The True Sanctuary Part I

THE TRUE SANCTUARY

by Apostle Eliyah Khumalo

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Let us introduce the message of the true sanctuary with a conclusion on this subject by reading from the following Scripture:

Hebrews 8: 1 -5

1.       Now the main point of what we have to say is this:  We have such a High Priest, one Who is seated at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven,

2.       A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord

 pitched and not man.

3.       For every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary that this high Priest also have something to offer.

4.       If then He was still living on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are ministers who offer the gifts to God.

5.       BUT THESE OFFER SERVICE AS A PATTERN AND AS A FORESHADOWING OF  WHAT HAS ITS TRUE EXISTENCE AND REALITY IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY.  For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God saying, See to it that you make it all exactly according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.

IN OUR DAY THERE EXIST A TRUE SANCTUARY IN THE SRIRITUAL REALM AND ITS COPY TABERNACLE ON EARTH:

TRUE SANCTUARY : IN HEAVEN OF HEAVENS  - TRUE TABERNACLE

1. This sanctuary or true tabernacle was pitched by God

2. This sanctuary is an original

3. Christ is the High Priest of the Heavenly Sanctuary

                                                              i.      Christ offered blood from his own sacrifice for the sins of the world on the heavenly altar.

                                                            ii.      Christ also presents the gifts or offerings from the Church Sanctuary on earth to God.

                                                          iii.      Christ presents the tithes of God people to God that the ministers have received from the people of God in the Church Sanctuary on earth.

                                                           iv.      Christ mediates, arbitrates the New Covenant and sees to it that it is invoked from the Heavenly Sanctuary to the earthly Church Sanctuary to any blood washed claimant.

                                                             v.      The will of God manifests the works/ miracles of God to demonstrate the power of God.

GOD’S INTENTION IS TO APPROPRIATE THE BENEFITS OF THE TRUE SANCTUARY IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM TO THE HUMAN RACE. 

THIS PROGRESSIVE REVELATION OCCURS THROUGH THREE STAGES:

(1)  The Tabernacle as a Shadow of the True Sanctuary

The Lord said to Moses …

8.  Then have people make a sanctuary for me,

     And I will dwell among them.

40. See to it that you make them according to

      The pattern shown you on the mountain.

                                                            Exodus 25:1,8,40

(2)  The Temple Prototype of the True Sanctuary

I Chronicles 22:5

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced,

and the House to be built for the Lord should be of great

magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the

nations.  Therefore I will make preparations for it…”

(3)  The Church as the Manifestation of the True Sanctuary

Haggai 2: 9

The glory of the latter house shall exceed that of the former one, says the Lord.  And in this place I will grant peace, declares the Lord Almighty.

LET US ZOOM INTO THE EARTHLY TABERNACLE AS A REPLICA OF THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY TO DECODE WHAT AND COMPREHEND THE PURPOSE OF THIS REVELATION:

These are the offerings you are to receive from them:

Gold, silver and bronze, blue, purple, and red, and white.

Exodus 25: 3-4

• God Used Specific Colors as a Prophetic Type for Revelation of  the True Sanctuary Through its Copy Called the Tabernacle . 
• The tabernacle is a foreshadow of the presence of God.
• Various dispensations of the manifest presence of God are prophesied by God through dimensions of seven colors.  
• God chose the seven colors  as an illustration of the process or the journey the restoration of mankind back to God through the manifestation of his presence.

Scarlet Dimension  -  depicts the entrance into the tabernacle

• Scarlet is a maroon red color.
• Red represents the blood.
• The blood represents life.
• The blood makes atonement of sin for life
• There can be no atonement without a sacrifice.
• There is no sacrifice without crucifixion.
• There is no crucifixion without betrayal.

                                    For the life of a creature is in the blood,

And I have given it to you to make atonement

For yourselves on the altar, for it is the blood

That makes atonement for one’s life.

Leviticus 17:11

 This is my blood of the covenant, which is

Poured out for many for the forgiveness of

Sins.

Matthew 26: 28

Prophetically the red color portrays a picture of betrayal, suffering of the Messiah and him being offered as the ultimate sacrifice.    The color of the grape juice or the blood is scarlet or maroon red.  This color speaks of betrayal, suffering, and sacrificial death as a precondition for atonement, redemption, forgiveness and eternal life.  

White Dimension

• The white color represents the holiness of God.
• White speaks of divine purity. 
• White also represents virginity. 
• God imputes righteousness on any human being that believes in His son Jesus Christ. 
• Snow white in this regard represents the purity that only God can bestow on His own sons. 
• God sanctifies those who believe in Christ to be holy unto the Lord. 
• No human being can achieve righteousness through the effort of the flesh. 

Blue Dimension

The blue color speaks of sonship.  When a human being is forgiven sin, God bestows sonship upon that individual. 

But as many as received him, to them gave He the power

To become the sons of God.

John 1:12

But when the time had fully come, God sent His son, born

of a woman, born under the law.  To redeem those under

the law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

so you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a

son, God has made you also an heir.

Galatians 4: 4-5

Bronze Dimension

Represents the military might of the kingdom of our God.

Bless the Lord, you His angels, mighty in strength, who perform His Word.  Bless the Lord , all you His hosts, you who serve Him doing His will.

Psalm 103: 20-21

Silver Dimension

• The silver colour represents the carnal means at the disposal of humanity. 
• This is the economy that is owned and operated by man. 
• This is a prophetic signet for the economic exchange system introduced by mankind. 
• In this system you give what you have to get what you want.
• This system is driven by buying and selling.   
• When mankind fell from grace, satan usurped the wealth and its generation processes that Adam had at his disposal. The silver was transformed into the Babylon the great.
• Saints must redeem business.  The Church must play a role in Commerce through Ownership of the Economy.

Golden Dimension

• Gold also represents the economy of the kingdom of God.
• This color represents the sufficiency of God.
• It is a dispensation of entering into the rest of God.
• This color speaks of the glory of God.  It is in this golden dimension that God is.  Everything that the Word reveals about God, and everything that God is, is represented by His glory.  The glory of God is inseparable from His presence.  In the glory of God, all things are made beautiful.

God is able to make all grace, every favour and earthly

Blessing come to you in abundance, so that you may

Always and under all circumstances and whatever the

Need, be self-sufficient – possessing enough to require

No aid or support and furnished in abundance to every

Good work and charitable donations.

II Corinthians 9:8

It speaks of rarity becoming abundant.  It is a moment when God supplies all the needs of an individual according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  It is in a time like this that God over performs our expectations.  When God works results and outcomes that are “exceedingly, abundantly, above” what we have been praying for, believing for, and far above what we can imagine.  In a golden dispensation, God becomes unpredictable.  Whatever you believe, and whatever you ask for in prayer, God manifests “what the eye has not seen, what the ear has not heard, neither has entered into the imagination” superior results.  The golden dispensation is the ideal era when we access divine surplus of everything that God can provide from the physical to the invisible realms.

Purple Dimension

• The purple color speaks of royalty in action. 
• It speaks of sovereignty.
• It depicts the kingdom of God in action. This is the moment when the Sovereign God manifests an aspect of His mighty power or absolute authority to make everything conform to His will. 

“The Lord has established His throne in

 the heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all.”

Psalm 103: 19

• So the source of all power and authority is God.  Powers that be are all ordained and allowed to function by the divine counsel.  All rulers are only stewards of the power of God. Only God has absolute sovereignty and power. 

For it was in Christ that all things were created, in heaven

And on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether

Thrones, rulers or authorities, all things were exist

Through him, and in and for Him.

Collosians 1:16

THE SHADOW OF THE TRUE SANCTUARY:  CHURCH SANCTUARY ON EARTH

1.  Christ as part of the God-head co-laborers with saints to pitch this Sanctuary on earth among and in human beings.

2.  The Earthly Sanctuary is to be built as a replica of the Heavenly Sanctuary (The blueprint of the Church is the Heavenly Tabernacle).  Moses was instructed: SEE TO IT THAT YOU MAKE EVERYTHING ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN SHOWN TO YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.

3.  The Five Fold Ministry Officer stands as  Chief Priest for the Earthly Church Sanctuary.

                                                           vi.      To appropriate the benefits of the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus to whosever will.

                                                         vii.      To receive gifts, donations, and offerings from people and present them to Christ so that they can be offered in the Heavenly Sanctuary.

                                                       viii.      To take tithes for Christ to present in the INVISIBLE Heavenly Sanctuary.

                                                          ix.      Proclamation of the Promises of the New Covenant

Preaching the Word of God as the Living Christ seated on the right hand of God so that God confirms with signs and