G-D'S CALENDAR

Part IV

Once the Court was set up Moses took the holy anointing oil and consecrated the Tent and all the furnishings and utensils necessary for priestly ministry. Then the glory of the L-RD filled the Tabernacle and rested upon it as a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night⁸. 

But the Court with its hangings, pillars, bases, cords and its Gate were not anointed. Though part of the Tabernacle, the Court was not consecrated and holy like the Tent and its furnishings. The Court was "common"⁹  where the Congregation of twelve tribes could enter, the Court being their portion of the Tabernacle. Hence, NOT everyone, NOT the whole Assembly is holy¹⁰. In this lay the great error and sin of Korah. He claimed that "... all the congregation are holy, everyone of them... why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the L-RD?"¹¹  But the priesthood is a gift from G-d and set apart from the ordinary, common things of human tasks to minister before G-d¹².

The Royal (alias high) priesthood (most holy) serves G-DWARD on behalf of the Congregation; and the Holy (alias Levitical) priesthood serves MANWARD on behalf of G-d. But the Court, and hence the Congregation, lack that holiness, consecration and anointing.

For centuries it has been taught that salvation alone suffices to proceed even beyond the Veil. This is incorrect. Indeed, the way into the innermost sanctuary has been opened by Yeshua’s blood, by which we are eligible to enter. However, we must also qualify. To this the Lord Himself testifies: “For many are called (eligible), but few are chosen (qualify).”¹³ Wherefore we are admonished to press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which G-d in Yeshua HaMashiach is calling us upward¹⁴. We need to work out our salvation with fear and trembling¹⁵, and mature into the fullness of the measure of the stature of Messiah¹⁶, before we also qualify for this great privilege (of which even Paul the apostle said that he had not yet made it  his own). 

Getting saved [or, born again] is merely the beginning of the journey to full sanctification, to being conformed into His Image, from glory to glory and from faith to faith¹⁷. The book, THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, well illustrates this truth. It is the building of Christlikeness in us and the degree to which we attain to it, that decides our progress into the Tabernacle. 

It is the crafty work of the deceiver to teach us that we can automatically proceed into the innermost sanctuary, once we are saved. We are made to expect something of which we do not realize that we must qualify for it¹⁸. Many are “eligible” to run in a race, but the victor’s wreath is only for those who finish the race. Not all win the prize, though all may be legitimate runners competing in the race and eligible for the prize¹⁹.

Hence, to the degree we press on to more fully "know" Him²⁰, to that degree shall we advance into the Tabernacle not made with hands. Not more and not less. It is there --- waiting for us. It is our choice to patiently press on in to the innermost sanctuary, running the race, or taking the easy path that barely makes it to the Door of the Tent of Meeting. Whatever our heart is truly set on is what we shall have²¹. Whatever we aim for is what we will obtain, if we patiently endure and conquer. The prize is there, waiting for us. It is our choice to make it our own

Hence, understanding the blue-print of the Tabernacle, its ordinances and anointings, and the pattern according to which it is pitched, helps us to understand how G-d will proceed in the resurrection and the rapture²² .