firstborn son” Exodus 13:2,13 (NLT).
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The 22,273 first born sons preserved alive that night, were exchanged, man for man with males of the tribe of Levi, a purchase price was levied for any extra ones the Levites could not supply sufficient males to cover, paid to the Levites.
“I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine, for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel,” Numbers 3:12-13 (NIV). By this decree all 22,273 first born males saved were transferred by God into priests by replacement or ransom payment. "Then Jehovah said to Moses: “Register all the firstborn males of the Israelites ... You must take the Levites for me ..in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, .. Moses then registered all the firstborn among the Israelites, just as God had commanded him. The number of all the firstborn males who were registered by name from a month old and up was 22,273"."Jehovah continued to speak to Moses, saying: “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites must become mine. I am Jehovah. The ransom price for the 273 of the firstborn of the Israelites who are in excess of the Levites, you are to take five shekels for each individual,.. You are to give the money to Aaron and his sons as the ransom price of those who are in excess of them.” So Moses took the money of the redemption price for those who were in excess of the Levites as a ransom price. He took the money from the firstborn of the Israelites, 1,365 shekels, .. Then Moses gave the money of the ransom price to Aaron and his sons, .. just as Jehovah had commanded Moses" Numbers 3:40-51 (NWT)
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All Israelite first born sons saved by the blood of the sacrificed lamb were claimed by Yhwh as belonging to Him and He had them exchanged into priests. These events were crafted to form a pattern illustrating what God would do in transferring a far larger group of “firstborn” ones into priests by a purchasing system.
SPIRITUAL TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS.
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The illegal death, of a human Son of God while loyal to God without sin, could by the laws of justice, be applied to counter balance the effects of mankind's inherited death disease infection, incurred by a human Son of God disloyalty to God. But, where could a sinless man be found who had not inherited the death disease? Non of all the billions of humans would qualify. God provided the solution, a means of providing a second sinless human being.
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Achieved by the transference of an uncorrupted life force from the spirit kind realm, metamorphosed into human kind, through a miraculous birth. The only human born, since Adam, uncontaminated with this death disease. He was thus born with the equal potential of inheritable perpetual human life, as Adam originally had and lost. This life force was sacrificed in order to counter humanity’s inherited terminal ageing disease. Christ’s sacrificed sinless life can be used by God to initiate the means to provide a complete and permanent cure to all human ageing and death throughout the generations who have suffered its effects, “For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead. For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life” 1 Cor 15:21-22 (BBE). "(Jesus) gave himself a ransom for all, to be witnessed in due time” 1 Timothy 2:6 (NWT). Just as all humans descendants of Adams family inherit his death dealing deficiencies so all humans can choose to become offspring of Jesus family inheriting, continual life, ref inherited original sin.
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The sacrificial passover lamb that saved first born Israelite males in Egypt, previewed Jesus as the sacrificed passover lamb, used to pay the ransom redemption price to purchase 144,000 to be transformed into firstborn, priests. "The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said: “See, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29 (NWT), ref see original sin. "The wages of sin is death", take away sin you take away death.
FIRST SACRIFICED HUMAN LIFE
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Jesus on his return to heaven carried the value of his human blood sacrifice to the throne position of God, presenting its value to Yhwh on His altar to obtain its evaluated power. Yhwh has commissioned the construction of a functioning temple arrangement in heaven with an altar arrangement for Him to receive the presentation of the lives sacrificed of His human Sons. Jesus presents the first acceptable sacrifice. Its purchasing power weighed and exchanged for thousands of expensive adoption papers, to buy a rebirth for a 144,000, to the status of firstborn Sons of God, converting them into priests.
"Just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned... But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by one man’s trespass many died, how much more did the undeserved kindness of God and his free gift by the undeserved kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to many!"
"Also, it is not the same with the free gift as with the way things worked through the one man (Adam) who sinned. For the judgment after one trespass was condemnation, but the gift after (their) many trespasses was a declaration of righteousness. .. So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, so too through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is their being declared righteous for life".
"For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one person many will be made righteous. .. So that just as sin ruled as king with death, so also undeserved kindness might rule as king through righteousness leading to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord" Rom 5:12-21 (NWT) .
WAY OPENED TO PRESENT SACRIFICED LIVES TO GOD IN HEAVEN
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With this power Jesus was able to purchase 144,000 humans to be reborn sin cleansed creations for adoption as Gods posession , converted into a priesthood. "For if we live, we live to Jehovah, and if we die, we die to Jehovah. So both if we live and if we die, we belong to Jehovah",Roman 14:8 (NWT). As was previewed when a new Israelite priesthood was converted from firstborn male Israelites in Egypt. God was illustrating a pattern of how He would use a 'Lamb of God' to purchase firstborn ones for converting into a unique priesthood, who would render special blood sacrifices to be used to countermand mankind's substandard (sinful) condition by cancelling inherited Adamic sin that kills all humans. "The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said: “See, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29 (NWT).
God required 144,000, initially substandard humans carrying inherited sin. They needed an expensive washing to cleanse them of their inherited Adamic death dealing contamination, along with their own personal sins (see original sin). The need to be elevated to God's acceptable standard was achieved by purchasing with spirit power a rebirth as new sin cleansed creations. Only then could God adopt these new creations as members into His family, as His 'Sons'. This cleansing originally symbolised by the water washing basin in the original temple courtyard. "The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin", 1 John 1:7 (NWT) .
“You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, for you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought people for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth.” Rev 5:9-10 (NWT).
"if one becomes an anointed, he is a fresh creation; the former self has passed, it has become renewed" 2 Cor 5:17, (W & H english JDS)
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Exactly 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection, on the festival day of Pentecost, God’s adoption power bought by Jesus in the form of the holy spirit was poured out upon the first 120, disciples of Jesus gathered together in Jerusalem. They became the first of a total of 144,000 to become firstborn 'Sons of God', anointed to serve as a holy priesthood in God's Temple arrangement. As previewed by the appointing of a priesthood by covenant under Moses, each saved by the blood of a 'lamb'. They enter into a covenant agreeing to offer up their lives as sacrifices, as Jesus had. Once accomplished their sacrificial deaths, would at God's appointed time' be presented to Him for conversion also into resurrecting power through the spiritual temple arrangement.
"You come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen, precious to God, you yourselves as living stones are being built up into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, in order to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ," 1 Peter 2:4-5.
"You are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for special possession, that you should declare abroad the excellencies” of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. For you were once not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not been shown mercy, but now you have received mercy" 1 Peter 2:9-10 (NWT).
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Once these undergo dedication water baptism as Jesus did, they are brought into union with the Father and the Son through Jesus purchasing Holy Spirit power. They sign into the Kingdom blood contract. With God's approval they became eligible to serve in the symbolic Holy compartment while living on earth. Only after Yhwh has granted approval, these individuals can be born again and have their minds opened for assimilating this knowledge. "Then he (Jesus) opened up their minds fully to grasp the meaning of the Scriptures" Luke:24:45. "The holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things" John 14:26 (NWT). To the rest of mankind it is hidden. "However, they (the rest of mankind) did not get the meaning of any of these things, for these words were hidden from them, and they did not understand the things said" Luke 18:34 (NWT) .
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The approved ones are provided a special direct communication line, a personal prayer communicator, represented by the Altar of Incense in the Holy compartment of the model temple. “The incense means the heard prayers of the holy ones.” Rev 5:8 (NWT). Their prayers become a unique communication link with God through Jesus covering their commissioned work serving Kingdom interests before they die sacrificial deaths. This spirit teaches them and clarifies to them all the things they needed to know. For the first 10 years between 33 and c43 they had no 'new testament' writings, the first Gospel of Matthew was not penned until c43. They were not reliant on these writings as the spirit impressed in their minds knowledge on Kingdom matters and so all were in harmony of understanding. They are reserved as living building stones for the spiritual temple.
"Christ Jesus himself is the foundation cornerstone. In union with him the whole building, being harmoniously joined together, is growing into a holy temple for Jehovah. In union with him you too are being built up together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit" Ephesians 2:20-22 (NWT) .
EACH AGREES TO A SACRIFICIAL DEATH
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Each of the tens of thousands recruited and gathered during the period between 33 and 70AD, are fed new 'life sustenance' from the blood of Christ. Having agreed the terms of the Kingdom contract, in which God requires them to consent to allowing their newly created sinless lives to be offered in sacrifice to death, as Jesus life was. They will have undergone the baptism into Jesus death. Once their individual sacrifices have been accomplished they qualify to carry out the administering roll and position of acting Priests of God. At the 'appointed time' they will be resurrected to heaven as spirit Angels, able to apply the value of their own sacrificed bodies to bring rebirth resurrections to others, ref. Baptism into Jesus death.
"Can you drink the cup that I am drinking or be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized?” They said to him: “We can.” At that Jesus said to them: “The cup I am drinking, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am being baptized (death), you will be baptized" Mark 10:38-39 (NWT) .
"Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? So we were buried with him through our baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in a newness of life. If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection" Romans 6:3-5 (NWT).
Each of these tens of thousands recruited and gathered during the period between 33 and 70, God requires to submit their lives to be taken in sacrifice, as Jesus life was.
ENOUGH SACRIFICIAL POWER TO RESURRECT ALL MANKIND
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When resurrected to Spirit-beings, as Jesus was, in April 2029 (ref. Second John the Baptist) they too can enter the throne position of God through the symbolic curtain separating the Holy from the Most Holy compartment. The value of their blood sacrifice weighed and exchanged for power. With this massive conglomerate power of 144,001 sacrificed lives they will able to purchase for every person that has ever lived and died, a rebirth using the mechanism of resurrection. At the time Jesus left the earth after his resurrection, angels said to an on looking group of his disciples who would receive this rebirth "Galilaian men, the one you are standing looking at entering heaven, this Jesus the one who has been taken from you to the one in heaven, after this one you will follow in like manner, in order to see him, by transferring to the one in heaven" Acts 1:11 (W&H english JDS).
At God's appointed time thousands of these building blocks will be added to Jesus first building stone laid in the spiritual temple. They will became priests in a holy priesthood, offering their spiritual sacrifices as Jesus has on the alter within God’s spiritual temple arrangement. Once their sacrificial deaths accomplished they wait in death sleep as Jesus did, but for some 2,000 years, until the appointed time for their resurrection to Angel beings in April 2029. All 144,001 priests will compound sufficient purchasing power to resurrect all the billions of dead mankind who have died throughout all the generations of man's history. But at present it is still work in progress, the temple is still not complete, the number of priests required to serve in the Temple, 144,000, were not all collected during the first century. Since then no further ones have been sealed, the first century recruiting period ended in 70AD before the full number required had been attained. Interrupted by the world Apostasy, no further recruiting was going to take place for the next 1,960 years, ref. how to resurrect 20 billion.
To this point the Temple building had achieved.
1) Its first human Sacrifice, Jesus as its High Priest.
2) Tens of thousands of sacrificed anointed Priests between 33 and 70.
More building is required in order to complete this Temple.
TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION SUSPENDED FOR 1,960 YEARS.
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By the end of the first century, these conveyors of true theocratic knowledge were all dead. The first 'presence' period of Jesus Christ had come to its end, the period of spirit assisted knowledge was over. The world Apostasy had taken over which would continue until Jesus second presence.
"Concerning the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, .. Let no one lead you astray in any way, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. He stands in opposition And now you know what is acting as a restraint (the Apostles), so that he will be revealed in his own due time. True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who is right now acting as a restraint is out of the way. Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing at the manifestation of his (2nd) presence" 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NWT).
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According to 2 Thessalonians 2:8, this Apostasy period would not come to an end until Christ exposed it at the 'manifestation of his second presence'. Following 70AD there is no evidence that any further recruiting of potential King/Priests has taken place. During this Apostasy it has developed into the world wide system of Christendom. The hold of this Apostasy we are informed will not end until it is exposed some 2,000 years later at the time for Jesus second presence activity, in October 2029, exactly 2,000 years after Jesus first association presence started late in 29AD. "The Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring it to nothing at the manifestation of his ) presence" 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NWT).
Further information See 1. THE ANTICHRIST, APOSTASY 2. APOSTASY AND CREED DOCTRINES 3. THE PROTESTANT FIRST AWAKENING.
SACRIFICES REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE TEMPLE
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The remaining number required to complete the 144,000 will be prepared by a second John the Baptist between April 2026 and April 2029 then sealed by dedication baptism into Christ's death between April to October 2029 when they sign into the Kingdom contract. From October 2029 these will be assisted during the second presence period of Jesus in completing their three and a half year assignments and then undergo sacrificial deaths. This time these will not have to wait 2,000 years in death sleep before they are resurrected. They will be transposed into spirit beings by a resurrection just three and a half days after they die, in March 2033, harvested into heaven to join their first century brothers. These will be the final king/priests making up the 144,000 number. See THE EARLY AND LATE RAIN? James 5:7.
Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We (144,000) will not all sleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed. 1 Cor 15:51 (NWT). Ref LAZARUS PATTERN.
"When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar (in heaven) the souls of those slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the witness they had given. They shouted with a loud voice, saying: “Until when, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, are you refraining from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” And a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the number was filled of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they had been", Rev 6:9-11 (NWT) .
After these first century members of the 144,000 are resurrected by April 2029 they are told to wait while the number is filled who were about to be killed as they had been.
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When these 144,000 priests are resurrected they will enjoy immortal lives as Angels in Spirit bodies, death can no longer have power over them. These last ones will also directly present the value of their individual blood sacrifices to their God Yhwh. Through the symbolic curtain separating the Holy compartment from the Most Holy compartment at His heavenly throne within the true temple arrangement. When they too will exchange with God the value of their blood sacrifices for power. This massive conglomerate power of 144,001 sacrificed lives is able to effect the purchase of every person that has ever lived and died a second opportunity to come back to life by the mechanism of resurrection.
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According to the Kingdom timetable these final Priests will start to be recruited in 2029. Will you be one of these last ones of the 144,000, who the Father draws? Only those granted by the Father can come into union with Jesus. Will you volunteer to be one of these called out of darkness into his wonderful light and handed to Jesus? Are you prepared to sacrifice your life?
Once the recruiting has been accomplished, and all 144,000 have been resurrected, the spiritual temple is completed. At God appointed times the power gained from God bought by the human blood sacrifices of 144,001 priests will be used to bring back to life by the mechanism of resurrection, all the billions of humans that have died throughout the generations of mankind. They will be provided a second opportunity to life on earth but this time with pristine physical human bodies, and the prospect of becoming members of Yhwh's family enjoying continual life.
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The 144,001 Priesthood through the temple arrangement will administer the healing and curing strength received from their sacrificial deaths, countering the effects on these first earthly citizens of their inherited Adam's disease. They will have physically pristine bodies, non of these will ever need to die from the ageing process. The Priests will heal them and assist them in elevating them to live by Gods standards and eventually adoption into His family. "And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of its main street. On both sides of the river were trees of life producing crops of fruit, yielding their fruit each month. And the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations"., Rev 22:1- 2 (NWT).