Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship on this beautiful occasion in which you have dedicated this place for service to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Whenever we dedicate to God a place for the preaching of His Word and the gathering of believers, we always remember when Moses dedicated the tabernacle to God and when King Solomon dedicated the temple to God.
And now, being that both the temple built by Solomon and the tabernacle built by the prophet Moses are type and figure of the heavenly Temple… And ―therefore― type and figure of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Let’s see what it tells us here, when Solomon built the temple to God, in Second Chronicles, chapter 5, verse 13 to 14. It says:
“…as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.”
This was when Solomon dedicated the temple to God.
And now let’s also see when Moses dedicated the tabernacle to God. Exodus, chapter 40, verse 34 to 35, says:
“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 now, we read in Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 5 to 6, where it says:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our topic is: “DEDICATING THE HOUSE OF GOD.”
Now notice, before the glory of God enters in all His fullness into the house that is being built, it is built for God, first that House has to be built for God.
We find the temple that Solomon built and the tabernacle that Moses built, as a house built for God and then dedicated to God. And having all that is relevant, according to the model that God showed Moses, that house was received. That tabernacle was received by God, and God dwelt in it: He entered into that tabernacle and passed into the most holy place and rested upon the mercy seat, which represents the Throne of God in Heaven; and we find that there are two golden cherubim there, which in Heaven are the Archangels Gabriel and Michael.
And now, we find that the same thing happened when King Solomon built and then dedicated the house to God, because it was built for the Name of God, for the Name of the Lord, the Name of God: YHWH; and it was dedicated to God when it was built.
And God received it, and dwelt in that house. He entered into that house, and dwelt in the most holy place, upon the ark of the covenant, upon the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim. And there were also two giant cherubim of olive wood there, with their wings extended, one on each side; and in the midst of the two golden cherubim (but covered with gold, which were of olive wood), notice, under the wings of these cherubim was the ark of the covenant. Inside the ark: the tables of the Law, Aaron’s rod that budded, and also the hidden manna there (in a golden vessel). All of that was there, and it was under the wings of the two cherubim. And God dwelt there in the most holy place upon the mercy seat.
Now, all that is type and figure of what is in Heaven and of what in the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the House of Jesus Christ… A house is a family, therefore, both the house that Solomon built for God and the house that Moses built, represent the House of Jesus Christ, His Church, which is His spiritual Temple.
And now, Jesus Christ is the one who builds a House for God, since the house that Moses built is no longer there, nor the house that Solomon built is no longer there; and there is no house for God in Jerusalem. But now Christ has been building a House for God with living stones, with human beings, for a long time.
He built the Outer Court with human beings: from Adam to Christ; then the Holy Place with human beings also: from Christ to the seventh angel messenger; and now, in the Last Day, He is building the Most Holy Place of His House with human beings also; because it is a House for God. “For ye are (as individuals) the temple of God (house of God).”1 And with people who are a house of God, Christ builds His spiritual House, His Church.
And now, when that House is completed (which will be completed in this end time, when every last one of the elect will enter into the House of God, into the Most Holy Place), the construction of the House of Christ will be completed there, which is His Church, and it will be dedicated to God, for God to dwell in all His fullness in that spiritual House, in that spiritual Temple.
And now, God dwelt in the house that Solomon built and in the one built by the prophet Moses. And now, notice, God will dwell in all His fullness in the House that Jesus Christ has been building.
Now, in the construction of that House we find that God has been manifested in what is the first fruits of the Spirit, producing the new birth, and thus producing the different parts of the Holy Place; in other words, building that Holy Place with human beings who have received Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit; and thus they have been born in the House of God, in the Family of God, as sons and daughters of God.
And now, for this end time, in the House of God, the Family of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, the elect of the Last Day are called and gathered, for Christ to complete the construction of His spiritual House, His Church, His Family, His offspring.
Notice, in Ephesians, chapter 2, Saint Paul tells us, speaking to us about this House of God: it says, chapter 2, verse 19 to 22:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”
Every person living on this Earth has wished to be a child of a king, to belong to the royal family, to the royalty of some nation.
And now, notice, all the elect of God, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, are children of a king: of the King of the Heavens and the Earth, they are members of the heavenly Royalty, they are members of the Family of God – and members of the Family of God.
That is why we are kings and priests, because the Father of the Family, who is Jesus Christ, is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and High Priest of the heavenly Temple. He is Melchizedek, Priest of the Most High God; therefore, His children are priests too, they are of the heavenly Priestly Order.
Therefore, there must be a House, a Temple, and those are the priests of the heavenly Temple, together with Christ, the Priest of the heavenly Temple, High Priest.
And now, that offspring of King Melchizedek and Priest, High Priest Melchizedek, form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; therefore, they form, as Mystical Body of believers, they form the spiritual Temple of Christ, where God will dwell in all His fullness when that Temple is finished and dedicated to God.
Currently He has been dwelling in the first fruits of the Spirit, but when that Temple is completed and dedicated to God, Christ will receive it.
Christ receives His Church, which is His spiritual Temple, He comes to His spiritual Temple in the Last Day, at the dedication of that Temple, in all His fullness; and thus He will bring the redemption of the body, which is the transformation of our bodies, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and our transformation. And then the House of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, will be dedicated and inhabited by God in all His fullness, to serve God during the Millennial Kingdom.
But before that, notice, we have an invitation to go to a great feast, to a great supper —and we are not going to miss that one—: that is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. So, notice, a great event in Heaven, the seventh dimension, awaits us.
Being priests of the Order of Melchizedek, together with Christ the High Priest, for He will gather us in the heavenly Temple, in the seventh dimension, for that great feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
What will be happening there will be so great that we have not even grasped half of it yet; not even a fourth part.
Now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, notice, when she is dedicated when she completed: Christ comes from Heaven (from the seventh dimension, from the Throne of the Father)…, He finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, takes the Title Deed and opens it in Heaven, and comes: and He will resurrect the dead in Christ and He will transform us. All that corresponds to His Reclaiming Work.
And then we will be here (being in the new body, together with the saints that will be resurrected in the new body), we will be here for 30 to 40 days; and this will be that stage of dedication and welcoming of that spiritual Temple on behalf of God. And the glory of God will be manifested in all His fullness in the House of Jesus Christ, the Family of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And God will be dwelling in all His fullness in His Church and in each one of the members of His Church as individuals. We will have the double portion. And what does that mean?
It means that we will have the theophanic body, which is received when the person receives Christ as his Savior, washes his sins in His Blood and receives the Holy Spirit: and thus he obtains the new birth and receives a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; because whenever there is a birth, well, a body must have been born.
And now, for the Last Day, this end time, we will obtain a new, eternal, immortal and incorruptible body with the transformation; and thus we will have the double portion; the double portion of the theophanic body and the physical, eternal and glorified body. And God will be manifested in all His fullness in all of us, and we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now notice the House of God in the New Testament. It is no longer the tabernacle built by Moses nor the temple built by King Solomon, but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that House has not yet been dedicated to God, for Him to dwell in all His fullness.
He is in the first fruits of the Spirit, calling and gathering His children from age to age, sealing them with the Seal of the living God for the Day of Redemption, for the day when we who are alive will be transformed, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected; and thus we will have the new body.
Because God will glorify the House of His glory, says Isaiah, chapter 60. There the prophet Isaiah gives us a great revelation, which will be fully fulfilled in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Chapter 60, verse 7, says:
“…they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.”
And now, the House of the glory of God is neither the temple built by Solomon nor the one built by Moses, but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Also the Hebrew people as a nation is the House of God; that is why the Throne of David will be there, Christ on the Throne of David there in Jerusalem, and there will be the Church of Jesus Christ with Christ during the Millennial Kingdom.
But now, we have the earthly Israel, the Hebrew people, but we have the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest thing that the Spirit of God has on Earth, it is the Temple of God on Earth. And God has not yet manifested Himself in all His fullness in His Church, and look at the wonderful things that have happened during all these centuries that have passed.
Now, how will it be when Christ concludes the construction of this Temple, and it is dedicated to God for the dwelling of God in Holy Spirit in all His fullness?
The glory of God will be in the Church of Jesus Christ in all His fullness. And during the Millennial Kingdom, the glory of God in the Church of Jesus Christ will be manifested to such a degree that everyone will see that manifestation of God; and the Millennial Kingdom is only the honeymoon of Christ with His Church. Christ with His Church during the Millennial Kingdom, so He will be during the Millennial Kingdom.
Now, there are —of course— there are a few mysteries that can’t be spoken for the moment, because it is not yet convenient that they are spoken, since they correspond to the Millennial Kingdom; but remember one thing: that everything that we will have in the Millennial Kingdom, first, we find that Christ manifests it in His Church, here on Earth, before we reach the Millennial Kingdom.
For example, those who will be in the Millennial Kingdom with Christ as His Church, His Bride —which will be His Wife for that time—, for they have been manifested here on Earth first, and have taken their place in the Mystical Body of Christ, in other words, in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, in that spiritual Temple.
King David said that his desire was to be in the outer courts of the House of God,2 for that time was the time of the Outer Court (from Adam until Christ); and he said that in the outer courts of the House of God he would flourish, there the righteous would flourish: in the Outer Courts of the House of God.3
So it was before Christ, in the Old Testament. But then the righteous, during the seven ages have flourished where? In the Holy Place of the House of God.
And in this end time they flourish where? In the Most Holy Place of the House of God, the House of Jesus Christ.
And now, just as David desired to live in the Outer Courts of the House of God, then the apostles and the seven angel messengers with their groups, desired to live in the Holy Place of the House of God; and there they lived.
And now, for the Last Day, those who would wish to live in the Most Holy Place of the House of God, where are they? We are here: in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual House of God, in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ. And to be in the Most Holy Place is to be in the Age of the Cornerstone.
That is the most important place, the highest place, of the spiritual Temple of Christ; just as it was the most important place in the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by King Solomon; and since it is the highest and most important place in the heavenly Temple of God, for the Most Holy Place is that seventh dimension, where God dwells, where the Throne of God is and where Christ is seated on the Throne of God making intercession with His own Blood, until the last of God’s elect enters in.
Now, we have seen the New Temple. It is no longer the temple or tabernacle built by Moses nor the one built by Solomon, but the New Temple has the same design, the same model, but with human beings.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ on this planet Earth is the representation of the heavenly Temple of God, and in each stage it represents the part of the heavenly Temple.
And now, in the stage in which we live is being represented, reflected, the part of the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple of God; it is being reflected and represented in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Where is the Name of God in Heaven? In the seventh dimension, in the Throne of God.
Now, where will the Name of God be in the House of God (the Church of Jesus Christ)? In the Most Holy Place of His spiritual House. For the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a people called for God, a people called for His Name. Just as the house that Moses built and the house that King Solomon built: the temple that King Solomon built was a house for the Name of God, for the Name of God and the presence of God to dwell there; and so is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And in every dedication of every place that we dedicate to God, for the service of God, for the preaching of the Word of God and gathering of people who receive Christ as their Savior, wash their sins in His Blood and receive His Holy Spirit, it is: each of those places that is presented to God for the service of God, is a type and figure, only a type and figure.
But the true Temple, the true Tabernacle here on Earth, Temple of God, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as Mystical Body; and as individuals, as an individual: the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice, we also have the three parts of the Temple. Outer Court: our body; Holy Place: our spirit; and Most Holy Place: our soul. And the Throne for God to dwell in is our soul; that is the dwelling place of God in Holy Spirit in each one of us as individuals.
And in the Church of Jesus Christ, for God to dwell in the Last Day, that is the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, where God is working, Christ is working in the construction of that Temple, in the first fruits of the Spirit; but when that Most Holy Place is completed with human beings, then that Temple will be dedicated to God, and God will dwell in all His fullness in Holy Spirit.
We have seen the types and figures of the heavenly Temple, which materializes here on Earth in the Church of Jesus Christ; therefore, we have seen the types and figures of the Church of Jesus Christ, we have seen them in the Old Testament in these temples: the one built by Moses and the one built by King Solomon.
And now, each one of you and I too, are part of that spiritual Temple that will be during the Millennial Kingdom, in which Christ will be manifested in all His fullness.
“DEDICATING THE HOUSE OF GOD.”
Notice, in the time of Moses there was a prophet and a high priest there. At the dedication of Solomon’s temple there was a king there: King Solomon; there was also a prophet and the high priest. And in the spiritual Temple of Christ, Christ is the High Priest, Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and Christ is the Prophet of the prophets; and in that Temple, the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus will be there.
So we will have everything that was there, for the dedication of that temple. It was Moses who dedicated the tabernacle back then, a prophet; it was Solomon, a king, who dedicated the temple to God, but the high priest was there too.
And now, for the Last Day, a king and a prophet will be in the House of God, the spiritual Temple of Christ. Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and the High Priest, which has all the ministries; and He will be manifesting the main ministries promised for the Last Day, which are the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus; therefore, the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, it will be dedicated to God when it is completed; the ministries that will have to do for the dedication of that House will be there.
“DEDICATING THE HOUSE OF GOD,” that has been our topic for this occasion.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well. And onward serving Christ all the days of our lives, aware that as individuals we are the House of God, a spiritual Temple; and that we are also members of the spiritual Temple of Christ, we belong to a Mystical Body of believers, called the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the spiritual Temple of Christ.
And now, our desire is to be like Christ, to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior. And that is the glory of God filling our being in all His fullness as a spiritual House, as an individual; and so it is also for the Church of Jesus Christ as a spiritual Temple, as a Mystical Body of believers.
“DEDICATING THE HOUSE OF GOD.”
1 Second Corinthians 6:16
2 Psalm 84:10
3 Psalm 92:12-13