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

Father in heaven we gather once again to study your holy word, the sure word of prophecy for these last days.

And Father we ask that as we open that word that the Holy Spirit will be with us to guide our thoughts.

Our ways are not your ways and your ways are not our ways.

That's the reason why in order to understand you we need special revelation And so we ask for your presence and we thank you for hearing our prayer for we ask it in Jesus name.

The Holy Spirit had fallen on the day of Pentecost And the Christian movement was growing and extending like a grass fire.

In fact, in Acts chapter 6 and verse 7, we find a description of the fact that many members and priests were leaving Judaism and they were joining the Christian movement.

It says there, then the word of God spread and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

In other words, clergy and laity were being converted to Christianity.

The Bible tells us that 1 of the reasons for this phenomenal growth was the work of Stephen, who was 1 of the 7 deacons.

In Acts chapter 6 and verse 8, we're told that Stephen was instrumental in the growth of the church.

It says there, and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

So fast was the Christian movement growing that Judaism was greatly disturbed.

In fact, there was 1 particular person who was very disturbed.

It was a young man who was a very promising prospect for Judaism.

It appeared like he had a brilliant future.

He believed that God had chosen the Jewish nation unconditionally and irrevocably, and woe to whoever questioned that fact.

You see for Saul of Tarsus the preservation of Judaism was number 1 on his list.

Judaism had to be preserved at all costs.

We're told in Acts Chapter 22 and verse 3 and here the apostle Paul is talking about his heritage.

He says I am indeed a Jew born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, great teacher by the way, taught according to the strictness of our father's law and was zealous toward God as you all are today.

And so here we find Saul of Tarsus describing his Jewish heritage.

Now Saul wanted to preserve the Judaism for the same reason that the Jews that led Jesus to the cross wanted to preserve Judaism.

In fact, in John chapter 11 and verses 47 through 50, we find the high priest, Caiaphas, speaking before the Sanhedrin, and he was explaining why they needed to do away with Christ.

In other words, the subsistence of the Jewish nation was at stake.

We find there in John 11 47 through 50, this is happening just a few months before the death of Christ, then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, what shall we do?

If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.

That this would grow so great that Judaism would disappear.

It says, And 1 of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that 1 man should die for the people and not that the whole nation should perish.

So notice that the main argument for destroying Christ was the preservation of the Jewish nation.

The same feeling was in the heart of Saul of Tarsus.

He said this growing Christian movement is a menace to Judaism and it must be destroyed.

In Acts chapter 26 and verses 9 through 11 we find a description of Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor of the church.

It says there in Acts 26 verses 9 through 11, Paul is reminiscing about his previous life.

Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests.

And when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

So Saul of Tarsus had the same spirit as the Sanhedrin.

In his mind the preservation of Judaism was uppermost in his mind.

And this is the reason why Saul of Tarsus was so intent on destroying not only Christianity but particularly Stephen who was 1 of those who was leading to the phenomenal growth of Christianity.

In fact, we find in Acts chapter 7 and verses 57 and 58 that when Stephen was being stoned, Saul of Tarsus was present there.

It says, Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with 1 accord.

And they cast him out of the city and stoned him.

And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But not only was Saul present for the stoning of Stephen, the Bible gives us the impression that Saul of Tarsus was the ringleader and the mastermind behind the death of Stephen.

We're told in Acts chapter 22 and verse 20.

And when the blood of your martyr, this is Saul speaking or Paul at this point, and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by consenting to his death and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.

So we find Saul of Tarsus actively involved and planning the death of Stephen because he was 1 of the instruments in the growth of the Christian movement.

Now we find that after the stoning of Stephen Saul of Tarsus decided to go on an expedition to hunt down Christians in the city of Damascus.

In fact he would have had to travel a long ways because Jerusalem is a very long way from Damascus.

You have to cross all of Israel to the northern border.

You have to go across Lebanon and into Syria.

We find a description of this persecution in Acts 9 and verses 1 and 2.

We're told there, Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogue of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the way, that's the name of the Christian movement, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

And so Saul of Tarsus was on the way to Damascus to arrest Christians and to take them to Jerusalem to stand trial and most likely to be killed.

But it was on the road to Damascus that Saul of Tarsus had an experience that not only changed his life but also changed his theology.

On the road to Damascus he had an encounter with Jesus Christ.

He discovered that by persecuting the church he was actually persecuting Jesus Because he heard a voice from heaven that said, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

And he says, who are you so that I know who I'm persecuting?

And Jesus says, I am Jesus of Nazareth who you are persecuting.

In other words by persecuting my body you are persecuting me.

Let's read about this in Acts chapter 9 and verses 3 through 6.

As he journeyed he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.

Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

Then the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

It is hard for you to kick against the goals.

That means that he was kicking against his conscience.

Verse 6, so he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what do you want me to do?

The Bible says that he was sent to a man called Ananias, and Ananias met Saul of Tarsus in the house of an individual called Judas.

And I want you to notice how the story is picked up in Acts 22, verses 16 through 18.

Here Luke is telling the story of this experience on the road to Damascus.

It says here, but the Lord said to him, that is to Ananias, go, and the context indicates he was supposed to go to the house of Judas.

But the Lord said to him, go, for he, that is Saul of Tarsus, is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Ananias went his way and entered the house and laying his hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once, and he arose and was baptized.

Now listen, he not only received his physical eyesight, The scales that fell from his eyes were the scales of prejudice.

He now saw that God's people were those who received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

Now in Galatians Chapter 3 and verses 26 and 27 we find a very important concept, it says there all those who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Now we know that Saul of Tarsus was baptized, So whom did Saul of Tarsus put on?

In Galatians chapter 3 and verse 15 And verse 16 we find that the Apostle Paul says that the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed.

And there the Apostle Paul who is writing later on after his conversion says that the text does not say to seeds as to many, but to your seed who is Christ.

In other words, the seed of Abraham is 1 solitary person, and that solitary person is whom?

But now I want you to notice that those who are in Christ through baptism like Saul of Tarsus now become Abraham's seed through Jesus.

Notice Galatians chapter 3, Galatians chapter 3 and verse 29.

It says if you are Christ's then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

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