Who Shall Dwell With the Everlasting Burnings

 

Matthew 3:5-12 Then went out to him (John the Baptist) Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And (They) were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, (That would not repent and make public confession of their sins but wanted instead to be recognized and accepted as they were.) he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: (We are therefore justified by birth) for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (As this was declared to Israel a generation before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD, so now these things are being declared unto to the church a generation before the fall, and laying of waste of Europe and the destruction and burning of the temple of the Vatican.)  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: (The Holy Spirit has expressly spoken that these are two separate events so that while close to one billion on the earth claim to be baptized with the Holy Ghost in some measure, next to none have been passed through and made clean by this fire.) Whose fan (This is a winnowers fan to separate wheat from chaff) is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge (With fire) His (Threshing) floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Here John elaborates further on this unquenchable purging fire.)

 John the Baptist is quoting from the book of Job.

Job 27:20 The rich man shall lie down (In death), but he shall not be gathered: (To God or His people) he openeth his eyes, (Awakes after death –the resurrection of the dead) and he is not. (Not unto eternal life but unto eternal death) Terrors take hold on him as waters, (It shall be with him and his kind as in the days of Noah) a tempest stealeth him away (And it shall come unto him as a thief) in the night. (Christ also quotes this verse and the verse below concerning His second coming.)

Job 27:21 (Septuagint) And a burning wind (Greek: Kauson Burning fire) shall catch him (Greek Ana-Lephetai is Ana-Lambano,  To lay hold upon or to seize upon) and he shall depart (Greek: Apelusetai To destroy and take away [Christ quotes this passage in speaking of those being swept away and taken away]) and it shall utterly drive him (Greek: Likmesei To winnow To cast aside the chaff [This is the winnowing fan John speaks of]) out of his place (Greek: Topou a specific or limited dwelling place, or abode,  A certain room or particular space [because of the presence of the winnowing fan this place is understood to be the threshing floor]) (And into the coming unquenchable fire of God.)

1 Corinthians 3:11-13 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, (The day of fire at the end of this age) because it shall be revealed (made manifest) by fire; and the fire shall try every man's (Saved and unsaved, and those in the ministry and those that have unrighteously subordinated themselves to them) work(s)  (To test and prove, to see) of what sort it is.

In the passage above, Paul the Apostle speaks also of this same purging unquenchable fire of God that John prophesied that was to come.  But here in 1 Corinthians, Paul further elucidates concerning this coming fire declaring: 1) That it had not yet occurred (Paul’s meaning here is plain, that this “Coming day of fire” had not occurred at the day of Pentecost, and this does not occur when one receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit).

We see this very thing in the Church of Corinth where its members were sinful and corrupt, so much so, that MANY in their midst were being struck with sickness, weakness, and death.  And yet Paul declares that the MANY of this church were baptized in the Spirit and excelled in all spiritual gifts, and spiritual ministries.  These things are so because in these believers, they yet had a heart of stone.  Just as the apostles in the Gospels had not yet been converted, this is exactly so today.  There are those that are in the ministry and those that are in the church, regardless of whether they have been ten, twenty, or thirty years in the Lord, or if they have been “filled” with the Spirit for ten, twenty, or thirty years, that are far more sinful and corrupt, and are yet still carnal, than those in the church of Corinth.  For if the truth be known, the seasoned believers of this hour pretend that their willfulness, their disobedience, their arrogance and their pride are spiritual virtues and worthy of praise from those who they look down upon as the great unwashed who have recently come to Christ. Therefore these, except they repent, await destruction in the coming unquenchable fire as the chaff and the tares.

To our danger and detriment, we have taught that any who have spiritual gifts or ministries – are righteous and holy and are to be obeyed and followed – Yet this was not true with either the members of the church of Corinth, or the disciples and apostles as they followed Christ in the gospels.

1 Corinthians 3:1 And I, brethren, (When I came unto you) could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Mark 4:10-16 And when He (Christ) was alone, they (The disciples) that were about Him with the twelve asked of Him the parable. (Matthew 13:10 Why speakest thou unto them in parables?)  And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. (Here Christ is declaring that in these parables He speaks spiritual things that those that are of the Spirit can perceive, hear and understand)  And He said unto them,  Know ye not this parable? (Christ declares here that even though it has been given to them of the Father to perceive, hear, and understand, that these men yet are not spiritual, but are carnal and therefore must be spoken yet to as babes despite also the fact that they were going and healing the sick and cast out devils and doing mighty works and this would have included Judas as well.) and how then will ye know all parables?

Christ here angrily addresses the apostles’ and disciples’ faithlessness in that they could not cast this demon out.

Luke 9:41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer (Ane-Zomai  Ana To stand on top or to stand over,   Zomai (Classical Greek Lexicon) To nourish [Christ here is declaring He is feeding the Apostles and Disciples with milk as babes]) you?

2) Paul instead links the fire, with the day of fire, with the coming of Elijah, and the second coming of Christ 3) Paul in saying what he says above, is citing an event that occurred in the book of Numbers, which we will see is of no small significance.

Numbers 31:20 (Hebrew interlinear) And every garment, and all things made of skin, and all work of goat’s hair, and all things made of wood shall you purify. (Paul in 1 Corinthians declares these things as wood, hay, and stubble were all put into the fire as well and destroyed.  For the possession of any of these objects in Israel and in the Church of this hour are objects of defilement and uncleanness, not only to the owner, but to the entire church in the wilderness. Paul speaks of this often when he speaks of the body and its parts. So that the perversion of doctrine and teaching in other church’s has a bearing and effect on you. As Israel was commanded to remove all evil from its midst, like wise the church is commanded to attempt first to restore and seek to cleanse its brethren, and if all fails them, to cast them out to prevent further infection.)

Numbers 31:21-23 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; (They were) Only (To take) the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, Every thing (Only things) that may abide the fire, ye shall make it (Everything) go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. – (So from Paul’s quotation of this passage, we see something hidden that we would not have known from reading 1 Corinthians 3:11-13 alone.  We see that the gold, silver, and precious stones that a man uses to build upon this foundation of Jesus Christ, are in fact, unclean before the Lord.  This same thing occurred with all the vessels and instruments of gold and silver and precious stones of the tabernacle even though they were made by Bezaleel, who was filled with the Holy Ghost and instructed by God on how to fashion all these objects. – When they were completed they were yet unclean.  So we see that all of our works, even if they are gold silver and precious stones, are unclean before the Lord. – So that in order that they might be made acceptable, they must be tried/cleansed by fire, the same fire that consumes altogether works of wood hay and stubble.)

In Numbers 31, we are told that God commanded the Israelites to avenge the Lord of the Midianites.  The Midianites were also descendants of Abraham.  In the beginning of Exodus, we find that these people also had a relationship with God, and that they had a priest of God, and they had prophets, and that they were well acquainted with the mount of God.  In fact, Moses father-in-law Reuel’s name, means the friend of God.  Further, when Aaron caused all of Israel to sin with the golden calf, God declared to Moses that he was going to destroy all of Israel and that He had another people waiting in the wings for Moses to lead in their place – those other people were the Midianites.  The Midianites are what we have declared as the Klesia (Those of a nominal minimalist relationship with God), a people that had lost favor with God and were given two choices; repent, cleanse yourselves, and join yourselves with the Ek-Klesia (The children of promise under Moses) or be displaced and come under their rule.  The Midianites, (The elder brother) angry and jealous in the same manner that the Ten elder sons of Israel were, in a fit of jealous rage sought to take Joseph out of the way – so that they might not lose their inheritance.  In this case, it was determined by the prophet Balaam that if the Midianites could make the children of Israel unclean through adultery and idolatry, that God Himself would be forced to destroy them and that they alone, despite their own sins, would remain God’s chosen people.  This has a great deal of bearing on what will occur in the last days during the great tribulation as the Klesia shall once more seek to destroy the Ek-Klesia being deceived into believing that in doing so, they will be able to remain in God’s service. (Jesus prophesied of this very thing in Matthew 24)

Numbers 31:14-16 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

We need to speak now more directly concerning the fire.

Genesis 3:24 So He (God) drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (In Genesis, the all consuming fire of God was first made to appear upon a single sword that was to guard and keep the way of the tree of life as the part of the plan of redemption.  These Cherubims and this single sword, with the all consuming fire of God, prevented not only Adam and his wife from returning to the Garden and partaking of the tree of life and forever damning themselves in their sinful state, but quite possibly their seed as well.  These Cherubims and this single flaming sword also prevented all their descendants, until the flood, from entering the garden and eating of the tree of life.  Not even Enoch, nor Noah, (Though both found great grace in the eyes of the Lord) were able to abide and pass the sword of God’s all consuming fire and enter the garden to partake of the tree of life.

Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. God Himself filled with Righteousness and Holiness, which is an all consuming fire to the wood hay and stubble that corrupt men are and those who walk in the ways of the fallen and corrupt church.  The chaff of our say-so or wannabe redemption in the end will not withstand the consuming fire of God – but lead to one’s everlasting destruction.

Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.  (Here, the all consuming Shekina of God that was once only on a sword, now is upon an entire mountain.  And one man only is able to bear it - Moses.  Consider here that the three most righteous men in Israel, Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua and Kaleb could not ascend the mount because they would have not been able to withstand the all consuming Shekina of God upon that mount. – We are not seeking just the salvation that has been sung about here, we are seeking to be able to enter the all consuming fire of the Shekina of God.)

Deuteronomy 5:4-5 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) (This is the reason that Paul and the apostles feared – for they had a revelation of what really was at stake in redemption – the revelation is this all consuming fire of God that was not just on the Holy mountain as a figure for us but the Holy, all consuming Shekina of God that is in heaven and will consume all that is unclean, unholy, and unrighteous – to walk in the light as He is in the light, is speaking of being able to dwell in this all consuming Shekina of God.)

Not too long ago I had a profound revelation from the Lord regarding what bible was available to whom.  For example King David, He had the first five books of Moses, the book of Judges, first and second Samuel, Job, and Ruth. –So that much of what David writes he is quoting and citing from these 10 books. And from these ten books and the word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Father -- David had the greatest revelations recorded in the word concerning the coming Christ, His suffering, death and resurrection.  David also had profound insights into the mysteries of God regarding His creation of man and His purposes concerning the church.

Psalm 24:3-5 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? (Here, David is not speaking of Mount Zion [Though every bible teacher says so] because the temple had not yet been built there by his son, Solomon – David is Speaking of the Holy Mount that burned with fire.) or who shall stand in His holy place? (From the context, David is not speaking here of the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle of Moses, he is speaking of Moses standing on the top of the Mount amid the where he was allowed to see the heavenlies where God dwells.) He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.  (David is ascribing what he saw in Moses (Moses Character) that allowed him to ascend the mount of fire and enter into the True Holy Place in the heavens – So that Moses might return to men, instruct Bezaleel and the others on what to construct, to build an earthly representation of what he had seen and heard of God in the heavens.)

Isaiah prophesies also concerning this question put forth by David.

Isaiah 33:14-15 The sinners in Zion are afraid;(Ape-Stresan To be put away, To be separated, To be taken away Ape-Apo To move away from the surface     Stresan-Istimi To make to stand, To place or To set -- This is speaking of a pillar [Literally this word means the removing of their pillar, or as spoken in Revelation the removal of their candlestick])(With all that has been spoken “Prophetically” of Zion, here, Isaiah is seeing with the eye of the Spirit, the coming of not the sword of the all consuming fire of God, not the mount of the all consuming fire of God, but the day of fire where the whole earth, filled with the all consuming Shekina of God.) fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. (Greek: Anomoi – The lawless ones [Of Zion]) Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?  (Who shall abide the day of fire when The Everlasting Burnings shall descend with a shout and the trumpet of God shall sound as it did in the days of Moses as they stood before the mount of God. But instead of The descending all consuming fire of God creating a burning mount, The entire earth shall be filled with The Everlasting Burnings of the Shekina of God [Isaiah here is prophesying the same thing that David and Job prophesied]) He that walketh righteously, (Paul calls this walking in the Spirit) and speaketh uprightly (Eu-Theian Eu Joyfully or Joyously Theian-Theion Brimstone and fire --The bodily substance of Theos God –[This is one joyfully speaking of God and the everlasting burnings of His Shekina] That was seen in a figure in the tabernacle in the wilderness and temple of Solomon.) (Odon- This is untranslated Odon-Odos- A threshold  the word also means A road, A path, A highway [We would declare “Eu-Theian Odon” To be speaking by the Spirit, From on the Threshold before the everlasting burnings of God – As Moses, David and Isaiah experienced); he that despiseth (Hateth) the gain of oppressions, (The false tithe, the false offering, and the prosperity Gospel that are used to prey upon the poorest and weakest members of the church) that shaketh his hands from holding (receiving) of bribes (That would distort one’s judgment), that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood (So that he is fearless --- loving not his life unto death), and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; (So that he can minister and preach the Gospel with his whole heart.)

Matthew 3:5-12 Then went out to him (John the Baptist) Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And (They) were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, (That would not repent and make public confession of their sins but wanted instead to be recognized and accepted as they were.) he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: (We are therefore justified by birth) for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (As this was declared to Israel a generation before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD, so now these things are being declared unto to the church a generation before the fall and laying of waste of Europe and the destruction and burning of the temple of the Vatican.)  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: (The Holy Spirit has expressly spoken that these are two separate events so that while close to one billion on the earth claim to be baptized with the Holy Ghost in some measure, next to none have been passed through and made clean by this fire.) Whose fan (This is a winnowers fan to separate wheat from chaff) is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge (With fire) His (Threshing) floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Job 27:21 (Septuagint) And a burning wind (Greek: Kauson Burning fire) shall catch him (Greek Ana-Lephetai is Ana-Lambano,  To lay hold upon or to seize upon) and he shall depart (Greek: Apelusetai To destroy and take away [Christ quotes this passage in speaking of One left and One being swept away and One being left and one being taken away]) and it shall utterly drive him (Greek: Likmesei To winnow To cast aside the chaff [This is the winnowing fan John speaks of]) out of his place (Greek: Topou a specific or limited dwelling place, or abode,  A certain room or particular space [because of the presence of the winnowing fan this place is understood to be the threshing floor] And into the all consuming fire of God.)

2 Peter 3:9-12 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements (Stoichia – A row, A straight rod, A measuring stick [The intellectual or religious system]) shall melt (Luthe-Sontai, Luth-Luo To loosen To unbind or To unfasten –Sontai-Eimi To be to exist or to add force to a word or sentence [To forcibly loosen, unbind or release -- by fire]) with fervent heat (kau-Sou-Mena Kau-Kaio To burn or kindle,[Burning fire] Sou Thine, {Friends or Kindred}  Mena-Meno To dwell or to abide under the influence of ruler ship of [This is the friends or kinsmen that can abide and dwell under the rule of the everlasting burnings] So that these shall be unbound from the klesia that so sought to bind them), the earth also and the works (Erga works) that are therein shall be burned up. (Kata-ka-Hsetai Kata-A downward motion Kae- Kaio Burning fire Hsetai –Eimi To be to exist or to add force to a word or sentence [This is a descending and forcible all consuming of God]) Seeing then that all these things (Touton These things or These very same things) shall be dissolved, (Luo-Menon Luo To loosen To unbind or To unfasten Menon Meno To dwell or To abide under the influence of ruler ship of. [This is that which is loosened unbound and unfastened either being able to abide and dwell under the rulership of the all consuming fire of God or to be obliterated.) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (What kind of walk and Godliness do you suppose you might need so that you might be able to dwell therein) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire (Pur-Ou-Menoi Pur Fiery, Fierce flames, Ou-Ostis Wheresoever, Meno one abides or dwells) shall be dissolved, (Luthe-Sontai, Luth-Luo To loosen To unbind or To unfasten –Sontai-Eimi To be to exist or to add force to a word or sentence [To forcibly loosen, unbind or release -- by fire]) and the elements (Stoichia – A row, A straight rod, A measuring stick[The intellectual or religious system])  shall melt (Teketai-Teko- To dissolve, To render into Liquid, To melt) with fervent heat? (kau-Sou-Mena Kau-Kaio To burn or kindle,[Burning fire] Sou Thine, {Friends or Kindred}  Mena-Meno To dwell or to abide under the influence of ruler ship of [This is the friends or kindsmen that dwell under the rule of the everlasting burnings] )

When Moses built the tabernacle in the wilderness, it was built to reflect what was in the heavens – what all the teachers that write and speak on this subject, is that there is a Holy of Holies that God dwells in and that anything like the priests that would enter unclean or unrighteous, these would be consumed by the unquenchable fire of God.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might (Possibly) redeem us from all iniquity, (Anomias Lawlessness) and (Possibly) purify (Katharise [Aorist 1 imperfect active again and again and again] Continually purifies or purifieth) unto himself a peculiar people, (A people that are) zealous of good works. (The question in this passage is Titus saying that this purifying or cleansing or purging of “our lawlessness” is Christ’s winking at our sins so as to allow us to continue in our sins and unrighteousness?  Or is this rather Christ, through His death on the cross and the shedding of His blood, seeking to cleanse and purge His threshing floor within us that He has purchased, by first what we will freely give of ourselves and then completing this purifying, cleansing, and purging with physical trials and physical tribulation [Which are in a figure – the all consuming cleansing fire of God that is to come?)

So that what Peter, Isaiah, David, and Job write of here is that the Holy of Holies shall be opened, and this all consuming fire of God will be released in the heavens and upon earth and shall consume all that dwell therein, aka, the devil, and his angels and all that dwell in the earth.  Only those that have entered into true personal conversion, and have personally received as Abraham to be accounted righteous by God himself –  shall be able to abide that day.

These things are not at all what has been preached in the church concerning salvation.  Nothing in recent memory has been taught concerning the coming day of fire. – (Though there was a time in the 1800’s that there were those that seemed to have some idea about these things) The culture of corruption that is within the teaching and preaching ministries of our day has blinded them to the place that none understand any of these things.  This is largely due because they preach and teach the precepts of dead men, listening to their tapes and CDs, reading their books, study notes, Bible handbooks, and worthless commentaries, seeking for truth among these men’s doctrines and traditions, when it is not there.

Leviticus 26:26-28 And (In that day) when I have broken the staff of your bread, (Your corrupt doctrine and teaching) ten women (Teachers and ministries) shall bake your bread in one oven, (On Radio, TV, or the Internet or by books in your bookstore) and they shall deliver you your (corrupt) bread again by weight: (In full measure, As much as you lust and hunger after) and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. And if ye will (Repent not and will) not for all this (For my reaching and calling unto you and) hearken unto me, (And instead continue in your corrupt doctrine and teaching from these teachers you have heaped to yourself) but (and) walk contrary (Depart from or abandon) unto me; (And consort and disciple yourselves with all your living and dead lovers) Then I will walk contrary (Depart from or abandon) unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times (Seven fold) for your sins.

Isaiah 55:2-3 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not (True) bread? (By buying and supporting those who teach and preach false doctrine and traditions, whether it be in Churches, house meetings, on the radio, TV, the Internet, or in books and commentaries and study materials from bookstores) And your labour for that which satisfieth not? (Study in vain with all these materials and teachers you have heaped to yourself).  Hearken diligently unto me, (Come unto me alone, Turn away from all of these And repent and) and eat ye that which is good, (One’s daily bread that proceedeth from the mouth of the Father, That which the Holy Spirit teacheth) -- Incline your ear, and come unto me: (This is the taking upon you the yoke of Christ and learning of Him,) hear, and your soul shall live . . (Man shall not live by bread alone [Our daily bread includes] but by every word that proceedeth from the Father – This how we partake of the life of Christ and abide in Him.)

So reading what the Lord has illuminated here concerning the coming all consuming fire of the Shekina of God to cleanse the heavens and the earth, we can now begin to see why Paul, and other holy men of God feared, – for they knew of a truth what was to come.  So much so that they feared for the church, and they feared for themselves.

We are now going to attempt to pull all this together with a brief discussion of the tabernacle of Moses.

(On a personal note here, I have never been particularly fond of the “Teachings of the Tabernacle” as in the normal fare passed off as great biblical truth, men ascribe meanings that are wholly unscriptural to colors, numbers, and a variety of raw materials that were used in constructing the tabernacle in the wilderness.  Thereby, these men are able to preach virtually anything they want, good, bad or indifferent.  But the truth is, there is simply no verse that says “Thus saith the Lord, the number 5 is the number of grace.  And equally there is no verse that say, thus saith the Lord, gold speaks of the Divine Nature.  The fact is that there are simply no verses that declare the meanings or ascribe spiritual significance to the greater majority of numbers, colors, or materials used in building the tabernacle.  So, we openly declare here, that those who teach such things do so to their own shame, by either speaking things that been made up, whether by themselves or by others that have long been dead.)

Exodus 25:8-10 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.  According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Exodus 25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Numbers 8:3-4 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses.

Hebrews 8:5 -- As Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

So Moses ascends the hill of the Lord (The Holy Mount that burned with fire) And as Moses prayed (Acting as their intercessor) standing amid the all consuming Shekina of God -- because Moses had attained to a certain level of righteousness and holiness, he was not consumed. (This righteousness and holiness had been acquired sometime after his encounter with the burning bush – For we read that the angel of the Lord came to slay Moses over his disobedience, sin and corruption regarding circumcision) – And as Moses stood in the Holy Place amid the roiling Shekina, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw things in the heavens that as Paul said later; spoke of his own catching up: Were unspeakable.

God commanded Moses that according to the exact pattern he saw in the heavens, he was to build an earthly representation of it in: the tabernacle in the wilderness.  Which contained an outer court, and inner court, where the laver and the brazen alter were,  It contained within the tent the holy place, where the candlestick, the alter of incense, and the table of showbread were, and the Holy of Holies that was veiled with a seamless thick veil behind, in which the ark of the covenant and the Shekina of God dwelt.

We read that when the priests that were the sons of Aaron came to defile the Holy Place with strange fire – the Shekina of God came out of the Holy of Holies and consumed them.

In many places in the Old Testament we read of the Shekina of God manifesting itself -- in shining glory or a flame of fire (I see now as the Lord began to open and reveal the things in this article by His Spirit that these manifestations are one and the same) in scripture we read of the Shekina immobilizing the priests of the tabernacle and the temple so they could not minister, we read of the Shekina immobilizing and felling those who had sought to kill David, we read of the Shekina falling from heaven and consuming offerings both at the tabernacle, the temple and with Elijah.  And likewise, in the New Testament, we read of that many manifestations of the Shekina of God are seen and felt by the apostles, the disciples and those who later surrendered their lives to Christ and were baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.  In this hour, a few have experienced in a limited measure, some of these very things – the reason we say few and in a limited fashion, is the level of disobedience, sin and corruption that dwells in those that believe in this hour, disobedience, sin and corruption that the holiness and righteousness of God can not abide.

So we live in a day that regardless of all that has been taught by men – it yet remains that the day of fire has not yet come.

For in heaven, there is the true tabernacle of God, and within it is the true Holy of Holies, which in heaven is behind a veil that shields and protects in this dispensation of grace and redemption, all that dwell in the heavens and all that dwell upon the earth from the full force of the Holiness and Righteousness of God, in the person of the all consuming Shekina of God that dwells within.  We have our true high priest -- Jesus Christ, who only can enter the all consuming Shekina within the veil and intercede and atone for us individually.

But Peter declares that in the day of fire, this filtering veil shall be done away with, as at the moment of Christ’s death in the earthly temple in Jerusalem the veil was rent top to bottom.  And at that moment when the last trump of God shall sound, as in Exodus, the all consuming fire of God descended upon the mount, so in the day of fire, the all consuming Shekina of God will burn the heavens, consuming the devil and his angels, and anything that is in heaven that has not come into true and full sanctification, that has not been made fully and wholly righteous, that has not had its stony heart removed and replaced with a heart of flesh, that has not been fully and wholly converted as Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, and the apostles, and any that wholly and fully dwell not in the Agape of God.

All who have not entered into this high calling of God will be consumed and purged out of the heavens.  Peter then further states that this same, all consuming Shekina of God, descend and fall upon the earth and consume all the chaff and tares, so that all that shall remain in the heavens and the earth shall be those that who can dwell with the “Everlasting burnings.”

We need to see that being “Judicially saved” according to the corrupt and sinful doctrines and traditions of men – can not and will not save anyone one from the coming day of fire.

This is not an issue of water baptism or the baptism of the Holy Ghost, for these are but tutors and governors to bring you in the way of righteousness and holiness, but it is only he that finishes the race, that enters into full conversion, being individually justified by God as Abraham, Job, Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel, and the Apostles, and thereby becoming the friend of God that has entered into this high calling.

No amount of confession or profession can prepare one for that day, regardless of what they have been taught regarding the false doctrine of the rapture or its daughter doctrines in the Restoration Gospel in which the church is being progressively restored so that it is so “glorious” Christ must return to collect His bride , Or the Manifested Sons of God teachings in which we will become, in effect, Christ’s all over the earth and take the earth for the kingdom of Christ and usher in the millennium.  All these are say-so-gospels, in which for no reason than for knowing this secret doctrine, we shall, without merit or reading the Bible or prayer or repentance or entering into sanctification, suddenly be sucked into these various raptures.  And for all intents and purposes, fly away from the sufferings of the great tribulation.  None of this will happen, not even in part or in a limited measure.

Isaiah 59:15-16 Yea, truth faileth; (This is the failing of the church of the gentiles in the latter days, which Christ calls “The time of the Gentiles” and “The fullness of the Gentiles”) and he that departeth from evil (The little ones) maketh himself a prey: (To the evil and perversion of the end-time Church of the Gentiles) and the LORD saw it, and it displeased (Angered or enraged) Him that there was no judgment (In the church and among the people of God). And He saw that there was no man, (This is the lack of any man of righteousness and judgment in the end-time church) and wondered that there was no intercessor: (He saw the narcissistic day in which we live where it is every denomination, every church, every ministry, and every preacher and teacher for themselves) therefore His arm brought salvation unto him;(The little ones) and His righteousness, it sustained him(The little ones).

Isaiah 63:4-6 For the day of vengeance (The day of fire) is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. (The day of redemption of the little ones) And I looked, and there was none to help; (No man) and I wondered that there was none to uphold: (No intercessor) therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people (The unrighteous, unholy, gentile church) in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. (Till they are no more – blotted out or their candlestick is removed)

Peter asks, Seeing then that all these things -- what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation (Striving in your daily walk, to walk in holiness and righteousness before God and men) and godliness, (And to perfect in you the image and likeness of Christ)  

For of a truth those are the only ones among us that shall be able to dwell with The Everlasting Burnings.