God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven.    Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org  

God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven. Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

Secrets Unsealed

His Way is in the Sanctuary

Stephen Bohr

1. His Way is in the Sanctuary

2. The Sanctuary’s Angels

3. Death and Life in the Sanctuary

4. The Incarnation’s Seven Secrets

5. The Lamb of God Slain

6. Reaping the Sanctuary’s Benefits

7. A People Close to His Heart

8. The Triangle of Sanctification

9. The Sanctuary’s Two Covenants

10. The Bible’s Foundational Prophecy

11. The Chronology of the Judgment

12. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 1)

13. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 2)

14. Three Stages of Israel’s History

15. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 1)

16. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 2)

17. Found! The Ark of the Covenant

18. The Manna Test

19. Disappointment in the Sanctuary

20. As a Thief in the Night

21. God On Trial

22. The Judgment’s Three Stages

23. The Scapegoat and Revelation’s Millennium

24. A Monumental Conversion Experience

25. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 1)

26. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 2)

27. The Sanctuary’s Financial Secrets

28. The Holy and the Profane

29. The Two Temples

30. The Sanctuary and the Prophetic Gift

31. Three Inseparable Doctrines

32. Home At Last

Our loving Heavenly Father, as we begin this series on the Hebrew sanctuary that you gave as a model of the plan of salvation, We ask, Father, that you will enlighten our minds and that you will soften our hearts so that we might understand the great truths that we find in the sanctuary and not only understand them in our minds but also apply the lessons in our hearts.

We ask for the presence of your Holy Spirit, for human minds cannot understand the great things of God unaided, so we plead for your presence.

And we thank you, Father, for the privilege of approaching your throne boldly, because we do it in the precious name of Jesus, our Savior and Lord.

I'd like to invite you to turn in your Bibles with me to the book of Psalms.

We're going to Psalm 73, and I would like to read verses 3, and then verses 12 through 14, and then we will jump down to verse 17.

You know, many of the psalms were written by David, but this particular psalm was written by an individual called Asaph.

And basically what Asaph is struggling with is the prosperity of the boastful and of the wicked.

And I want you to notice how he expresses this envy at the beginning and then how he answers his question about why the wicked prosper.

Let's begin by reading Psalm 73 and verse 3.

For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Then we jump down to verse 12, Behold these are the ungodly, who are always at ease, they increase in riches.

And then he says, Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, washed my hands in innocence.

For all day long I have been plagued and chastened every morning.

In other words, what use is it to cleanse your life to be righteous because the wicked prosper and the righteous are chastened?

But now I want you to notice the answer that he found to his problem.

It says there, Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end.

There was something in the sanctuary, in the Hebrew sanctuary, that explained that it is good to cleanse your heart from sin and that the wicked who prosper, the boastful who are successful in life will eventually receive a just reward for their deeds.

The Hebrew sanctuary has the explanations that many times leave questions in the mind.

Now I'd like to begin by mentioning the sanctuaries that are brought to view in Scripture, particularly the earthly sanctuaries.

Now the first sanctuary that was built of course was the sanctuary in the wilderness in the times of Moses.

This sanctuary was built around the year 1445 BC And I'd like to read Exodus 25 and verse 8, and then we'll go down to verse 40, where this particular tabernacle or this sanctuary is spoken of.

Exodus 25 and verse 8, here God is speaking and he says, and let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

And then in verse 40, God told Moses to make this sanctuary according to the pattern that he showed him in the mountain.

It says there, and see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you in the mount.

And then in Exodus 36 through 39 we find the building of this sanctuary that God told Moses to build.

Now after the sanctuary had been built, all of its different parts, we find in Exodus chapter 40 and verse 34 that the Shekinah glory of God entered the Hebrew sanctuary.

Let's read that verse Exodus 40 and verse 34.

The sanctuary has been built, all of its parts are complete, and now we find these words.

Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

So this is the first sanctuary that is mentioned in Holy Scripture that was built on earth.

The Hebrew sanctuary at the times of Moses.

But then God had Israel make a more permanent structure because the sanctuary in the wilderness was actually a tent that they could move around.

But when Israel entered the promised land God told David and then Solomon to build a more permanent structure which came to be known as Solomon's Temple.

Now that's a misnomer because it wasn't Solomon's Temple.

Solomon built it, but it was really the Lord's Temple.

This temple was built around the year 960 BC.

And to give you a little bit of background if you read in 2nd Chronicles chapter 6 you'll find that Solomon offered a prayer after the building of this temple and then in 2nd Chronicles chapter 7 verses 1 and 2 once again the Shekinah glory of God entered the sanctuary or the temple that Solomon had built.

Let's read from 2nd Chronicles chapter 7 and verses 1 and 2.

It says, When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.

And so once again we find the building of a sanctuary.

This is a permanent temple in the year 960 B.C.

The building is actually described in Second Chronicles chapters 3 and 4 and 5.

And then in chapter 6 we have Solomon's prayer, and in chapter 7 we have the Shekinah glory entering the temple that Solomon built.

But because of the apostasy of Israel, This temple was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar in the year 586, and of course Israel was taken captive for a period of 70 years to Babylon, and there was a promise that after they were in Babylon for 70 years they would be able to go back to their land reestablish their religion and build the temple once again so after the captivity in the year 536 they went back to their land and they built the temple and the temple was finished in the year 515 BC.

This temple is spoken of in Haggai chapter 2 and verses 6 through 9.

Now there's something very interesting about this temple that was built after the captivity, and that is that this temple had no Shekinah glory go into it.

In fact when this temple was finished many of those who had seen Solomon's temple actually cried when they saw how inferior this temple was to the temple that Solomon had built.

Let's read about this temple in Haggai chapter 2 and verses 6 through 9.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, Once more, it is a little while, I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land, and I will shake all nations, and then, and notice, and they shall come to the desire of all nations, and I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts.

The silver is mine and the gold is mine says the Lord of hosts.

And then comes this promise, the glory of this latter temple, that is the temple that was built after the captivity, The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former, that is, than Solomon's temple, says the Lord of hosts.

And I will give in this place peace, says the Lord of hosts.

Do you know the Jews are still trying to explain how this prophecy was fulfilled?

Because the temple that was built after the captivity, at least outwardly, never reached the magnitude of glory that the temple built by Solomon had reached.

What was meant here when God gave the promise that this post-exilic temple would be filled with glory and that the glory of this latter temple would be greater than the former temple?

The fact is that this was fulfilled because Jesus Christ himself walked in the courts of this temple.

Now his glory according to Scripture was veiled, but he brought peace to this place because he was the prince of peace.

Now this temple was actually beautified and remodeled and enlarged by Herod the Great.

We find a description of this in John chapter 2 and verse 20.

Actually, it took 46 years for Herod the Great to remodel and to enlarge and to beautify this post-exilic temple.

It says there in John chapter 2 and verse 20.

Then the Jews said, it has taken 46 years to build this temple and will you raise it up in 3 days?

Of course Jesus had said destroy this temple and in 3 days I would raise it up, and they thought that he was talking about the temple that Herod had remodeled that had taken 46 years to remodel and to beautify.

So we find these temples in scripture, we find the sanctuary in the wilderness, we find the temple built by Solomon, we find the temple which was built after the exile in the year 515, and then the temple that was beautified and enlarged by Herod the Great.

Now the question is what did these sanctuaries represent?

Did God just build these sanctuaries because he wanted to dwell among Israel?

Or was there a particular reason why God told Israel to build these sanctuaries?

The fact is that these earthly sanctuaries were symbolic or represented several things.

I want you to notice the first thing that these sanctuaries represented or symbolized.

The earthly sanctuary actually was a symbol of the heavenly sanctuary, it was a scale model of the heavenly sanctuary.

God wanted Israel to understand by looking at the earthly sanctuary things about the heavenly sanctuary.

Let's go to Hebrews chapter 8 and verses 1 through 5 where we find very clearly that the earthly sanctuary was a symbol or was an illustration of the much greater heavenly sanctuary.

It says there in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 1.

Now this is the main point of the things we are saying.

We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected and not man.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.

Therefore it is necessary that this 1, that is Christ, also have something to offer.

For if he were on earth he would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law.

And now notice what it says about the earthly sanctuary, who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things.

It was a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle.

For he said, See that you make all things according to the what?

According to the pattern shown to you on the mount.

So the earthly sanctuary was only a small scale illustration of the heavenly sanctuary to give an idea of what God's heavenly sanctuary is like.

Also Hebrews 9 verses 11 and 12 tells us about this comparison between the earthly sanctuary and the heavenly sanctuary.

It says there in Hebrews 9 verses 11 and 12 and I'm reading from the King James Version which is more accurate, it says.

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, Now notice, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

Notice once again that the true tabernacle, the heavenly sanctuary, is a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands.

In other words the earthly sanctuary had the purpose of serving as a scale model to illustrate great truths about the greater heavenly sanctuary.

So 1 reason why God had all of these earthly sanctuaries built was because he wanted people to catch a vision of the heavenly sanctuary.

But these earthly temples represented other things as well and we're going to study this in this seminar.

These temples also represented our body temple.

Notice 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verses 19 and 20.

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