Hartland Winter Convocation 2018: Preparing the Way

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Hartland Institute of Health and Education

Dwayne Lemon

Prophecy Being Fufilled

It is a pleasure to be back here at Heartland College and to see many familiar faces as well as, of course, some brand new faces I've never had the privilege of meeting.

It's always good to see more and more extended family, more brothers and more sisters.

And the Lord wants to speak to our hearts because tonight we're going to talk a little bit about prophecy being fulfilled.

You think there's a lot happening in our world today?

The question is, what are you going to do about it?

God is putting me through some fast courses of education, true education, and he's really helping me to see things more clearly.

I have an understanding of the Bible that's deeper than any time in my life I've ever had.

Ever since I laid down on that table, December 19, 2016, on that operating table, truly God performed a work on my heart.

And I just want to thank Him and praise Him for the privilege to stand before you and to be His representative.

The Bible says something very beautiful in the book of Exodus.

I would imagine you are more than likely familiar with it.

And if you're not, you can certainly turn there.

It was when the children of Israel were still in their mystified confusion of understanding who God is and what God's words are about that God began to make himself very plain to them in Exodus 25.

And he said right there in verse 8, let them make me a what?

He said, let them make me a sanctuary, that I may do what?

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

And the word among, if you look it up in the Hebrew, the word among actually means in.

Let them make me a sanctuary, I'm gonna teach them how I'm gonna make their hearts my home.

But the sanctuary does more than merely teach us about the wonderful grace of God working upon the heart of man.

The sanctuary and its services was also designed to show us prophecy.

You see, if you really go back to the sanctuary, you'll remember that there were all the various services that would lead up to an ultimate point.

You had the Passover, and that's pretty much where all things began.

And after the Passover, you would have unleavened bread.

And then after that, you'd have the first fruits.

And then after that, you'd have Pentecost.

And then after that, of course, you would have the trumpets.

And the trumpets were preparing the way, 10 days, preparing the way for that great grand day.

The day of atonement, the day of atonement.

And after the day of atonement, there was only 1 more feast left.

Now, when we study these types, God says that when we understand the anti-type, always remember a type is a symbol and anti-type is a reality.

Every time we go outside and that precious sunshine shines on your body, it puts a type on the ground.

That type is called a shadow, and that shadow is a reflection of a reality.

So when we study these types, what we need to understand is that these are actually 7 prophetic signposts.

It lets us know the movements of the Master.

It helps us know where He is and what He's doing, and most importantly, what should we be doing as a result of knowing what he's doing?

This is why we have that wonderful statement.

In 1 stage of the book, Great Controversy, you could read about how an understanding of the sanctuary showed the position and work of our great high priest.

But then in the same book, page 423, it says an understanding of the sanctuary can help us understand our position, our work.

And so it is that the more that we study these things is the more that God wants to bring across to yours and my heart where Jesus is.

We are at that place of the Day of Atonement.

There is no other feast going on congruently with this feast.

There's no other feast days for us to be giving our attention to except this 1 feast day, which is none other than the Day of Atonement.

And what is Christ doing on the Day of Atonement?

Now, you should know this by now, my family.

I would imagine that we would understand.

In Leviticus, the 16th chapter, forgive me.

We have a chart that points out every way mark on the heavenward journey.

In Leviticus 16, you can look at verse 19.

Leviticus 16, just so we can understand it.

Leviticus, the 16th chapter, and when you get there, just let me know by simply saying Amen.

The Bible says in the book of Leviticus, we're looking at the 16th chapter, starting at verse 19.

The Bible says in Leviticus 16 and verse 19, and he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger 7 times and cleanse it and hollow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

If you just go back a few verses, verse 16, you would see this is talking about the sanctuary, the structure.

When we look at Leviticus 16, and now we look at verse 30, what do we see in verse 30?

The Bible says, for on that day, same day, for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins.

And so it is that the great focus of the work of Jesus in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary is to cleanse the sanctuary, but he cannot clean that sanctuary until he first has a clean people.

It's the people that make the sanctuary dirty.

And so You cannot have a clean sanctuary until you first have a clean people.

Because if you do it backwards, it's like a mother and a father who has a child who loves to play outside.

Parents, if you have a child that loves to play outside and maybe struggles a little bit with that thing called forgetfulness.

Then there are times that you could be slaving in the house and you're mopping floors and cleaning up and doing everything you can to make sure your house is spick and span.

And here it is that when you're just beginning to stick your chest out, thankful for how hard you worked to keep your house clean, that child who loves to play outside will run inside of that house and go through forgetfulness to take off their shoes and they will walk across that clean floor with the dirt that they tracked up from outside.

Now if mother and father want a clean house, what are they going to have to do?

They're going to have to go ahead and start mopping that floor again and of course tell that child, listen, I need you to keep those shoes outside.

The children were making the house dirty.

God is doing a cleansing work, but his children keep making the house dirty.

And so once God can get us to that precious place, that we can overcome the thing that keeps causing the sanctuary to be functional, which is sin, then God can finally have a clean sanctuary, because now he has a clean people.

And this is the great work of Jesus in that most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.

I was praying and saying, Father, what do you want me to put up?

That's the picture that should capture our attention.

Every Christian, I don't care what denomination you're from, the Bible is the Bible.

And it doesn't matter if you're Baptist or whatever it may be.

I was on the airplane flying over here, and I had the privilege of flying, and I was observing, because I'm always going on an airplane, and I'm like, all right, Lord, who can I talk to?

And when I got there, saw this young man.

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