I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. Revelation 21:22.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Saints are in the world but they are not of the world. What are they of then? The Kingdom, My Kingdom.
“Arise, shine; for your Light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Isaiah 60:1-2.
I want you to retreat more and more to My secret place so that you come out transformed. The womb and birth canal of metamorphosis, transformation, is My Word, by which you are born again and by which you are transformed by the renewing of your mind. The rhema Word of revelation—the Word that reveals Me, the Word made flesh who then becomes your flesh and you become His flesh, I speak of the bread of life, the bread of My presence, which was set before you on the golden table before entering the Holy of Holies in the light of the golden lampstand.
Even though I walk through the dark valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You [the good Shepherd] are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will pursue and follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for length of days (forever). Psalm 23:4-6.
I am speaking again of the plan set forth in the tabernacle of Moses. My dwelling among you, in the midst of your camp, in the midst of your tents, formed into the sign of the cross upon which you were redeemed, ransomed, and made right with Me, bringing the unblemished lamb to enter the gate. Make Me your dwelling place even now.
To those without hearts for Me, the bread of life is hidden manna, concealed beneath the propitiatory (mercy seat) covering the Ark of the Testimony, hidden in the mystery of salvation (Jesus) for My Covenant people. But for those with hearts toward Me it is manna revealed.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.” Revelation 2:17.
When John was exiled by the Roman emperor to the island of Patmos for witnessing to the good news of Jesus, he was in a bleak and barren place, dwelling in the darkness of a cave, but that, as the world, was not his true dwelling place though physically he was there, but he tells you he was in the Spirit and for him it was My day, not the world’s day but My day. And suddenly the barren place, the darkness of the cave in which he dwelt on that island, did not hold him captive to its dark emptiness—for sin, which is in the world, is emptiness, void and dark, hiding from the light that would cleanse it out—but was overcome by the light of seven glorious lampstands and one whose face shone like the brightness of the sun fully risen. Revelation 1:9-16. Whose voice as He spoke with John was like a glorious trumpet above all the fear and confusion of the voice of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
And now as John turned to that light and to the voice of the good Shepherd and great High Priest, the One who overcame the world for you and made you overcomers in Him, John entered the inner court of the golden lampstand and the golden table of the bread of My presence, which is the church on earth, and he heard words that he was to write down as messages for each of the seven churches, but that great voice like a trumpet called him beyond the inner court to enter through the open door to the Holy of Holies, the very throne of grace, the place of My presence.
At the crucifixion of Christ, the veil to the Holy of Holies was rent in two from top to bottom when, as your forerunner and great High Priest, Jesus opened the Holy of Holies to you who believe in His Name by a new and living way He inaugurated for you by His blood and the sacrifice of His flesh, into the very throne room of Heaven, the very throne of grace.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-22.
And I showed him things that were to come.
But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. John 16:13.
And I even showed him past the tribulation and the thousand year reign to the Day that I judge from the great white throne of judgment those whose names are not in the Lamb’s Book of Life to the pit of fire and give the Kingdom to the saints, but even more, I give you Heaven and earth, as My heavenly city, the new Jerusalem descends to join Heaven and earth as one and I come to tabernacle among you so that the tabernacle of Moses is at last fulfilled in the true heavenly splendor and beauty it was pointing to as a mere shadow of the good things to come. Hebrews 10:1.
And I want to draw your attention to what John told you about that heavenly city by which I dwell among you and you dwell with Me in full revelation and open vision of who I am and of the Lamb.
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. Revelation 21:22-23.
And you should not just see this as one day when all is settled for eternity but now for there is a living and working truth here that you must know to live in the Kingdom even now. For you are to be in the world but not of the world, and this reaches more than just not being conformed to the ways of the world, although that applies as well. But this has to do with making Me your dwelling place and you Mine.
Most people, even believers, see Me as in certain places and not in others. They believe they are in My presence in church or at certain pilgrimage places, and that is true, but that is not the whole truth. When Jacob had a vision of Me in a deserted spot where he spent the night on Mt. Moriah as he traveled to find his bride and escape his brother’s wrath, he set up a memorial stone and called that place the “House of God and the gate of Heaven,” and renamed the place “Beth-El,” which in Hebrew means the House of God.
“Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” Genesis 28:16-17.
He recognized that he was in My presence and that in My presence he was in a place of holiness and that My presence opened to him a gate to My Kingdom.
My presence turns the place in which you are into a temple of My glory. I told Moses, as the glory of My presence burned in the bush before him on Mt. Horeb (Sinai), to take off his shoes for he was on holy ground, the ground of My presence for I am holy. And for him it also became a gate to My Kingdom for direction, protection, and power from Heaven. And to him, as he got to know Me better, I revealed the plan of the tabernacle, though I had taught the plan in partial ways before.
When I had redeemed My people out of slavery and preserved them from the destroyer by the covering of the blood the unblemished Passover lamb, I shared with Moses My heart’s desire to dwell with and journey with My people. And in that plan of the tabernacle I revealed to him the plan of salvation by the blood in atonement for sins, the washing in the Word, and the place of worship in the Spirit, where he would hear My voice and receive the directions for My people. And I also gave Moses the Moadim, the appointed time and great feasts the would all be represented in the various parts of the tabernacle.
After freeing My people out of slavery by wonders like never had been seen or have been seen since, I spoke to Moses again at Mt. Sinai (Horeb) and I told him to tell the sons of Israel to raise an offering to Me from the riches I had given them on the night they left Egypt so they could construct form Me a sanctuary so I could dwell among them according to all I would show him as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so he was to construct it. Exodus 25:1-8.
And first I gave him the plans for the most sacred and important furnishings of this amazing dwelling place, the ark of the testimony, which was the place of My presence with them and where from above the propitiatory that covered it (mercy seat), I would speak to them, the golden table upon which was set the bread of My presence, and the Golden Lampstand.
Do you see Jesus here, the plan of Salvation? He is the Light of the World, the Bread of Life, and My presence among you to speak My Words to you. And He is the One who made eternal propitiation for your sins and is your mercy seat.
And the way this amazing structure was set up was a path from east to west, from the rising of the sun to its setting, the plan I have for each person’s life from being born again to unity with Me forever, a unity that begins now and is eternal life, for eternal life is to KNOW Me and the One I sent Jesus Christ. John 17:3. And this is not only the plan for each person’s life, but the plan of the timeline of the world as defined by the moadim, i.e., the signs of the appointed times and feasts, from Passover to Tabernacles, that usher in the end of time and the day I tabernacle among you, joining Heaven and earth.
And the path starts with the blood of the lamb as the burnt offering to take away your sins on the bronze alter of judgement, which puts you out of the world into the outer court where your sins have been cleansed and are gone, to the bronze laver where you are baptized and renew your mind with the washing with the water of the Word, which then puts you in the inner court within the tabernacle walls, where the golden lampstand and the bread of My presence on the golden table are set out for you, which is the place of grace, the church, where you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, and then praying in the Spirit equipped with the blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony, you enter with the High Priest of your confession (homologia: speaking the same Words in agreement with Him, who is My Word) into the very Holy of Holies where I speak to your from the throne of grace. And there you receive mercy and find grace to help just when you need it.
But the goal of the plan for you and the world is one in the same—total unity with Me so that My Kingdom and all the benefits that go with it in a never ending source of abundant supply are yours to enjoy now and forever, but there is MUCH MORE you will find in the greatest joy and treasure of all. And that is our continual fellowship as we join together in the intimate beauty of holiness, purity, perfect peace, trust, and love in a precious place of knowing where there is no evil, darkness, harm, toil, lack, fear, anxiety, torment, hypocrisy, death, grief, or sorrow at all. Only truth and love resulting in joy, pure, exalted, perfect JOY. Which comes from taking Jesus Over You as your Lord and as your shield from the wrath of justice that falls upon sin.
And when My Word became flesh and dwelt among you, wherever He walked, taught, preached and healed, the Kingdom opened and manifested on the earth. Jesus is the house of God and the gate to Heaven. There is no other way you can enter or see My Kingdom but through Him. But once you are in Him you have full access to My Kingdom day and night. You can dwell there in Him. In fact, by His substitutionary sacrificial death, when He died to sin, you died, and when I raised Him up and seated Him with Me in the Kingdom at My right hand, I raised you up with Him and seated you there with Him as well.
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again from above he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:3-8.
You can be continually living under the covering, the canopy, of My presence, an assembly of My heavenly city of Zion, the new Jerusalem.
Then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy [chupah, which is the wedding canopy]. There will be a tabernacle to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. Isaiah 4:5-6.
What am I telling you, essentially is again the purpose and plan of the tabernacle to guide you in your life with Me as it served to do for My covenant people to lead them to take the abundance of the land I had promised to them in My covenant with Abraham.
It also ties in with what Jesus taught the Samaritan woman by the well, that it is not a particular place that you must go to find Me and worship Me, but it is a place of continual fellowship of worship in Spirit and in truth. Which signifies faith, which is of the heart, and truth, which is My Word.
It also is set out for you in the Spirit inspired words of My prophet Isaiah, and many other places in My Word besides. For when you are in Christ you can “call your walls salvation (יְשׁוּעָה֙), and your gates praise. No longer will you have the sun for light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, and your God for your beauty. your sun will no longer set, nor will your moon wane; for you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over. Isaiah 60:18-20.
I am showing you that all day and all night like John on the island of Patmos you can dwell in the light of My glory surrounding and keeping you while you are still in the world by being inside minded, and that only comes one way, by entering just as you did the tabernacle in your midst of old, through the blood, the water, and the Spirit, from the gate to the outer court to the inner court to the Holy of Holies and staying there in the secret place by continually being in the place of worshipping in spirit and truth as your lifestyle.
And just as in the holy place of the inner court and in Psalm 23, the Light of the World and the bread of life will lead you out of the dark valley of the shadow of death of the world to the golden table set before you in the sight of your foes filled with the Word, the bread of My presence, as I anoint your head with oil, the Spirit and the anointing of your Messiah, the oil of joy, through the incense of prayer in the Spirit, to enter in with confidence and stay permanently seated with Christ at My right hand in the very Holy of Holies all the days of your life and forever.
And I shall beautify My beautiful house. Who are these who fly like a cloud and like the doves to their lattices? Isaiah 60:7-8.
You can enter and live in the Kingdom now while you are in the world but not of the world because you whom I have changed from sinners to saints by the blood of the Lamb and have remained in My Word, renewing your minds as born again new creations in Christ, can enter. Keep yourselves pure and build yourselves up in My love by praying in the Spirit and continually dwelling in My glorious presence by being inside minded, for recall My Words about My Kingdom, “nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:27.
You are clean already because of the Word I have spoken to you. Walk in My Light and the Blood of Jesus continually cleanses you.
I love you. Live in the Light of My Kingdom by staying in My secret place all the time. You can, when I raised Christ, I raised you with Him in spirit and truth, and seated you there in Him and blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. I gave you the Kingdom when I gave you Him.