Hope nobody minds me starting this chapter. I’m anxious to keep moving along. This is a really good book. Sorry, I don’t know how to create a link to the actual chapter.


It’s in this chapter that Jesus becomes aware that things aren’t what they should be. He is now realizing that there’s a serious problem with religion. He looks at the roadmap, then looks around. Everyone’s lost. Unfortunately, most don’t even know they’re lost, and of course, even if they momentarily realize it, they refuse to ask directions, since they are too proud. After all, they’re too important to ask directions, especially from a peasant. What would people think? Jesus is the only one who sees it clearly, because he has memories of another life.

The religion was detoured, too, because it had morphed into a distortion and perversion of the original model. What was the original model? God told Moses to make a box-like tent in the wilderness, a place where he would meet with mankind. This was a teensy-weensy human-sized model of something very big, something very far away.

This little miniature human sanctuary functioned as an object lesson to teach puny little earthlings what was happening in the Real Sanctuary. In the Real Sanctuary, requests to delete evil from human life records are stored, in the Altar of Incense structure, I believe. In another location, perhaps miles away, human’s life records are stored after they pass on and their spirit returns to the Sanctuary and downloads their memories for storage. This I believe occurs in the Altar of Sacrifice structure.

Unfortunately, missing from the Temple in Jesus’ day were the original furnishings crafted in Moses’ and Solomon’s time. In place of the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place, above which God spoke to the great assemblies on the Sea of Glass in the Kingdom of the Stars in the Real Sanctuary, was a common rock. The high priest would take his little hanging incense burner and swing it over the rock on the Day of Atonement. He had, I’m sure, no clue that it symbolized the transfer of requests to remove sin from one’s life record from the Altar of Incense to the Ark of the Covenant, the place of final judgment of life records.

But the meanings behind the symbols were all forgotten, lost to history. It was now a play, complete with actors, and of course, many new rules. Those who liked bossing other people around got to be the Keepers of Religion. They may have thought they were doing God a favor by being the Enforcers of the Rules, but of course, they didn’t have the slightest clue about what was truth. Their rules and traditions became equal with the scriptures.

Jesus looked at their pathetic little rules, and their pathetic little existence. His memories were downloaded into a tiny human body, memories of a powerful extraterrestrial civilization. He had stood on the Sea of Glass looking up at his Father hovering above the Ark of the Covenant, speaking to the great assemblies. He had known Satan and helped drive him out. He had seen technology no primitive human could even dream about, and now they were trying to tell him to obey their ridiculous little stand-up, sit-down, turn-around, wash-your-hands ceremonies. The Keepers of Religion were on a power trip, exultant when they could make people obey their rules, furious when they couldn’t.

We need to look at the principles of the Sanctuary service, the key to our understanding of our existence and afterlife, then compare it with our religion of today. Of course, we no longer must sacrifice animals and splash their blood on an altar, but are we teaching the same principles, that no sins can remain on our life record without facing destruction? Are we participating in pageants and fables in our worship services, or, are we teaching/showing others what they need to do to participate in the Kingdom of the Stars?

Thank you for listening. I just think that understanding the Sanctuary is the key to understanding true religion. That should be our focus. Forget Paul. He was either a crack head or was eating strange mushrooms when he wrote those letters. Somehow, they were turned into the Word of God. Sorry, it upsets me to read them.

GT

Days of Conflict

[I'm a bit confused as to why you feel Paul's letters shouldn't be canonical.]

I've completed the Sanctuary honor for Pathfindering. Its a new one. Check it out for some cool insight! Pathfinders Online Forum

I know most of the basic stuff -- the basic layout, what each section represents, etc. For example: the outer court has the altar of sacrifice and the laver; the holy place has the table of shewbread, the altar of incense, and the sevenfold lampstand; the most holy place has the mercy seat w/ the cherubim and the ark of the covenant; inside the ark is manna, aaron's rod that budded, and the 10c's. A veil separated the holy from the most holy place and that veil was rent in twain without human hands at the moment Jesus died on the cross. Each part of the sanctuary corresponds to a type of devotional activity (daily worship), e.g. confessing sin (altar), asking for cleansing (laver), intercession for others (incense), time with the Word (shewbread), witnessing/doing good works (lampstand), and time of intimacy with God (Most Holy Place), listening to Him and lingering in His presence.

I also know that the True Tabernacle exists in a higher dimension and is constructed not of material nor of space but of time, or at least, of that "fabric" of which the "cloth" we call "time" is cut for our measure. This is because the Scripture states that the heaven, even the highest of heavens, cannot contain God, how much less houses made with human hands.

Sid you have a g/f? I'm well and truly crushed.

Gonna go sulk now --

N .

No you're not! That was really sweet of you to say though.