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The Kingdom of God has Kingdom Foundations

These Foundations are Personal Experiences

There are Seven (7) of These Foundations

The Kingdom of God is Built on Solid Foundations

Leo Fenton (November 2018)

If we are going to participate in the Kingdom we must be personally prepared.

Therefore, the Kingdom Foundations must be personally laid in our lives and be experiential.

Only then can we go on from where we are with God.

Hebrews 6:1-3

1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a Foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2 of instruction about baptisms, and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

3 And this we shall do, if God permits.

God can only permit us to go on to full maturity after the Foundations are laid.

First we must have the Foundations in our own lives and then we can help others get the Foundations in their lives.

After a lost person repents of his sins and turns to Jesus Christ in faith and receives the cleansing of the Blood of Christ, we must be able to lead him on to the next foundational experiences. Why?

The Foundations are experiences and not just doctrines to be learned.

This is the meaning of laying the Foundations.

These experiences roughly follow Hebrews 6:1-3.

The pattern of progressive growth into the Kingdom of God can be seen in the Bible in several places!

2 Peter 1:2-11

2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

3 seeing that His Divine Power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true Knowledge of Him Who called us by His Own Glory and excellence.

4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent Promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge;

6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness;

7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten {his} purification from his former sins.

10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

11 for in this way the entrance into the Eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

Whenever these qualities are ours and are increasing, God makes an entrance for us into His Eternal Kingdom.

These growth experiences do not come through the laying on of hands but by the Hand of God working in our life, experientially.

These Foundations are what enable us to progress and to be able to keep the Laws of the Kingdom.

Since the Kingdom is the ultimate goal, God has commissioned us to be able to preach accurately the “Gospel of the Kingdom.”

This is not just a gospel of blessings.

Rather it is the message that Jesus Christ is coming again as the Sovereign King / Priest and the Judge of all mankind, including believers.

This is a real Kingdom, a Government with requirements, that must begin in our life now to prepare us, by growth, for the time that Jesus arrives.

The Kingdom Government and its Laws must BEGIN in our lives by being obeyed.

That means that the Laws of God are known so they can be obeyed by us.

The Kingdom BEGINS in our lives by becoming an active Government over our life!

We learn to “know God” through our knowing and obeying His Laws.

This is not a magical kingdom like Disneyland.

This is a real Kingdom with a real King / Priest.

This is a highly disciplined Kingdom Government where there will be no dishonest gain or crooked politics.

No one of questionable character can participate.

God has exacting requirements for those who participate in the administration of His Eternal Government.

Therefore, a clear vision of God's Eternal Purpose must be ministered so people will press on into the Kingdom of God.

Until the visible church preaches the Kingdom of God from the pulpit, they will remain irrelevant in the Kingdom Government!

Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John;
since then the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached,
and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Before Calvary, the Gospel of the Kingdom was preached and all who could hear were pressing their way into it.

After Calvary the Gospel of the Kingdom was established as the TRUE GOSPEL!

1 Corinthians 2:6-9

6 Yet we do speak Wisdom among those who are mature; a Wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

7 but we speak God's Wisdom in a Mystery, the hidden Wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

8 the Wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory;

9 but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."

Paul calls this ministry planting and watering but he clearly says that it is God Who causes the growth and gives the increase.

Ministry can only lead us to God, after this it is the believer’s own responsibility to maintain a Vine-branch relationship with Jesus Christ.

Ministry cannot provide you with a relationship with God or personal experience and growth.

That is each believer's responsibility.

No pastor can offer us salvation.

He can only lead us to Christ Jesus Who IS our Salvation.

Christ Jesus has more to give us than Salvation.

He has come as our King / Priest and as our Sovereign Judge.

It is Christ Jesus Who has become all the sacrifices in the Old Covenant in order to TAKE AWAY all our sins and then prepare us to fulfill God’s Eternal Purpose!

Whenever a ministry tries to cause the spiritual growth they cease to work with God and begin to work in the place of God. They will surely fail.

Ministries can lay Foundations that lead us to Christ but the believer's experience is with Christ.

Maturity is recognized when God speaks and man does.

Then when man prays, God does!

Maturity is seen when there is a co-operation between God and man to fulfil the Eternal Purpose of God.

Before the world was formed, God set forth His Eternal Purpose.

That was how everything would develop and end up.

A Man would be chosen to be King / Priest and to govern over all the works of God’s Hands.

Now we know that, by Calvary, Jesus Christ would become our Sovereign King and High Priest of that Kingdom.

The Gospel of the Kingdom would relate and explain God’s Eternal Purpose and how we relate ourselves to God and that Purpose.

That Gospel of the Kingdom will relate us to our spiritual growth and maturity in His Government!

One aspect of spiritual growth is the exercising of spiritual authority.

The Kingdom message is NOT man exercising authority over man as we see in the world.

Spiritual authority of the Kingdom is over God's enemies.

All true believers have been given authority over the powers of darkness.

However, new believers, as well as immature old believers, have no real effectiveness against God's enemies.

While all God's children have been given spiritual authority, at the baptism in the Holy Spirit, few are effective in using that authority over the enemies of God. Why?

They leave the Kingdom Government and its Laws out of their experience!

To attain to another measure of spiritual growth means that the Kingdom Laws must become our experience!

This means that we must experientially participate in more of what Jesus Christ has provided for us at Calvary.

Christ Jesus provided, through His sacrifice, everything that we will ever need to complete God’s Eternal Purpose!

I'm not speaking about appropriating the blessings of God, and enjoying God’s provision and benefits!

Our Gospel is focused upon fulfilling the Purpose of God and bringing joy to God's heart.

Some have tried to make the Kingdom, “God’s blessing to us.”

The Kingdom Government will eventually require us to live for Him.

To those who know His Laws, that will require each of us to become Bondservants to God in full consecration to do His Will.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

14 For the Love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;

15 and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him Who died and rose again on their behalf.

Immature believers identify themselves as those who are just living for themselves.

If we just maintain a born again experience, without growing in effectiveness of manifesting God's Kingdom Government upon this earth, we are not living for the Lord.

Too much church activity is not a clear indication of spiritual maturity or effectiveness for the Kingdom.

“Effective work” is when God speaks and man obeys, by doing.

What then is the solution to ineffective activity and more fleshly doing in the church?

People go to seminary to learn how to preach. They learn, not how to teach the Scriptures, but how to preach “messages!”

Pulpit messages “about how to live the Christian Life” do not benefit or mature the church.

Teaching on marriage and witnessing and tithing and fellowship is pointless for maturity.

Laying the seven (7) Foundations, as experiences in the Christian life, causes real Christian maturity!

These seven (7) Foundations are found in the Tabernacle of Moses which was copied by Moses after he was shown the reality of the Tabernacle of God on Mount Sinai.

These seven (7) Foundations follow the Tabernacle of God in its Outer Court experiences!

They are:

(1) The First Veil, repentance from dead works,

(2) Faith toward God in the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on Calvary.

(3) Water baptism into His Death and Burial and the 20 things that happen in proper Baptism.

(4) Then receiving Resurrection Life and being clothed with Christ.

(5) Then receiving the Anointing of the Holy Spirit, not on the flesh but on Christ!

The Holy Spirit will then lead us to the other experiences in the Tabernacle of God.

(6) In receiving the Holy Spirit, He will lead us to the teaching of all the things that Jesus said He would do. He comes to us as Melchizedek, as King & Priest. Not as a servant to serve us. Then

(7) He leads us to a Full Consecration Offering. Here we give “our new inner man” to serve God exclusively by doing His Will.

This is how the Gospel of the Kingdom begins, by these seven (7) experiences in the new believer’s life!

These are the Foundations for the Christian’s Life in the Outer Court of the Tabernacle of God.

Moses’ Tabernacle was set up horizontally but the Tabernacle of God is vertical and shows an increasing of the receiving of His Life.

Mount Zion is the highest top portion and the place of His Throne.

The Second Veil, the Veil of Truth, still separates us from the Holy Place experience.

This Veil was NOT TORN when Jesus was crucified.

Therefore we must each go through that Veil, experientially!

This Veil removes every lie, every crooked thought, every perverse thing that we inherited from first Adam that remains in us.

First Adam died and was buried at proper baptism but the damage he left within us must be removed.

This is taken care of at the Second Veil, by experiencing the Veil of Truth.

The reason the Veil must remove everything human is because the Lampstand is made of Pure Gold.

It is made of the Purity of Christ Jesus which is Gold.

We can’t take our human body in there!

We can only take that portion into the Holy Place that is Christ in us!

Our “maturity” that we experience in the Outer Court preparation is our growing up in all things into Christ!

He teaches us to spiritually appraise all these things.

Since we must grow up into Christ, our message is related to Christ and His Kingdom.

We don’t preach the Kingdom by the spirit of the world but by the Spirit of God.

It is the SECOND VEIL that removes the spirit of the world from us.

Preaching, then, only begins in the Holy Place and in the Lampstand Church, by the Spirit of Christ.

It is the Lampstand Church that is taught by Jesus Christ in the Holy Place.

This we see in Revelation 2 and 3.

He teaches us how to preach Words taught by the SPIRIT and how to grow up and overcome to inherit the Most Holy Place.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised.

15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the Mind of Christ.

Jesus, during His stay on earth, could not preach everything about the Kingdom of God because He preached to the natural man. Why?

He preached to mankind BEFORE the born again experience was given or the Holy Spirit was poured out.

Then He said that the Kingdom of God would be preached in the whole world before the end came.

The Kingdom message begins in the Holy Place Life of the Seven Spirits of God and reflects the doctrines that Paul preached.

Paul’s message could not be preached to natural men because they could not understand it.

Paul’s message was just foolishness to the natural man.

Those who preach the Kingdom Message must have the Mind of Christ and then preach it to those who have received the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, it must be by preparing those Outer Court Christians BEFORE they can hear the Kingdom Message.

It takes some maturity before the people can even hear the spiritual things and understand the spiritual things.

The seven (7) Foundations for the Kingdom must be laid in the believer’s life first!

These seven (7) Foundations must be laid for escaping the natural man so we can hear the Gospel of the Kingdom.

It must be by not living for ourselves but living for Him, that we make the transition to a growing spiritual person.

We must prepare to do His Will by laying down our own ideas, plans, opinions, debates with God!

We must not do things that God never told us to do.

In the Kingdom EVERYONE does the Will of God.

Another identifying mark of maturity is the crucified life.

This is not a matter of one trip to the altar but is the result of proper baptism into His death and burial. This requires a daily dying to our old selves.

Self-serving is the greatest enemy of Christian maturity and causes most of our failures.

Proper Water Baptism deals with the self – flesh - carnal life through death and burial and receiving His Resurrection Life.

This true Baptism experience into His death would include our self-will, self-pleasing, self-confidence, self-centeredness, self-consciousness, self-government, self-importance, self-indulgence, self-interest, selfishness, self-love, self-pity, self-reliance, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, etc.

All these death and burial activities result in a life of:

  • self-discipline,
  • self-control, and
  • self-restraint.

Because there is no self-surrender there is no self-sacrifice.

When there is no self-sacrifice there can be no crucified life.

Therefore the visible church is plagued with both fleshly activity and fleshly inactivity.

Both are ineffective and outside the Kingdom Message and its activity.

The great problem then is getting the visible church to grow so it can function as the Body of Christ in each locality.

Preaching irrelevant “pulpit messages” do not cause the visible church to grow, spiritually.

Laying all the proper Foundations, in each life, is the pre-requisite for experiencing the Christian functioning of the Body of Christ!

The functioning BODY must be from an effective inner life experience of the new inner man.

These seven (7) Foundations must not be laid as "letter" doctrines but as "Life" experiences.

Just because the visible church is informed of the foundational doctrines, does not mean the Foundations are laid.

We may do several studies on repentance and be very clear about what that means but people must still personally repent.

Then many who do repent may still not have the Foundation of repentance from dead works laid in their life.

That is why we see so many dead works being done in fleshly activity.

That is also why we see so much fleshly in-activity.

Trying to get people to join the group, without the initial seven (7) foundational experiences, will be a great disappointment.

Each of the initial Outer Court experiences should produce a birth in us.

In John 3 we see three births.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is (1) born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is (2) born of the water and (3) born of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

These three (3) births can be clearly seen in the Tabernacle of Moses to prepare us for the full experience of the Tabernacle of God:

  • Born again at the altar.
  • Born of the water at the laver.
  • Born of the Spirit at the Anointing.

In that same way there should be a birth take place at the First Veil.

This should be a birth into a life of repentance.

Repentance is not just an initial experience but is an on-going experience as we see in Revelation chapters 2 and 3.

If we have been birthed into a life of repentance, when God puts His Finger on something in our life, that is not pleasing to Him, we can instantly repent.

We can turn and face God and receive the help to put what offends Him out of our life.

We could call this removal a “Kingdom extraction.”

Repentance from dead works is necessary for every believer. Why?

It is DEAD WORKS that prevent us from growing up into the Life of Christ.

Every “work” that is not begun by God is “dead works.” Why?

That is because they have NONE of His Life.

There are so many things in our life that are incompatible with the character and the activity of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Spirit and offend God, and will keep us out of the Eternal Purpose of God.

Each of these things must be rooted out.

In the Kingdom our God:

· speaks,

· impresses or

· convicts,

but we must learn to instantly respond by turning from these things and changing our lifestyle.

No ministry or person can do that for you.

To search for perfection in some other way is ignorance.

Trying to change our clothes rather than our lives, our hearts and our fallen ways, is not the path to maturity.

It is foolish to expect "God to bring you to maturity" if you:

  • are not sensitive to His Voice,
  • do not repent and
  • do not obey.

In this way, each person must take responsibility for his own maturity.

God will do His work but we must co-operate by permitting Him to change us from our low experiences upward to be like Jesus Christ.

Change must come on the inside of man and be reflected outwardly.

Therefore, we cannot separate repentance from obedience.

If repentance was just saying you are sorry, then changing personally would be optional.

Bible repentance means to change experientially.

If we have not been birthed into a life of repentance, the chances are we will not change very much.

Praying for God to lower His Standards for the Kingdom, so it can include us, is an exercise in futility.

If “we change,” experientially, a little each day, we will gradually come up to the Kingdom standards.

Any day without change is a wasted day.

Our fallen ways are not God's Ways.

God is not going to change His Ways or Standards so we must come to His Measure and Standards!

That means we must be the ones to change.

It is one thing to be forgiven of our sins and our defects by God.

It is quite another to be changed, internally, so we don't need to be constantly forgiven.

“Doing the Will of God” does not begin by deciding to which mission field we should go.

“Doing the Will of God” begins by hearing His Voice and changing, experientially, from our wicked ways.

Going to the mission field, in our fallen or our uncorrected state, is not God's Plan.

Man, in his very best effort and human ability, cannot effect a personal change compatible with the Kingdom of God.

Therefore, it must be God, Who is at work in us, by the time we come to the Second Veil, the Veil of Truth, to remove from us every crooked thing.

Then we will be able to do His Will and to live in harmony with His Good Pleasure.

It is this subjective work of God that begins the change from the inside of us so the results are seen on the outside of us.

No man can do that work!

We are required to do a total consecration offering to God and complete the total surrender of ourselves to God, to do His Will.

We do this by making our selves Bondservants of God!

Then obeying His Voice and by receiving His disciplining Hand is requisite for Him to begin an Eternal Work in us.

When we fully surrender to His correcting Hand and His Kingdom Government, He will begin to work, in us.

If we get embarrassed or scandalized by what He exposes in us, then it is requisite that we repent and change our ways and our path!

It is too late, at this point, to call for a second opinion.

Our full surrender, in full consecration, eliminates that possibility.

When we present ourselves as “a consecration offering” to Him, His goal then is to expose whatever is wrong in our life and everything that offends Him.

The picture seen in the Old Testament in the preparation of the priesthood is that we (the sacrifice) get killed first!

That is before He skins us or opens us up for His Light to expose the uncleanness within us.

After the “death and burial” no cry is audible.

This is the blessing of true consecration offering that follows the death and burial that happened in Water Baptism.

Any objection we have to being opened up and exposed is ignored.

It is the Fire of God’s Love that removes that which offends God.

The encouragement is that the “Life of the Spirit” must surely come to us if we do not stumble or faint at the exposure of these things that offend God.

Therefore, each of our real “Consecration Offerings” will be required before we can participate in the next restoration of what the prophets have said.

The Veil of Truth seems to precede the fullness of the next experience of the TENT, the Sanctuary.

This is which, I am guessing, will be “the Pure Gold Lampstand Church.”

This is the place of Ministry of Christ Jesus teaching the Church that He is Building in this new and expanded dimension! He is teaching what it means to “overcome.”

He is teaching what is necessary to advance to the next higher level.

This is seen in Revelation 2 and 3 where Jesus is teaching the Lampstand Church.

We have not seen this teaching happening before, in the visible church!

The Bible says that the Book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ!

We who have experienced, at least a portion of genuine salvation, should be sick of the ministry of the flesh, in the visible church, by this time.

One of the big problems that will face us, in the future, is that, at the present time, we, generally, really don’t know the difference between the ministry of the flesh and the Ministry of the Spirit.

I suspect that when we finally see the genuine “ministry of the Spirit” we will recognize and despise the ministry of the flesh.

Right now we have little to compare the ministry of the flesh with in order to identify it as “flesh.”

There is much of what we now think is the Ministry of the Spirit today that will be exposed for what it really is.

I think that at the present time the “Gifts of the Spirit” are confused as the “Ministry of the Spirit” which comes with Glory.

2 Corinthians 3:7-8

7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

8 how shall the Ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with Glory?

As we witnessed in the past several years, the ministry of the flesh came with glory as it did in the days of Moses.

The sons of Israel could not look at the face of Moses because of the glory.

However the Ministry of the Spirit will come with even more Real Glory.

As we witness regularly, a minister of the flesh can manifest “the Gifts of the Spirit” effectively.

My conclusion then is that the Ministry of the Spirit will harmonize with the Gospel of the Kingdom and the ministry of the Gifts of the Spirit will be manifested in another dimension, other than the earth dimension.

Therefore, laying the seven (7) Foundations for our full Kingdom experience of the Outer Court realm, is essential to the next restoration.

The next restoration should reveal what the “normal Christian Life” really is, as it was designed by God, to function in the Church that He is building.

This is not to imply that some individuals have not experienced the “Ministry of the Spirit” but that the next restoration must include a “corporate body of believers” moving in Kingdom character, attitudes and fruit.

In picture form, this is the fulfillment of the Holy Place Life and Ministry, depicted in the functioning Lampstand Church.

Here Jesus is ministering to a corporate group of grown believers.

This next area of the Tabernacle of God is designed to demonstrate the Ministry of the Seven Spirits of God.”

We have constantly shared that the “next restoration” will be the Holy Place Life and Ministry.

This Ministry will begin in the Outer Court experiences of the Tabernacle of God.

The final preparation of the assembly will be the personal Ministry of the Holy Spirit and the personal Consecration Offering of the saints, followed by being confronted by the Veil of Truth.

This will complete the perfection of the Outer Court dimension of our preparation.

The reason the “Ministry of the Spirit” begins in the Outer Court is that is where the Anointing Oil was first poured on the bonnet, the beard and the garment, down to the hem of the garment.

Then the anointing oil was poured upon the garments of Aaron and his sons, and they were anointed when they were consecrated.

They had to have on all the garments, first, because this anointing consecrated them and their garments

Exodus 29:20-21

20 You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the lobes of his sons' right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar.

21 Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons' garments with him.

This anointing oil was placed upon Aaron, the high priest, and his sons in the Outer Court.

This anointing was to consecrate both the priests and their garments.

This authorized them to eat the ram of consecration in the Outer Court.

Exodus 29:31-33

31 "You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

32 "Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

33 "Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

Then later they were anointed again when they were in the Holy Place with the fragrant oil.

This set them apart from the layman.

Exodus 30:29-33

29 "You shall also consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister as priests to Me.

31 You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.

32 It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people."

My opinion is this: We all received the Outer Court Anointing when we received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.

This Anointing consecrated both US and our garments, which is Christ.

This was the Outer Court consecration.

This Outer Court consecration is NOT the Priesthood Anointing where we can minister to God.

This Holy Place Anointing is what permits us to burn the fragrant incense and eat the Showbread and be taught in the Lampstand Church!

That is the fragrant anointing of the Holy Place.

The Holy Place perfection will be the NEXT RESTORATION, in my opinion!

In Revelation 2 and 3 the Lampstand Church, in the Holy Place, is not yet perfect.

Obviously, these people do not measure up to the Pure Gold standard Church!

Jesus is intent upon their “overcoming at the Lampstand level” to inherit the Most Holy Place.

We don’t see any Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek in Revelation 2 and 3 which is after the Order of Melchizedek.

Maybe we have to overcome, at the Lampstand level, to be prepared to join that Priesthood which is BOTH in the realm of King and Priest.

This Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek requires a certain perfection in order to operate.

Our High Priest has already obtained that Perfection and is our High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek.

My opinion is that “the Body of Our High Priest” is now being formed.

“The Body of Christ” has saints that are visible and the Bible speaks of these people.

They, each one, have received Christ and make up the Body of Christ!

The Body of our Great High Priest is not visible and dwells in the Tent.

The Spirit of Christ is not visible and dwells in the Body of Christ!

The Holy Spirit is not visible in this realm because He is Spirit.

However He dwells in many of us.

These are areas of Christianity that are invisible and must be accepted by faith.

These areas cannot be proved in the Outer Court level of the Tabernacle of God.

If anyone is in the Tent level, in the invisible level, they may be able to see in that level but NOT with these eyes.

Only the new inner man can enter that level of activity that can be seen as visible.

There is NOTHING that can be proved in the natural level, that is of the spiritual dimension, of the Holy Place.

This excites the natural man to try to prove, by phony “spiritual gifts,” by natural activities and things, through some “spiritual like” actions, by hype type ministries!

“Spiritual Gifts” do occur in the natural light of the Outer Court and in that dimension they are visible.

Nevertheless, this is the Outer Court area where the natural man can function (in the natural light) and have a natural hype-type ministry.

In the next restoration, we expect that ONLY the new inner man can be involved in the Tent dimension of the unseen ministry.

This will be of the New Covenant realm of invisible activity.

There is no human or natural degree of “ministry” in the Holy Place of the Tabernacle of God.

In Revelation 2 and 3, only Jesus is teaching and ministering to the Lampstand Church.

Men preaching and teaching is only in the Outer Court realm of the Tabernacle of God.

I am assuming that only men, who are in the Holy Place activity, can be chosen and appointed by Christ Jesus to go out to the Outer Court dimension to prepare and lead the assembly to pass through the Second Veil.

In the New Covenant Church these are the five-fold ministers in Ephesians 4:10-14.

To some saints, it is incredible that after 2,000 years, the visible church is still being prepared in the Outer Court dimension of activity.

The visible church is still operating under the natural light of the Outer Court in the Tabernacle of God.

It is true there are two Anointings, by the Spirit, in the Outer Court, but there is one new Anointing, by the Holy Spirit, the Fragrant Anointing, in the Holy Place, that awaits us.

This is revealed in Exodus 29 and 30 in the Tabernacle of Moses, which is a type of the Tabernacle of God that Moses saw in Heaven when God allowed him to see into that realm at Mount Sinai.

That Tabernacle on earth was a type of the Tabernacle of God that God permitted Moses to see from the top of Mount Sinai!

The Tabernacle of Moses was built to look like the Tabernacle of Gog that he saw in Heaven.

However, the Tabernacle of Moses was built with earth materials.

The Tabernacle of God is not built with earth materials and, therefore, does not pass away when the earth passes away.

The Tabernacle of God is made up of:

  • the New Earth,
  • the New Heaven and
  • the New Jerusalem,

which stands vertical in Heaven.

Each further and higher area of the Tabernacle represents a higher level of His Resurrection Life!

Mount Zion represents the highest level of His Resurrection Life.

The Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek represents the highest level of His Resurrection Life.

This is seen in the King / Priest Resurrection Life of Christ Jesus, Who sits upon His Throne in Heaven which IS upon God’s Throne.

Christ Jesus will rule from Mount Zion, along with 144,000 others, who stand with Him on Zion!

These “others” will be Bondservants!