Basis for our Studies:
The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.
The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!
Praying through the Sanctuary:
The Psalmist actually tells us that in praying through the Sanctuary, we will come to more intimately know Yahweh.
Psalm 77:11-13 – “I will remember the works of Yahweh: surely I will remember Thy Wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy Work, and talk of Thy Doings. Thy Way, O God, is in the Sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?”
Sanctuary Prayer Ingredient #11: The Most Holy Place and the Ark of the Covenant
The Ark sat in the Most Holy Place, and the high priest went in and ministered before it on the holiest Day of the year… The Day of Atonement… Leviticus 16… The chapter is on the Day of Atonement, but it starts with the deaths of Nadab and Abihu. There is clear danger in presumptuously entering Yahweh’s Presence… We are to come, but to do so without a righteous rendering of the death we (as sinners) deserve… Presumption is the opposite of Faith (Faith comes by hearing the Word of Yahweh)… Presumption is just doing it however I feel or please… Faith is entering Yahweh’s Presence based upon His Word and Instruction.
Inside the Holy of Holies sits the Ark, the Covenant, the cherubim, the Glory. Over the Ark is the Mercy Seat.
People hear “mercy seat” and imagine something soft and sentimental… no…
The Mercy Seat sits above the Law of Yahweh… Above the Testimony… the Covenant.
In the Ark of the Covenant, Mercy Seat, blood is placed on the Day of Atonement – the picture is clear here… Mercy doesn’t ignore Justice. Both meet in this Place.
Mercy is not found by eliminating Testimony (the Commandments are called the Testimony)… In a trial (Yahweh’s Throne is the Place of Judgment), the Testimony must be heard… The Covenant still exists, the Testimony still exists – in fact it is the foundation of the Throne – the center of the Seat. The Commandments (of which the Statutes are the fine print) are the center of the Throne of Yahweh.
o The high priest would be fully cleansed of his sins prior to – in
preparation for – entering the Most Holy Place… The awe, reverence and godly
fear was a big part of entering this Space… fear is the beginning of
wisdom… So the approach before His
Throne is with fear, with Blood, and with incense clouding the Mercy Seat “so
that he does not die” (Leviticus 16:13).
o Hebrews 12:28-29 “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear: For our God is
a consuming Fire.”
o Jeremiah 10:6-7 “Forasmuch
as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy
name is great in might. Who would not
fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among
all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is
none like unto thee.”
8 times, specifically in reference to
building Solomon’s Temple, the Most Holy Place is called the “Oracle” in the
Bible.
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1 Kings 6:19 And the oracle H1687 he
prepared H3559 in the house H8432 H1004 within,H4480 H6441 to set H5414 there H8033
(H853) the Ark H727 of the Covenant H1285 of Yahweh.H3068
o “oracle” in 1 Kings 6:19, is translated from the Hebrew word Debir
(H1687), which is from the root dabar (H1696)… Dabar is one of the richest words in the
Hebrew Bible…
§ Dabar can mean word, matter, thing, or
event, while the related verb means to speak… When Yahweh speaks, His Words
create, He commands, He reveals, He Judges, and He establishes Covenant…
o This debir concept is visually, symbolically portrayed in the Most Holy
Place – the Oracle Room – Resting within the Debir was the Ark of the
Covenant… Inside the Ark were the stone
Tablets of the Covenant… In English we
call them the “Ten Commandments”, but in Hebrew they are called Aseret, ha
Devarim, which means, literally, “the Ten Words”.
o This pattern extends beyond the Temple. Moses first encountered God in the מִדְבָּר (Midbar)—the wilderness. In Jewish tradition, the Midbar is understood as "the place of speaking": the place where God spoke to Moses, revealed His covenant at Sinai, and instructed Israel to build the Tabernacle so that He might dwell among His people. The pattern continued after the Tabernacle was completed. Numbers 7:89 records that when Moses entered the Tabernacle, he heard the Voice of God speaking to him from above the Mercy seat, between the cherubim, over the Ark of the Covenant.
The God who spoke in
the Midbar now spoke from above the Ark containing the Ten Words, providing a
striking biblical backdrop to the Temple's Debir...the place the King James
Version repeatedly calls the "oracle."
o Taken together, these Hebrew threads point toward a remarkable pattern. The Holy of Holies was unquestionably the holiest place in Israel's sanctuary. Yet throughout the Temple construction narrative, the Hebrew repeatedly calls it the Debir.
The King James translators rendered that word as "oracle." Within it rested the Ark containing the Ten Words of God's covenant. Read together, these Hebrew threads suggest that the emphasis is not on holiness alone. The Debir emerges as the place where God speaks...where His covenant is revealed, His word is given, and His voice goes forth to His covenant people.
Within the Ark of the Covenant we find the Ten Commandments (which embodies the entire Torah), we find Aaron’s Rod that Budded, and the pot of manna that never rotted
o Ten Commandments –
o Demonstrate, portray the Character of Yahweh, the Foundation of His
Government, and the Rules of the Kingdom…
It is the righteous Standard by which Judgment is rendered
o It is and defines Truth
§ Psalm 89:14-15 – “Justice and Judgment are
the habitation of Thy Throne: Mercy and Truth shall go before Thy Face. Blessed is the people that know the
joyful sound: they shall walk, O Yahweh, in the light of Thy Countenance.”
o Aaron’s Rod – (Numbers 16-17)
o When the tribal leaders challenge Aaron’s role as high priest, the
twelve tribal leaders place their staffs before Yahweh… Aaron’s buds, blossoms and produces almonds…
this connects it with the menorah and the Tree of Life…
o Dead wood is made alive, foreshadowing Yahshua’s Resurrection – and the
fact that we may be made from dead to alive in Yah. Yahweh bringing Life out of
Death.
o Authority is from Yahweh, not from human ambition.
o The Golden Pot of Manna – Christ, the Bread of Life –
o “I Am the Bread of Life”
o The Manna in the Ark was hidden from view, yet it physically
represented the Calling and Promise of Revelation 2:17. It calls each believer
into full holiness, in Yahweh, through Yahshua, to be an overcomer…
§ Revelation 2:17 – “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
Putting it all
Together in Prayer (Example):
Step
1: Approach the Sanctuary
“Dear Heavenly Father, Today, I praise Your holy Name that You have called
me to be among Abraham’s Seed, which is Israel. Having been baptized, and
having put on Christ, I renew that Calling and claim upon my life today. I
choose to be among Abraham’s Seed, and an heir according to Your Promise…
Today, I thank You that I can make this choice, and I choose to be a full
partaker of the Covenant made with Abraham and his Seed…”
Step
2: Enter the Door
“I praise You, Yahweh, for providing the Door
to Life – Yahshua. I choose to enter into Your Life today, through Messiah. I
acknowledge that You are Calling me to serve You as a priest and king. I humbly
accept Your Calling into Your Service. I recognize that I cannot hold onto the
world and enter Your narrow Way. The Door to Life involves leaving the flesh
and its lusts behind. Today, I choose You. I want You more. And I leave behind
the world and choose Your Kingdom.”
Steps
3 and 4: Come inside the Walls of His Righteousness & Receive His Pure Word
(Columns)
“I praise You, Yahweh, for Your Torah and I
choose today to fully walk in obedience to You. I reject the old brackish
waters of the world, and seek the clean water of Your Kingdom and Word. I claim
Your Redemption and trust in Your Strength to provide it. Help me to live this
choice in full Shema, today.”
Step
5: Receive Justification in the Courtyard and Die with Him for this Day (the
Altar of Burnt Sacrifice)
“Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to help me,
today, to view sin in light of the Cross. Deliver me from my appetite for sin.
Help me to see it by what it cost You to free me from it. I honor You, Yahshua,
as the Worthy Lamb that was slain. And I claim Your precious Blood in cleansing
for my sin (confess and repent for your known sins specifically). (Also name
your areas of wounding and suffering, and claim His healing over you). I choose
today to die to my old man of sin – sins of my past – and all in me that is not
according to Your Will. Please help me to have as much attraction to my old
sins as a dead man.”
Step
6: Enter the Bridal Chamber – the Holy Place – and Abide there within its
Golden Walls
“Today, Heavenly Father, I choose to enter the
Bridal Chamber relationship with Yahshua, with all that this means and implies.
I choose today to be Ta’am (joined) with Messiah. May I disappear, being so
completely joined with Him. I ask Your Strength and Your Name (as a mighty
Tower) so that I would be completely resistant to sin and a fit dwelling Place
for Your Spirit. I invite You into my Soul Temple today. I wish to emulate and
reflect Your lovely Character. And I seek to align my life with Your lovely
Torah, recognizing that it is the Wall of Protection, the Ketubah of the Bridal
Chamber and the Way of Life.”
Step
7: Partake of the Bread of Presence
“I seek today to be restored to the Eden
Relationship with You. In so doing, I ask to enter Your Presence and to enjoy
Fellowship at Your Table. I claim Your Promises that, as the Seed of Abraham, I
may partake with You today. Please bless me and feed my soul with the heritage
of Jacob, as I eat from the Bread of Your Presence, in Your Word just now. (At
this stage, open the Bible and do your “eating from the Word”…) (Add in
whatever you found in the Word to your prayer and turn it into a prayer
response to your Scripture reading for that day)… Father, I praise You that You
have called me to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Help me to live in this
Calling today.”
Step
8: Refresh the Incense – Intercession and Worship
“Heavenly Father, I pray with the Psalmist
that You would let my prayer be counted as incense before You just now (Psalm
141:2). I seek the Breath of Heaven. Oh, please quicken and enliven me with
Your Spirit. Breathe upon me and grant that the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart would be acceptable in Your Sight (Psalm 19:14). I pray
that this sweet incense of my Spirit-empowered prayers will continue to ascend
before You throughout this day and that I will abide always in Your Presence.
As I bring the incense of this prayer before
You, I begin with Onycha in offering the sacrifice of my praise to You for Your
lovely Character and Goodness. (Praise Yahweh in specific ways… One way is to praise Him for His many Names,
all of which reveal various aspects of His Character… the Almighty, Yahovah
Yireh, Yahweh, the Great I AM, Alpha and Omega, etc…) I praise You for the
Provision of Yahshua, Who truly is the Rose of Sharon (praise Yahweh for
Salvation in Yahshua, etc)…
I offer before You the Stacte. In this, I
accept Your Calling today to be a part of the Elijah Team. Please help me to
live in Your Torah, and to help restore Your Truth and Law in the hearts and
minds of those with whom I come into contact today.
I bring the Galbanum asking for “antiseptic”
cleansing from sin for (name the people you are praying for and list the
matters and sins. Claim Yahshua’s Blood over them in these areas and come
against the strongholds of the enemy in their lives, beseeching Yahweh to now
have the legal right to smash the blinders on their eyes and reveal His Truth,
doing all that Heaven can do to bring them to repentance. (Intercede for each
person on your prayer list in this portion of the prayer).
Finally, I offer the frankincense as a gift to
You. Grant me pure faith and create in me a clean heart (Psalm 51:10). Empower
me, by Your indwelling Grace, to present my body as a living sacrifice that is
holy and acceptable unto You (Romans 12:1). I choose to serve You this day. Not
my will, but Thine be done in my life.
Step
9: Praying for the Menorah Blessing – the Tree of Life
“Your beautiful Menorah is filled with Light,
representing Your Truth from Your Word. It also represents the Tree of Life. I
am grateful to You that You have made the Way for me to be restored to Eden
again, and to have access to the Tree of Life. This is a Gift beyond compare. I
ask to live out the lesson and Message of the Menorah with You today. Please
help me to abide in You, as the Branches of the Menorah abide in the Vine.
Infuse and fill me with the Oil of Your Spirit. And shine out from me with the
Light of Your Truth. May Your Word and Truth enlighten me. And deliver me from
all darkness. Let me not stray from You so that my sanctuary would become a
dark abomination, desolate of Your Light and Presence. Today, I choose You and
the Way of Life. I recognize that Life is only found in Truth – Your Light.
Help me to walk in the Light You have already given. Help me to seek more and
more of Your Light. And help me today to keep my Lamp trimmed and burning,
refreshing the Light in the morning and in the evening, never letting the Light
of Your Truth go out from my Life. Shine
out from me, I pray. Please use me like a city set on a hill that cannot be
hid. May I draw others to the Light of Your Truth, as I walk in it myself, by
Your Grace.
Step
10: Praying for the Most Holy Place – the Oracle – and Approaching the Throne
of Grace
“In the merits and Blood of Yahshua, I accept
Your invitation to come most closely into Your Presence. I humbly kneel before
You in adoration and worship, before Whom the holy angels veil their faces.
With all my soul, and only in the imputed righteousness of Yahshua, I join my
voice with the angels in worship of You, for You are holy, holy, holy! Humbly
also, I ask You to write Your beautiful Torah upon the tablets of my heart.
Transcribe Your lovely Character upon me. For I choose to submit to Your
“writing” process.
Quicken me with Your Life-giving Spirit and
may my life bud and produce Fruit until Life, a Aaron’s rod. Help me to be an
overcomer today, eating of Your hidden manna and living fully as a citizen of
Your Kingdom.
And now, Father, recognizing that the Room of
Your Throne is also the Room of the Oracle, in submission I ask You, I invite
You, as Samuel did long ago, please speak, Yah, for Thy servant heareth. I wait
upon You. Is there anything You wish to communicate to me. I seek to Hear You
(at this point in the prayer, wait quietly. He may choose to speak through His
Word, impressing you to open Your Bible to a certain passage… He may choose to speak to Your mind with
thoughts or impressions… Let Him speak to you)…
(conclude your prayer through the Sanctuary
with praise and worship. And rise from your prayer time to act upon anything
the Father has revealed from His Word and Will during Your prayer time).
Video Links
· The Tabernacle and What it Reveals to Us - (5 minute video by Chosen People Ministries)
The Tabernacle of Moses Structure - 3D Animation - (6 minute and 51 second video by Messages of Christ)
Ron Wyatt Discoveries - (2 hours 29 minute video by Truth is Christ)
Revealing God's Treasures: the Ark of the Covenant - (51 minute video by Ark Discovery.com)