godrulz said:
I think the Church Age of Grace, the Body of Christ, was the mystery that was hidden and revealed to the NT saints, not just Paul (we differ on the timing...Pentecost vs Paul). The OT had mountain peaks of prophecy (first and second coming of Christ) without seeing the valley of the Church Age when the killing of the King postponed the Kingdom. Just because Paul had truth revealed directly to him does not mean that other leaders were not also understanding that Jew and Gentile were becoming one in Christ after His death, resurrection, and Pentecost. They retained some baggage during the transitional period, but that does not mean there were two NT gospels (circ vs uncirc. based on genetics, not faith).
The "Church" is Zion above, built on the Chief "Foundation Stone" of the New Man, who is Himself the heavenly Mercy Seat of solid gold Moses patterned in the Oracle.
In the sense of the Holy of Holies being called the "Secret", the Oracle, itself, and being itself heavenly Zion's pattern, which Moses copied; which was built "foursquare" below and above,
then the "mystery" of the Holy of Holies is revealed in the "finished Zion" seen by John, as the Bride of Christ coming down from God out of heaven to hover over the regenerated earth, as "Eden", the MOUNT of the LORD, of the regenerated earth, which is when heaven [of this earth's dominion] and earth will be united in "One" as it was created to be, in the beginning, before the fall and separation of the first death
The Son of Man/Son of God is the
Mystery Hidden in God frm the beginning and not
revealed, however,
until His coming in human flesh of the second creation, as the Foundation Stone of Zion above -which is to come to the regenerated earth below, when all things are restored by Him, for the Father's Glory.
The congregation of the LORD is "Israel", and Jacob got the Adoption name as a sign of the Adoption to come, and His Church is His congregation, and His Church is graft into His New Man name, the True Plant of Righteousness, by the second birth offered to Israel first, when He came as the "Acceptable Year of YHWH" with shouts of GRACE! GRACE!, as the Head of the Corner laid in Zion, the Second Man "Temple of YHWH" -not made with hands..
The fact that the Holy of Holies was opened by YHWH from above when the Son of Man hung on the cross, and that He was openly displayed as the True Mercy Seat when the earthquake in heaven and earth shook down the "middle wall of partition" above on the Day He Atoned for all in Adam, and the vale was split, shows that all may now come in through that "Strait Gate" the "bound God", as Psalm 118 teaches, which is the Gate into the Righteous City of God for all men -for the Jew first, and also the Gentiles.
No High Priest who performed the office of Messiah's yearly dress rehearsal for the Final Performance of Acceptablitiy which was to come in the appointed season of YHWH by the New Man, could be adopted into the "Spirit of Adoption" and wear the New Clothes of Israel Flesh body, made "for the Glory"] and enter into the City through the blood of bulls and goats. The High Priest in Israel serving as Messiah =Christ, could only perform a dress rehearsal of the Acceptable Year and could never enter into the city of Zion above because the New Man had not come in flesh to be the "Strait Gate" of entry into the City of God, the True Church =Congregation =Assembly of the Righteous.
The High Priest had to take off his "beautiful garments which were patterns of the New Man's Spirit and Body [representing the Garments for our future wearing], which were made for beauty and for glory, which He wore after He washed and was sanctified, and in which He "came near" the Great Glory in the Holy of Holies.
Because He took the garments off to depart from the presence of the Great Glory's earthly pattern of Zion above, he showed by the removal of them that he was never "perfected" with the eternal Garments of glory and could never enter in by the Strait Gate as a perfected son of God.
We get the garment of Yeshua =Salvation, to wear in the New Birth of Spirit, and by that garment we are seated in the heavenlies with Him, in the
Spirit of Adoption -but we do not yet have the Robe of Priesthood which is the outer Garment made in the image of the body of the Beloved, Only Living Human Being Son of God and we cannot
ascend in body to His Holy Hill, in the Adam nature, and serve as Priests before the Son of Man in His Holy Hill until we don the robes of righteousness for the Glory.
Zion above has a Holy of Holies which no man has yet ascended to but He who came down from heaven.
Yet it has an outer court where the spirits of the just men made perfect are [the born again in Spirit who died since Abel, who formerly waited in Sheol below for the Day of Atonement, which ended the first death of separation forever] , and all go there who are born again to wait for the outer Garments of piesthood, which we all get together, in the first harvest of earth's sons of God, which is at the resurrection/regeneration and or /regeneration at the "Laqach" of the entire Congregation in perfected bodies and then we enter into the Holy of Holies to celebrate our Consecration as priests, there, for seven days.
Leviticus 8 types and patterns the Day we all go in after donning our Garments, complete, and celebrate for a week.
Jesus' Name, alone, is Wonderful! This is His Acceptable Year!, This is the Day of Salvation, when God Shook the middle wall of partition down in heaven and split the vale to the Holy of Holies beneath, to openly set forth the dead body of Jesus Chrsit as the Hidden in God frm the Beginning Mercy Seat, the Salvation of God, which has Appeared in Flesh, for all in Adam
Jesus' body, as the Foundation Stone of the Second Temple's Foundation, was brought forth with shouts of GRACE! GRACE! when He came into this world.
He is our Grace, our Wonderful LORD, and if we are to be a part of His kingdom we must enter in through the "Strait Gate", washing the filth of the Adam which we still have to wear in this life off, by water baptism, leaving those sins and iniquities in the "Deep", where our Scapegoat took them.
The body we wear in our old man, Adam, is dead because of sin, and the body must be baptized in water to 'indentify" with the Scapegoat's carrying off of our sins and iniquities which the Father laid on Him, and Indentify His taking them to the "Deep", where He left them.
God sees you only through Christ when you are born again in His Living Spirit, for God only accepts the Beloved Son, and if you have not been born of His One Living Spirit from above, and have not obeyed Him by being baptized in water, amd you are walking about in your living [dead in spirit] Adam flesh on this earth, then you are wearing the filth of Adam in your flesh, which you have not submitted in obedience to the LORD, in identification with Christ's taking away of your sins to the "Deep".
How can your sins be "remitted" if you are wearing them as filth -not casting them away.
To remit is to cast away.
Our cleansed soul is what is covered by the Blood of atonement, becuse we are adopted into the beloved Son, and are under Him as the True Ark of the Covenant seen in heaven by Moses, but only when we are born of His Spirit.
But if you have not "cast away" the filth of your old man, Adam, by identifying with Christ's "taking them away" to the "Deep" -to Sheol for you- then you are not able to claim Him as your LORD, by His own commandments being "cast off' lawlessly", by you -without His authority from His mouth, to you, by His witnesses who recorded faithfully all His commands for you.
Salvation is a garment given our cleansed souls to wear, called the Spirit of regeneration, Cleansed souls do not try to put on the New Garments without obedience to Jesus our LORD, in washing the filth off, first, of the old man nature which they still have to wear until released from it at death of the body -or at the change; which they can do only by identifying with the "Remitting of our sins in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection in New Life" in the waters of Baptism in His Name.
His "death" was His Blood" shed for us, and we identify with His Blood shed for us by being baptized in water for the "Remission" of our sins which is the casting away of them, in His death and burial, to the Deep.
Why would anyone who claims Jesus Christ is their LORD want to deny His command to be baptized in water "calling" on his name for beautiful 'Salvation Garments'?