Is the Court of the Gentiles a bad place to be?

[visionary]

Because Talmidim said these very same things to me please allow me to respond once more to this. These things are answered in the circumcision not made with hands. Peter is speaking not just to "Jewish believers" (or at least how this statement is understood so often in modern times) but rather the epistle is to "the Circumcision". No one enters into the inner court, even in the supernal, (no matter what he or she claims) without being circumcised, (whether male or female) because this circumcision is of the foreskin of the heart. Modern thinking has reverted to thinking that whenever circumcision is spoke of in the writings it always refers to physical circumcision unless otherwise clearly stated. However this is not true and in fact more likely the exact opposite such as in the following example:

Galatians 2:9 KJV
9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

This "circumcision" at the end of the verse above does not mean people born of Jewish lineage by their mothers' DNA but rather those circumcised into the inner court of the Tabernacle-Temple of above, (Jews by the faith of the Jews, for the Father saves the tents of Judah first, and salvation is unto the Jew first, and salvation is of the Jews). Both of my circumcisions occurred in the eighth day: the first I do not remember, and I count it no more now than I would an infant baptism. However the second circumcision I will surely never forget!

Shalom in Yeshua.

With the tie in between the circumcision and the eighth day.. I got to thinking about the eighth day after Sukkot... also a prophetic time when those of the covenant will be reunited in His return. These people will most definitely be circumcised in heart, a peculiar people, a holy priesthood, the saints, resurrected, and changed from mortal to immortal.

 

[Messianic Jewboy]

Because Talmidim said these very same things to me please allow me to respond once more to this. These things are answered in the circumcision not made with hands. Peter is speaking not just to "Jewish believers" (or at least how this statement is understood so often in modern times) but rather the epistle is to "the Circumcision". No one enters into the inner court, even in the supernal, (no matter what he or she claims) without being circumcised, (whether male or female) because this circumcision is of the foreskin of the heart. Modern thinking has reverted to thinking that whenever circumcision is spoke of in the writings it always refers to physical circumcision unless otherwise clearly stated. However this is not true and in fact more likely the exact opposite such as in the following example:

Galatians 2:9 KJV
9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

This "circumcision" at the end of the verse above does not mean people born of Jewish lineage by their mothers' DNA but rather those circumcised into the inner court of the Tabernacle-Temple of above, (Jews by the faith of the Jews, for the Father saves the tents of Judah first, and salvation is unto the Jew first, and salvation is of the Jews). Both of my circumcisions occurred in the eighth day: the first I do not remember, and I count it no more now than I would an infant baptism. However the second circumcision I will surely never forget!

Shalom in Yeshua.

You're using one Epistle against the other out of context. Galatians was written to Gentiles. As a Jew although I should listen to Galatians for sound teaching, it doesn't apply to me as a Jewish believer.

 

[daq]

With the tie in between the circumcision and the eighth day.. I got to thinking about the eighth day after Sukkot... also a prophetic time when those of the covenant will be reunited in His return. These people will most definitely be circumcised in heart, a peculiar people, a holy priesthood, the saints, resurrected, and changed from mortal to immortal.

You do realize that the Master cut the Week in half in John 7:14?

John 7:2-14 KJV
2. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3. His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4. For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5. For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6. Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
7. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
8. Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
9. When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10. But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11. Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12. And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
13. Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14. Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

In the Great Day the Father through Messiah calls every man, woman, and child to enter his Kingdom:

John 7:37-38 KJV
37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Regardless of when each of us hears the call to enter into the Yeshua faithfulness we all effectively heard it in the same Great Day wherein it was spoken. This is not a circumcision by the altars of man at the foot of their podiums with their altar calls and tearful emotional sinners prayers, (for in that day one is but sealed unto the Great Day of the buyback-purchase-redemption and receiving of the promise, and the Father foreknows the heart, whether or not repentance was sincere in that day). If and when the circuit is completed there remain therefore three days and the hemisu to fulfill the Week:

There will be blood, fire, pillars of smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

 

[daq]

You're using one Epistle against the other out of context. Galatians was written to Gentiles. As a Jew although I should listen to Galatians for sound teaching, it doesn't apply to me as a Jewish believer.

It is an example showing that the same theme is relevant and coherent throughout. As I said previously, (imho) the entire volume of the Book is written to the All Yisrael of the Great Husbandman. But fair enough, I will leave it here as this is your OP thread.

 

[Yahudim]

Shalom Marc,

I think you are mistaken, but it is an honest mistake. It is important to note that Hosea (which Peter quotes) was a prophet to the Northern Kingdom. In Peter's letter, including the salutation, he was addressing the former Israelites that were living with the Goyim in the diaspora; the 'lost sheep' to which Messiah referred. But this is not the diaspora of the Jews that came about in 132-135 CE. It is the former diasporas to which he refers. This group probably includes both Assyrian exiles and some of the Babylonian captives that did not return and subsequently lost their identity.

These people Peter addresses were former Israelites and perhaps Judeans, that had been living with the Goyim for many generations. They were rejected by the Jews because they had no genealogy preserved in the Temple. I believe his audience was a mixed group. To the leadership of the Jews, all groups unable to prove their linage would be considered proselytes and would have to worship in the Court of the Goyim.

Context is key. Peter was preaching to Jewish believers not non Jews.

The Epistle begins...

To God’s chosen people, living as aliens in the Diaspora — in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bythinia

 

[Messianic Jewboy]

Shalom Marc,

I think you are mistaken, but it is an honest mistake. It is important to note that Hosea (which Peter quotes) was a prophet to the Northern Kingdom. In Peter's letter, including the salutation, he was addressing the former Israelites that were living with the Goyim in the diaspora; the 'lost sheep' to which Messiah referred. But this is not the diaspora of the Jews that came about in 132-135 CE. It is the former diasporas to which he refers. This group probably includes both Assyrian exiles and some of the Babylonian captives that did not return and subsequently lost their identity.

These people Peter addresses were former Israelites and perhaps Judeans, that had been living with the Goyim for many generations. They were rejected by the Jews because they had no genealogy preserved in the Temple. I believe his audience was a mixed group. To the leadership of the Jews, all groups unable to prove their linage would be considered proselytes and would have to worship in the Court of the Goyim.

There were plenty of Jews living in the Diaspora and even James addresses them. Yes there was contention between the Jews in the Land and the Diaspora Jews but both are considered Jews.

Now you're going into 2 House?

 

[annier]

Keep an open mind Sis. Remember Ezekiel!

I hope my mind is open . But so far I think this might be one of those areas of disagreement.

 

[annier]

You're using one Epistle against the other out of context. Galatians was written to Gentiles. As a Jew although I should listen to Galatians for sound teaching, it doesn't apply to me as a Jewish believer.

I agree with much of what you are saying BUT....
I am curious Marc. Why doesn't Galatians apply to you because you are Jewish??

 

[Messianic Jewboy]

I agree with much of what you are saying BUT....
I am curious Marc. Why doesn't Galatians apply to you because you are Jewish??

The applications per se are applied to non Jews as the Epistle was written to non Jews/G-d fearers. An example would be about not getting circumcision. I'm circumcised already so the application isn't directed to me. This doesn't mean I should disregard Galatians.

 

[etZion]

There are no provisions.

There absolutely are. Concerning both the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants, there are provision for gentiles coming into these covenants with God, and we have historically, millions of gentiles doing exactly that, and you say "for no reason at all", don't you think that is a bit of a strange claim, if gentiles have no need or purpose for coming into covenant with God, then why make it available, even encouraging it (Deut 4). As you said in paraphrase, there is no necessity for a gentile to join the covenant, and there is no requirement. You skirted around this issue by trying to use Naaman as an example of a gentile without a covenant relationship with God and yet God working with Naaman in his miraculous healing.

The likes of Naaman, even though Naaman believed in the One True G-d he wouldn't have been able to eat the Passover. This applies to Titus as well, a G-d Fearer and also Cornelius.

Correct, to further your argument here, since I completely agree with you, only a gentile who is in covenant would be responsible to eating the Passover. Gentiles who are not in covenant relationship with God, have no responsibility to a covenant they never agreed to join. However if Titus and Cornelius came into covenant, all they would need to do, is commit to the commandment of circumcision to eat the Passover.

But with that said, this doesn't address the issue. Go back and deal with what I wrote to you, specifically...

 

[Messianic Jewboy]

There absolutely are. Concerning both the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants, there are provision for gentiles coming into these covenants with God, and we have historically, millions of gentiles doing exactly that, and you say "for no reason at all", don't you think that is a bit of a strange claim, if gentiles have no need or purpose for coming into covenant with God, then why make it available, even encouraging it (Deut 4). As you said in paraphrase, there is no necessity for a gentile to join the covenant, and there is no requirement. You skirted around this issue by trying to use Naaman as an example of a gentile without a covenant relationship with God and yet God working with Naaman in his miraculous healing.



Correct, to further your argument here, since I completely agree with you, only a gentile who is in covenant would be responsible to eating the Passover. Gentiles who are not in covenant relationship with God, have no responsibility to a covenant they never agreed to join. However if Titus and Cornelius came into covenant, all they would need to do, is commit to the commandment of circumcision to eat the Passover.

But with that said, this doesn't address the issue. Go back and deal with what I wrote to you, specifically...

There are many non Jews who are in covenant with God but you're referring to the Mosaic covenant which isn't necessary for non Jews to come into.

The Abrahamic covenant says all nations will be blessed which doesn't have to do with the Mosaic law.

So yes Naaman didn't have to be under the Mosaic law for God to miraculously heal him. In fact he didn't have to get circumcised, he took loads of soil back to his home land and was even given a 'pass' of his concern of worshipping an idol with his king.

 

[etZion]

There are many non Jews who are in covenant with God but you're referring to the Mosaic covenant which isn't necessary for non Jews to come into.

On what basis are you determining what is necessary, is the Abrahamic covenant necessary and why? I just want to see the logic in your deciding what is necessary and what is not.

The Abrahamic covenant says all nations will be blessed which doesn't have to do with the Mosaic law.

The Abrahamic covenant is interwoven in the Mosaic covenant, in fact without the Mosaic covenant, part of the promises in the Abrahamic covenant are not fulfilled.

So yes Naaman didn't have to be under the Mosaic law for God to miraculously heal him.

This fails to address the issues we are talking about. God used Nebuchadnezzar for his purposes as well, and he never turned from his idols to worship the One true God.

In fact he didn't have to get circumcised, he took loads of soil back to his home land and was even given a 'pass' of his concern of worshipping an idol with his king.

Marc, first of all, the only reason he would need to get circumcised is if he joined the covenant, second, he did not get a pass to worship idols, LOL, that is the worst interpretation of that verse that I think I have ever heard. Actually I have heard Christians use this verse to say that it is okay to participate in idol worship. Not only does the Apostolic Writings forbid it, even the the commandments given to Noah forbid it, and you are saying this verse means he has a free pass to worship idols, going against God's word... again LOL.

 

[HannibalFlavius]

There are many non Jews who are in covenant with God but you're referring to the Mosaic covenant which isn't necessary for non Jews to come into.

The Abrahamic covenant says all nations will be blessed which doesn't have to do with the Mosaic law.

So yes Naaman didn't have to be under the Mosaic law for God to miraculously heal him. In fact he didn't have to get circumcised, he took loads of soil back to his home land and was even given a 'pass' of his concern of worshipping an idol with his king.

A New Covenant
31"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.


Gentiles have no covenant, the covenant is between Israel and Judah, if you are not of Israel and Judah, the new covenant does not apply to you.


The law, the prophets and the promises stand without any New Testament.

The New covenant is not for gentiles.

 

[HannibalFlavius]

The gentiles are shown in many of the future prophecies, they are shown gathering the wealth of the world, and their kings bring the wealth of the world to the feet of Israel.

They are rewarded for bringing the children of Israel back to their land like a priest would offer and offering.

 

[Yahudim]

Hi Marc,

Two House? Marc, I had no idea that you were a Two House proponent! I presume that you are because you brought it up. Why else would you do that? I certainly didn't say anything about it. Nice try.

Chaver, you have a bad habit of ignoring what you don't wish to acknowledge. You often change the subject when it gets difficult to defend your position. Your responses have been one or two lines that often state a view without explaining it. If all you have is opinion, why do you bother to discuss?

Yes there were Jews. That is hardly the point. There weren't JUST Jews. Do you think that the '...lost sheep of the house of Israel' means just Jews? Or do you think that Y'shua was a 'Two House' proponent? Do you think that there might be more than just Jews living as aliens (read: just like the Goyim) in the diaspora? Do you think that Y'shua might have conveyed that particular calling (to the lost sheep e.g. the scattered tribes) to His Apostles? I'm thinking yes.

Which 'diaspora' do you think Peter was addressing? Since the Jews had not been scattered out of the land at the time of this writing; I'm thinking it was the earlier ones, like the Babylonian and Assyrian diasporas. So I'm thinking this probably includes Israelites of both the Northern and Southern kingdoms that had been separated from their brethren, as I said in my post. I'm also pretty sure that Peter's reference to Hosea was a dead giveaway that he was addressing Northern tribe descendants too. Why bring up that prophecy if his point wasn't that it was being fulfilled in Messiah? None that I know. How about you?

There are (I'm guessing) ten or twelve questions in this post plus a number of logical assertions. Let's do something different, just for fun. Try addressing them directly and offer some type of logic, historical proof and/or scripture to reinforce your view. Anyone can spout opinions. Everyone has one. I already know yours. Now tell us how you came to those conclusions, OK?

Blessings,
Phillip

There were plenty of Jews living in the Diaspora and even James addresses them. Yes there was contention between the Jews in the Land and the Diaspora Jews but both are considered Jews.

Now you're going into 2 House?

 

[visionary]

The place to be is in the spiritual temple of God's protection Rev 11:1 where you are marked.

Psalm 27:5
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

 

[HannibalFlavius]

John the Baptist was never sent to Jews, neither was Elijah.

The mission of Elijah had nothing to do with Jews.


John's mission was to the land of Naphtali and Zebulun, not Jews.

A light was seen in the land of Naphtali and Zebulun, but it was not seen by Jews.


John the Baptist did not attend to Jews, his banner stood for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and they were to be redeemed back into Israel through a redeeming marriage of a Jew. They had been scattered in the nations and became gentiles.

 

[visionary]

The bronze laver and bronze altar were located in the outer court. These two objects found in the outer court are the first two things that are needed a sinner approaching God need in their lives. The outer court represents Those things done outside ourselves, that prepare the way for God to work inside ourselves.

It is important to remember that in Revelation it talks about the outer court and the fact that it is not included in the measurement of God’s Temple. In the outer court there was something significant about to happen in this area of God’s work for our salvation but it only the introductory step.

Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the Holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

 

[visionary]

The outer court is the place we all spiritually went when we first experienced our first love. The bronze altar in the outer court was 7.5 feet square and 4.5 feet high, was made of acacia wood overlaid with bronze, and had a horn on each corner. The fire on the altar was to be kept burning at all times and the daily sacrifices were offered in the morning and afternoon. Here a repentant sinner who believed in the One True God would bring in a little year old lamb without blemish to be sacrificed for their sins. They had to be there laying their hand on the little lambs head confessing their sins and then watch
the life of the little lamb sacrificed in their place. So altar of burnt offering, worked on their imagination, burning the dreadfulness of sin, and the final consequences of sin and the sinner into their heart. It was telling them as it should be telling you “You should have died for the sins that you have committed.”

Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

Sin separates you from God. Without God, you cease to exist. How far can you go away from God and live? We are so far from God, that we can not see Him. We are so far from God that we often wonder if He truly exists. God knows that is the way you feel sometimes. It is sin that is separating you from Him. God has no desire for you to feel this way about Him. God has prepared a way, to take sin, the stumbling block that separates you from Him out of the way.

Isaiah 57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.

He knew that this would happen when we wander to far away from Him. He laid out a plan, that would bring us back to Him in the only way that it can be done.

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

The Temple services in the outer court are the first introductions that a sinner has to how God is going to reconcile man with Himself. Since sin can not exist in the presence of God and without God, we would cease to exist. There has to be a way made for God to save the sinner. There was a way provided that sin can be separated from the sinner. It involved sacrifice. Out of love, Yeshua volunteered before we were even created, before the foundation of the world..

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

That outer court experience is a cry to the soul saying "Come close to God and see that He is good. Come closer to God and see that He is your only hope of salvation. Come closer to God and find the emptiness in your heart can only be filled with God. God is what is missing in your life. Without God, you become critical, cruel and bitter. You see everything in a harsh manner. You may not even realize how horrible you are or are becoming."

1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

We are created as a Holy Temple of God in which God should dwell. We are made to have God dwell within us. We did not feel whole until we let Him into our life in a real and enduring sincere way. Those with the tender heart and repentant spirit, will see the need to not sin any more, and pray that they will not. Sin cripples, and slowly destroys you. Sin set us up to die. We need to also see that we are to sin no more.

John 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Yeshua saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8 Yeshua saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Yeshua had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.14 Afterward Yeshua findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Without God, we are spiritually dead. There is more than one death. These two deaths, a spiritual and physical death, Yeshua died each in turn.

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Yeshua cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

This is where Yeshua took into his pure lovely spirit the fallen sinful nature of us all which separated Him from His Holy Father. The spiritual death came at this spiritual separation from His Holy Father. He drank into Himself who we were and, instead of saying, "My Father", He said, "My God, My God why have you forsaken me"? Yeshua was crying out in our place because God had forsaken Him who became sin for us. This was an unfair trade, one we will never be able to repay.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Sin had separated the Son from the Father. It was devastating for both the Father and the Son to be separated for the first time in all of eternity. We probably will not truly understand the incredible sacrifice our God did in dying for us until we sit at His feet and learn from Him the immense sacrifice God made. This type of devotion that God has for us, to send His Only Begotten Son to die for us, that we may live, is beyond anything that we have experience here on earth.

1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

For a lot of us, there has been no one that has loved us with that much love and devotion. Now we have a glimmer that God loves us, more than we truly understand. What love. What undeserving deep abiding selfless love. God’s true character shines forth with every breath He took on this earth.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

In verse fifty of Matthew twenty-seven you can read about the physical death. Yeshua "cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit." giving up His life for us became the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin."

Love can get no greater than that, for someone else to die in our place. God’s purpose is to separate us from sin, and so that we have a way to be free from being slaves to sin. We can die to the old ways and live a new life in Christ. A way has been prepared for us to live a new life with God. God will impart into our heart with the removal of sin, a new start. A new beginning, that is also given strength and vigor from His Holy Spirit to live a godly life.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God,
which He hath purchased with His own blood.

People who read the scriptures, before Christ died, did not understand all the wisdom of God in the temple service performed daily in the outer court yard but they did understand that the lamb was dying in their place. Though they had been told, they did not see that God himself would provide the Lamb to be condemned and put to death because of our sins.

Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

We, today understand that Yeshua is the Lamb of God.

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Yeshua coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

The altar of burnt offering was where the drama was played out, a shadow of Yeshua Christ, our sacrifice. This drama is played out in your heart every day. Daily these sacrifices of your heart are your loving services to God.

Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Just as the unblemished animals were sacrificed with the laying on of hands and the shedding of its blood, Yeshua Christ came to us as the Son of God and bore the condemnation of all our sins. Just as the sacrificial offerings were to take on all sins through the laying on of hands and confession and then their blood shed, He accepted all the sins of the world passed onto Him and bore the condemnation of these sins by shedding His blood on the cross. In this way, the altar of burnt offering is the altar of our heart. The fulfillment of the sacrificial services at the altar with the horn at every corner, was fulfilled by His sacrifice.

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

It would not surprise me that at the time of the sacrifice, when Yeshua gave up the ghost, the lamb that was to be sacrificed in the temple in Jerusalem escaped the knife. This temple service that God instituted was the only process that God would accept as a method to approach Him. It is the only way God would offer mercy and forgiveness to the sinner. Through the atoning blood of our Lord Yeshua Christ, performed in ritual for years at this altar, do people get an inkling of how sacrifice removes sins from the sinner.

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Yeshua ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

This is where the grace of God can be found, in the symbolic services performed, showing that a way made for reconciliation between man and a Holy God and it was in the shedding of the blood of His Only Begotten Son. Here is where you can place all the texts of Yeshua as the Lamb of God, sacrificed for us, for forgiveness for our sins.

Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Yeshua:

This is where the daily sacrifices are made, by the blood of the lamb, in the outer court of the temple grounds, for your sins when you confess them with a humble and repentant heart.

Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

Now notice the difference between the daily priests work and that of our High Priest, our Lord Yeshua Christ. It is important for you to see this as it will become clearer later why it is so important to follow Yeshua in His Heavenly ministry. We are only at the first step in Temple services. We have only come to Yeshua at the altar of sacrifice, and where with repentant hearts we are seeing our need to forsake sins and sinful ways, that we may have a closer walk with God.

Hebrews 5:1 For every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those High Priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for
his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself.

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

 

[visionary]

All the Outer Court Vessels are Bronze. Bronze means the judgment of all the sins of mankind.

Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

The people may not have realized the connection between the brass objects in the outer court, but Yeshua pointed to the brass (bronze) as said that it pointed to Him. He was made like sin so that we who look to Him for salvation may be saved from the serpent’s bite.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

It was not the graven serpent that healed but the faith that if you looked upon it as the God told Moses to tell the people to do that healed them, by faith they knew God would heal them if they obey and God did the healing. Just as Yeshua who was a curse on the tree, and many believed that He was the son of G-d are still today healed. They looked up Yeshua repent and believe. They are fully forgiven and healed. Those who look upon the pole and see Yeshua, the innocent guiltless lamb, made sin for us represented by the serpent, will get a glimmer of what Yeshua was telling them. Placing the snake on the crucifix and its descent with Christ into death, hell, the place where there is no return we get a glimpse of the depths that Christ went to for us. Christ, who bore our iniquity as he bears the snake with Him into the eternal destruction of Hell, and then resurrects. No mere mortal is capable of resurrection, cut off as we had been from the Tree of Life, only a God can do this. Only because Yeshua is God Himself can this be so. As it happened later, people missed the message and worshiped the serpent on the pole and it had to be torn down.

2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

Let us not miss this message and worship the serpent. Satan is one brazen, bold, deceitful, conniving, instigator of malicious devious lies. Understand how repentance in our hearts brings the promises of God to our life, and healing of our mind and body from the bites of Satan. It is also interesting that this is also where we will find him when he comes to do the great imitation of Jesus Christ. Probably doing the beatitude speech and healing people like Yeshua did the first time He came.