The Glory of the Shekinah in the Most Holy Place – Introduction

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and those in different countries, ministers and churches gathered today, Friday, praising God at this end time. And warm greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín where he is, and also to Reverend José Benjamín Pérez in Puerto Rico, there in the Church in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

For tonight let’s read in Exodus chapter 40, verses 33 and on. Exodus 40, verses 33 to 38, says:

“And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

Our subject for this occasion is: “THE GLORY OF THE SHEKINAH IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”

That is the Bible Study for next Sunday, God willing; and on this occasion we will make the introduction for next Sunday’s Bible study, which will be: “THE GLORY OF THE SHEKINAH IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”

Moses built the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shown to him in Heaven, there on Mount Sinai;¹ because the tabernacle on Earth is the representation of the heavenly Temple.

We find that the tabernacle was made for God to dwell in it, in the most holy place.

We find that on one occasion the sons of Aaron (who was the high priest) entered the most holy place and died; and they were Levites, sons of the high priest, who were working in the tabernacle; but they had to do things the way they were established.

They thought that because they were descendants of Aaron and they were priests (not high priests, but priests), they thought that they could do things their way. And look at the history of those who do things their way.

There are some people who say: “As long as I do them for God, God will receive them anyway.” God receives things that are done for Him if the person does them as God has established in His Word.

Others say: “However I do them, since it is for God, it’s fine.” God is the One for whom we should do things the best way, and willingly, not feeling obligated by someone or by the church, or by yourself, but willingly, with Love Divine, because it is for God, wholeheartedly.

Leviticus chapter 10 tells us the story. It says (verse 1 and on):

“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.

So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.

And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.”

Neither Aaron nor his sons who remained alive were allowed to mourn Aaron’s two sons who were burned by Divine fire. They went with incense to offer strange fire to God; something that God didn’t ask to be offered to Him. It had to be as God had already established through the prophet Moses.

Now, let’s turn to chapter 16, and there we will see something else about the most holy place. Chapter 16 of Leviticus, verse 1 and on, says:

“And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died;

And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail…”

Meaning that he should not come into the most holy place just any day, rather He will establish for him which he can enter the most holy place.

“And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not…”

Because if he just came in any day, the same thing that happened to his sons would happen to him; but so that he wouldn’t die, it was established for him the day that he could enter to present the atoning blood, and enter with the censer into the most holy place there.

“… for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.”

In other words, God would appear upon the cover of the ark of the covenant, which is the mercy seat, where the two cherubims of gold are looking to the mercy seat, looking to where the Presence of God is in the cloud of Glory.

Now notice:

“Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.”

Not into the most holy place with the bullock, instead, he has to take it, sacrifice it himself.

“He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired.”

The mitre that he wears on his head, which, on the forehead there, on the mitre, has the Name of God on a plate of gold.

“These are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.”

In other words, in order for Aaron to be able to enter the most holy place, notice everything he had to do: dress the right way… Believers also have a Divine commandment to dress the right way as believers in Christ; and spiritually: to be dressed in the Wedding Garment, which is the Holy Spirit.

And Aaron had to enter, make the sacrifice of the goat, and send the other goat into the wilderness through a person appointed to do that. Those two goats represent Christ: Christ being sacrificed for us, and His Blood being taken to the Presence of God in Heaven, to the Mercy Seat, which is the Throne of God there in Heaven. And the other goat that was a scapegoat, which was sent into the wilderness: Christ was sent to the fifth dimension, to hell, taking our sins; He took them far away, for our sake. In other words, both goats represent Christ.

That entire Divine Order, later also in the new temple that was built in Israel, in Jerusalem, by King Solomon, they also had these ordinances. And in the most holy place, in addition to the two cherubims of gold that were on the mercy seat, Solomon placed two cherubims that covered the whole ark of the covenant, two cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold.² There we have the Two Olive Trees. The human part: the wood, and the Divine part: gold; because gold always represents Divinity.

To the tabernacle that Moses built, when he dedicated it to God… it was finished and he dedicated it to God, the Presence of God, the Shekinah, came and dwelt in that tabernacle that Moses built.³ And there, in the most holy place, between the two cherubims of gold that were on the mercy seat, God dwelt there; that was the place or seat or Throne of God in that tabernacle in the midst of the Hebrew people, because it was made a house for God to dwell in it.

Then the temple that Solomon built was a house for God to dwell in the midst of Israel, in the tabernacle or temple that Solomon built, in the most holy place, upon the ark of the covenant, which is the golden mercy seat, the cover, with the two cherubims of gold; there in the midst dwelt the Presence of God, the Shekinah;⁴ and that was God’s Throne in the midst of the Hebrew people, there in the temple that was built by King Solomon.

All of that is a type and figure of the human being, of Christ, and also of the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Scripture says that the human being is a temple;⁵ and those who serve God are a temple of God. He who doesn’t serve God has dedicated his temple to the enemy. There are temples for God and there are pagan temples. Those who don’t serve God become like pagan temples; but they will serve someone: either God or the enemy; and they will either do the will of God or of the enemy of God.

When Christ was on Earth, there in Saint John chapter 2, the Scripture tells us that in front of the temple, Christ… He says: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” People thought He was speaking about the temple of stones, to destroy it, and that is why in the accusation they were making against Him—there on the day that He was being judged by the Sanhedrin—some said… – witnesses rose saying that He had said to destroy the temple, that He was inciting the destruction of the temple that was in Jerusalem.

But notice what He had said: chapter 2, verse 18 and on, says [John]:

“Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?”

In other words, He had cast the merchants out of the temple, He had overthrown the tables of the moneychangers, and all those things. And He had said to them: “My Father’s house is a house of prayer, and you have made it a house of thieves.”

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

But he spake of the temple of his body.

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.”

Now notice how Jesus identifies His body as a Temple of God.

The most important part of the human being as a temple of God, is his soul; because the soul is the most holy place of the human temple.

That is why just as the temple that Solomon built and the tabernacle that Moses built, it had an outer court (which is a type and figure of the physical body), it had a holy place (which is a type and figure of a person’s spirit), and it had the most holy place (which is a type and figure of the person’s soul, and is the place for God to dwell)… It is also called the heart. That is why people say: “Give your heart to Christ.” And the Scripture also says:

[Proverbs 4:23] “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

The heart is a type and figure of a person’s soul; and according to the discoveries that have been made, it has a brain, it has neurons, it thinks. That is why the Scripture says: “The thoughts (of what?) of the heart.”⁶ It says that Jesus knew the thoughts of their hearts.⁷

And now, we saw that in the tabernacle that Moses built, the Shekinah Glory, the Presence of God in that cloud, came and dwelt in that tabernacle, in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold.

In Heaven the cherubims are made of gold, they are Gabriel and Michael. And in the earthly temple, they are represented in two cherubims of gold, in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built. And, in addition, in the temple that Solomon built, he placed two giant cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold.

The Two Olive Tree Cherubims or Messengers are the two olive trees of Zechariah chapter 4, verse 1 to 14; and also Revelation chapter 2; which don’t appear in the other parts of the temple, instead they appear in the most holy place of the temple that King Solomon built.

And we find that they will appear at the Last Day, in the spiritual Temple of Christ—which is His Church—in the Most Holy Place, as it was shown on Mount Transfiguration: Moses and Elijah, one on each side of the Lord; because there the disciples (Peter, James, and John) were being shown the order of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels.

So, everything we saw in the tabernacle that Moses built and in the temple that King Solomon built, will be seen materialized in the Tabernacle or Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church. As simple as that.

Therefore, all of that was a type and figure of what is in Heaven and—therefore—what God will materialize in His spiritual Temple, which is His Church. That is where the Glory of God will be seen, as it was seen on Mount Transfiguration, as it was seen upon entering the tabernacle that Moses built, and as it was seen upon entering the temple that King Solomon built. And remember that in those temples it was seen when the construction was finished and the temple or tabernacle was dedicated to God.

And at this end time, upon the completion of the building made out of living stones, believers, which are each placed in their age, when the part of the Most Holy Place is complete, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, it will be dedicated to God, and the Presence of God in the Coming of the Lord to His Temple… because the Scripture says that the Lord will come to His Temple.⁸

His Coming will be to His spiritual Temple, His Church, because He comes to glorify His Church; because the Glory of the Lord will enter, will glorify His spiritual Temple: He will resurrect those who died into glorified bodies, and those who are alive He will glorify them, He will transform them, to take them with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

But before that, there will be a full manifestation of the Presence of God’s Glory on Earth, in His spiritual Temple, which is His Church; in His Temple as a Mystical Body and in every believer in Christ as a spiritual temple, which the fullness of God, the Glory of God will enter into, and It will be glorified. And this way, both the human temple as an individual, as well as the Temple of humans: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, will have the Glory of God, as it was represented in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built.

And as we saw the Glory of God in Christ… because on Mount Transfiguration, Jesus glorified Himself there before His apostles, God’s Glory was seen there, the Order of His Coming was seen there. And the disciples, especially John… He had said to him: “There are some standing here,” (in chapter 16 of Saint Matthew), “which shall not taste of death,” (meaning that they will not die), “till they see the Son of Man coming…” Let’s read it so that you have it clear, since… Chapter 16, verse 27 to 28, says:

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

In other words, the Son of Man, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will come; He will come as the Son of Man with His Angels. His Angels are Moses and Elijah. Those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees that will be in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Coming to His Church.

“… and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here…”

“Some…” He didn’t say everyone, because not everyone would see the event of Mount Transfiguration.

“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

And when He took them to Mount Transfiguration, He fulfilled the promise to them there, because they died later on; but they didn’t die without first seeing the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, coming in His Kingdom, which is His Church.

His Kingdom here on Earth is His Church; because upon being born again, the believers in Christ have entered into the Kingdom of God, where Christ is and to which He comes at the end time.

Colossians chapter 2 and chapter 1. Let’s read in chapter 1, where it says… verses 12 to 14, says:

“…Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son…”

When a believer in Christ is born again, he is born into the Kingdom of Christ, the Kingdom of God, which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been born into; and therefore, every day, those who will be saved and with whom the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, are added to the Kingdom of God, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And Christ coming to His Church, that is Christ coming to His Kingdom and in His Kingdom, which is where God’s blessings through Christ are, for all the believers in Christ; that is where all the blessings of Abraham are, for the seed of Abraham by faith in Christ.

Therefore, the royal seed of Abraham are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant; and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the One that has the promise of the Coming of the Lord to His Church, to His Temple, to His Kingdom. And that will be the Coming of the Shekinah, of God’s Presence, when His Church is completed and dedicated to God through Christ at the end time; because the number of those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will have been completed in His Church.

Christ cannot come without the number of those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life being completed first, for whom Christ has been making intercession in Heaven for around two thousand years, since the Day of Pentecost.

“THE GLORY OF THE SHEKINAH IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”

We see It in the Bible in the time of Moses, in the most holy place of the temple or tabernacle that he built when he dedicated it to God. We see the Shekinah in the temple that Solomon built, after he built it and dedicated it to God. We saw the Shekinah in the human Temple: Jesus. And we will see the Shekinah in the spiritual Temple of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, when it is completed and dedicated to God.

Remember that Moses dedicated the tabernacle and Solomon dedicated the temple.

At the Last Day one of the Two Olive Trees will be present: the ministry of Moses, and the Son of David will be present. Therefore, there will be a dedication of the spiritual Temple of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Two Olive Trees: the ministries of Moses and Elijah, will be present. Remember that Elijah restored God’s altar there on Mount Carmel.⁹

So, let’s leave that to be continued next Sunday, because today is only the introduction to the Bible study for the day after tomorrow, Sunday, from here from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

The Glory of God… “THE GLORY OF THE SHEKINAH IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”

In order to wait for and see the Shekinah Glory, one must know which is the Temple and which is the part of the Temple that pertains to the Most Holy Place.

With the information we have already had we now know where to expect the manifestation of the Shekinah Glory at this end time. That will result in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. Let’s stop there. We will continue next Sunday, God willing.

May God bless all of you who are present here in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, all of you there in Puerto Rico, and all of you in the Republic of Mexico and in other countries of Latin America, of North America, and of other nations.

Continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ in the age that pertains to us: the Age of the Cornerstone, waiting for the full manifestation of the Shekinah.

“THE GLORY OF THE SHEKINAH IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE.”