Response to “Israel and the Church”

A Response to:

Israel and the Church: the Differences

(Zola Levitt Ministry)

Original (black and red print) by Thomas S. McCall, Th.D.;

Response (in blue type) by James Wilson

Dr. Thomas McCall, the Senior Theologian of our ministry, has written many articles for the Levitt Letter. He holds a Th.M. in Old Testament studies and a Th.D. in Semitic languages and Old Testament. He has served as Zola’s co-author, mentor, pastor, and friend for nearly 30 years.

Introduction

One of the great theological battlegrounds of orthodox Christianity throughout the centuries has been the nature and character of the Church, especially in relation to its biblical predecessor, Israel. The two major views are that:

1. The Church is a continuation of Israel

2. The Church is completely different from Israel

3. The Minority View, which I (James) hold, is that the Church’s core is and always was Israel.

First View: The Church is Israel

The predominant view has been that the Church is the “new” Israel, a continuation of the concept of Israel which began in the Old Testament. In this view, the Church is the refinement and higher development of the concept of Israel. All of the promises made to Israel in the Scriptures find their fulfillment in the Church. Thus, the prophecies relating to the blessing and restoration of Israel to the Promised Land are “spiritualized” into promises of blessing to the Church. The prophecies of condemnation and judgment, though, are retained literally by the Jewish nation of Israel.

This view is sometimes called Replacement Theology, because the Church is seen to replace Israel in God’s economy. One of the problems with the view, among others, is the continuing existence of the Jewish people, especially with regard to the revival of the new modern state of Israel. If Israel has been condemned to extinction, and there is no divinely ordained future for the Jewish nation, how does one account for the supernatural survival of the Jewish people since the establishment of the Church, for almost 2,000 years against all odds? Furthermore, how does one account for Israel’s resurgence among the family of nations as an independent nation, victorious in several wars and flourishing economically?

Second View: Israel and the Church are Different

The other view, we believe, is clearly taught in the New Testament, but it has been suppressed throughout most of Church history. This view is that the Church is completely different and distinct from Israel, and the two should not be confused. In fact, the (NT) Church is an entirely new creation that came into being on the Day of Pentecost after Christ’s resurrection from the dead, and will continue until it is taken to Heaven at the Rapture return of the Lord (Eph. 1:9-11). None of the curses or blessings pronounced upon Israel refer directly to the Church. The Church enters into the Abrahamic and New Covenants, for instance, only by divine application, not by original interpretation (Matt 26:28).

This view has several major errors. First, the Church can never be extracted from Israel; Acts points this out:

Acts 7:38 This is he who was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the lively oracles to give unto us.

The very core of the Church is Israel; remove that core, and there is no Church.

The Church never came into being at Pentecost; nothing came into being at Pentecost. That event was an example of a future event: a minature of it, as the text itself explains with reference to the prophet Joel.

The Rapture isn’t of ‘the Church,’ and no text states that it is. The Rapture will take all Saints living at that time. The very core of the Church will continue.

No part of the Church enters into the Abrahamic and New Covenants by any divine application; that is spiritualization, and it is Replacement Theology. The Covenants are literal, and directed toward those as the Scriptures describe.

This leaves all the covenants, promises, and warnings to Israel intact. Israel, the natural Jewish nation, is still Israel. To be sure, Israel has been side-lined during these past 1,900 years of the Diaspora. The Church has taken center stage in the Lord’s affairs as the Gospel has spread throughout the world. Nevertheless, God has carefully preserved the Jewish people, even in unbelief, through every kind of distress and persecution. Some- times, the professing Church itself (I speak to our shame) has been a cause of these persecutions to the Jews.

Israel has never been side-lined. ‘The Church’ that has taken center stage has been nearly all made of unbelievers, and has no part in the permanent plan of God, while the Biblical Church, with Israel at its core, and all who truly are born of God are added to this group—not as a replacement for Israel, but as participants in the congregation (church) of Saints. Israel remains distinct, and must necessarily always remain distinct as the Covenant itself declares: Israel is an ‘Am Segulah,’ a segregated people. Even Daniel’s prophecy keeps Israel distinct:

Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

There are three entities: the people, the saints, and the most High. The people speaks of Israel; the Saints refer to all Saints, and especially non-Jewish Saints in this text, and the most High’s identity is obvious.

The group that has taken center stage for the past 1900 years of the Diaspora is described in a parable of a grain of mustard seed that grows into a tree—a monstrosity in which the birds (demons) can make their nests in its branches. That tree will be demolished.

What has been spread throughout the world isn’t the Gospel—that is, isn’t the Biblical Gospel; it is American Pagan Christianity in which sin is acceptable and the mere acknowledgement of faith, or doing particular denominational actions, brings one into the supposed Body of Christ.

The ‘professing Church’ consists of non-Saints who think they are Saints.

Not only has God preserved the Jewish nation, but He has also kept His promise to save a remnant of Israel in every generation. The remnant of (true) Israel in this age are the Jewish believers in Christ who have joined the Gentile believers, and form the Church, the Body of Christ (Rom. 11:5). In this respect, then, a part of Israel (the believing remnant) intersects with the Church during the Church Age. But this does not make Israel the Church, or vice versa.

It is a thoroughly Replacement Theological concept to state that “The remnant of (true) Israel in this age are the Jewish believers in Christ who have joined the Gentile believers, and form the Church, the Body of Christ.” If the writer had known proper theology, he might have stated something more like this: “The remnant of (true) Israel in this age are the Jewish Believers in Messiah who have been permanently joined to all Believers by the New Birth, and are a permanent part of the Church, the Body of Christ, whose very center is Israel (including Israel not in faith).”

There is no such thing as ‘the Church Age.’ It is the Age of the Gentiles in which pagan Gentiles have predominance over Jerusalem; this contrasts to the Day of Yehovah when Yehovah will permanently take Jerusalem to Himself.

In the future, both God’s warnings and promises to Israel will come to pass. After the Lord is finished with the Church Age, and has taken the Church to Heaven in the Rapture (1 Thess. 4:16-18), God will restore Israel to center stage on the world’s divine theater. First comes the devastating “Time of Jacob’s Trouble” (Jer. 30:7) also known as the Great Tribulation. This is a dreadful period of seven years, which begins relatively lightly during the first half, but intensifies into full focus during the latter half. During this time the world is judged for rejecting Christ, but, more specifically, Israel is judged, purged and prepared through the fiery trials of the Great Tribulation for the Second Coming of the Messiah. This is the bad news.

God never takes the Church to Heaven in the Rapture. He takes the Saints. The Church still remains, since all the plans of God have everything to do with the Church (with Israel at its core).

The concept that the Tribulation “begins relatively lightly during the first half, but intensifies into full focus during the latter half” is based on a reading error. It begins terribly heavy on Israel, and then it gets even heavier on the races trying to destroy Israel and be rid of Yehovah and His Messiah. When Yehovah begins the Tribulation, He will terribly slaughter among the Israelis.

The world is never judged “for rejecting Christ.” The world is judged for its attempts against Israel, Yehovah and His Messiah. Some of the greatest heroes and heroines of that time won’t even know who Yehovah and His Messiah are.

The good news is that, when Christ does return to the earth at the end of the Tribulation, Israel will be ready, willing, and eager to receive Him, and proclaim, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Matt. 23:39). As the stumbling of Israel brought blessing to the world at Christ’s First Coming, the reception of Israel to Christ at His Second Advent will be like “life from the dead” (Rom. 11:15). The remnant of Israel which survives the Tribulation (some one-third of the Jewish people who enter the Tribulation), will be saved, and the Lord will establish His kingdom on the same earth and the same capital city, Jerusalem, that rejected Him centuries before. Israel will be the head of the nations, and no longer the tail, and all nations will send representatives to Jerusalem to honor and worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Isa. 2:2-3; Micah 4:1). The Church will return with Christ, and will rule with Him for a thousand years (Rev. 20:1-5). He Himself told His disciples that they would rule over the 12 tribes of Israel in the restoration (Matt. 19:28). Thus, Israel has not been forgotten in God’s plan. While the Jewish nation still has a dark period facing it, there is a glorious finale to Israel’s long history.

The Professor McCall has events in the wrong order. He has Christ returning, and then Israel proclaiming, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Matt. 23:39). What will occur will be the opposite (as the text itself declares). Yeshua will not even be seen until the inhabitants of Jerusalem will say, “Blessed is He Who comes with the Name Yehovah!”

His proportions are also incorrect. Far fewer than 1/3 of Israel will survive the Tribulation.

The Church won’t return with Christ; Saints will come with Him, and the Church will continue on Earth. There is no concept of The Church off planet Earth. There never has been. There are members of the Church, but the Church itself is always a congregation on Earth.

He stated, “all nations will send representatives to Jerusalem to honor and worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” He didn’t mention the Zechariah 14:16 text that describes this in detail, including their mandatory participation in Succot (‘Tabernacles,’ ‘Booths’).

The Saints (not the Church) will rule with Messiah for a thousand years.

How Did the Church Decide the Demise of Israel?

The New Testament Church was very much involved with the vicissitudes (changes) of Israel. Jesus is an Israeli, as were all the apostles, and the concerns of Israel, spiritually and politically, were very much a part of their lives. The greatest struggles the early Church had were over the relationship between Israel and the Church, law and grace, and the fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ (Galatians). Many of the Jewish believers were not comfortable with the Gentile believers at first; and as time went on and Gentiles began to predominate numerically, the attitudes were reversed. Galatians shows how the Jewish party tried to impose the Mosaic Law on Gentile Christians, and Romans shows how the Gentile party began to “boast against the branches” (Rom. 11:18), resenting the place of Israel in history and theology.

Professor McCall stated, “The greatest struggles the early Church had were over the relationship between Israel and the Church, law and grace, and the fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ (Galatians).” This is totally false. I will word it correctly: “The greatest struggles the early pagans who thought they were the true Church had were over the relationship between Israel and the Church, law and grace, and the fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ (Galatians). Even Peter was confused on this point for a while, but was soon corrected.”

He continued, “Many of the Jewish believers were not comfortable with the Gentile believers at first.” This was due to their being unclean, and to their not submitting to becoming physically clean as if they were becoming part of the People of Israel. They knew very well that a person could be a non-Jewish Saint, but they didn’t know how to deal with these folks because of the current teachings on becoming unclean by contact with the races.

Professor McCall wrote, “As time went on and Gentiles began to predominate numerically, the attitudes were reversed.” He was right: as Gentiles (not Saints) began to predominate; they claimed faith, but were not in faith.

Professor McCall incorrectly used the phrase, “Gentile Christians.” There is no such thing in the Bible. Once a person who used to be a Gentile is born of God, that person is a son or daughter of Avraham by faith—not an Israeli, but a son or daughter of Avraham. Now, should the person also join to Israel, the person then becomes an Israeli, but that is totally not necessary for the person to become a son or daughter of Avraham.

That Gentile party of which the professor spoke who “began to ‘boast against the branches’ (Rom. 11:18), resenting the place of Israel in history and theology, never consisted of folks who were born of God.

It took some time, perhaps a couple of centuries, but eventually the vast Gentile majority in the Church began to view Israel as a vestigial organ that had outlived its usefulness. In fact, the predominant Christian view was that the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD signaled the official and divinely-ordained end of the Jewish nation, never more to be re-instituted as a national entity. The fact that Jerusalem lay in ruins and the Jewish people were scattered over the world was seen as conclusive evidence that God was forever finished with national Israel. If there were any purpose for the existence of the Jewish people, it was to remind the world of the severe judgment of God upon a disobedient people.

The professor wrote of “the predominant Christian view” in this paragraph. Why didn’t he realize that this was the predominant anti-Semitic view of the uncircumcised?

If this harsh view of Israel were true, though, what of the promises of God to Israel in the Old Testament? For those who claimed to believe in the entire Bible as the Word of God, this was a great problem. How could a faithful God not keep His promises to His ancient people? To deal with this took extraordinary theological dexterity and alchemy. The theologians had to propose that Israel in the Scriptures did not really mean Israel, especially when it came to the promises of eternal blessing. Instead, Israel meant something else, something that came to be known in the New Testament as the Church. The Church became the new Israel, and through this remarkable transformation, wherever blessing is promised to Israel in the Old Testament, it was interpreted to mean the Church. This is Replacement Theology, in which the Church has become Israel.

The professor is right; only, he doesn’t know that he, himself, clings to Replacement Theology. This is a great problem at the present time. Many who have a real and determined interest in the Bible and in the God of the Bible, and who feel themselves thoroughly grounded in Truth and in Faith, having everlasting Salvation, hold to Replacement Theology, and therefore are in unbelief. The reason for this is because they fail to take the Scriptures literally, as does this professor. Not taking it literally is direct unbelief.

Replacement Theology was already around before the end of the First Century, but did not become the official position of professing Christian leadership until Augustine popularized the concept, primarily in THE CITY OF GOD, in the latter part of the Fourth Century. Augustine actually states that he was previously a Chiliast, meaning that he was a believer in the thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth after His return. This is the same as our current description of Premillennialism. However, he had come to the conclusion that this view was “carnal,” and had adopted the view that the reign of Christ would be something more “spiritual,” and would actually occur during the Church Age. Such a view necessitated the extinction of Israel, and the cancellation of all promises God made to the Jewish nation. These promises of blessing would now be fulfilled within the framework of the Church.

I agree with the professor in this paragraph; Augustine was a non-spiritual swine.

This view, which had been latent in Christendom, now flourished throughout the Byzantine world. From this point on, the theological legs were cut out from under Israel, and the predominant Christian theology was that there was no future for Israel. Replacement Theology has been the rule that has survived the Middle Ages, the Crusades and the Reformation in Church History. Only during the last Century or so has the Premillennial concept of the future of Israel come to the forefront in evangelical Christianity. Even so, it is a minority view.

The professor is incorrect in his assessment: “Only during the last Century or so has the Premillennial concept of the future of Israel come to the forefront in evangelical Christianity.” He is apparently unaware of groups, like the Puritans, who were confused about these things, but who didn’t dismiss the restoration of Israel and the reign of Messiah on Earth.

Does Israel’s Future Demean the Church’s Glory?

Some suggest that if Israel has not ceased to exist in its covenant relationship to God, and if Israel still has a future in the divine plan, this somehow diminishes the position of the Church. Is such a concern valid? It is almost as though the Church has been jealous of Israel, and afraid that if it recognized Israel’s future promises, it would somehow demean Christ and the Church. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Jealousy over Israel is the norm.

It is when the Church recognizes Israel that the true distinctiveness and glory of the Body of Christ becomes evident. This called-out body, composed of believing Jews and Gentiles during the Church Age, is the highest entity the Lord has created, superior to the universe, all the Angels, the nations, and Israel. Our Head, our Husband, our Friend is the Son of God Himself. We shall reign with Him when He rules the earth, and our 12 Founding Apostles will rule over the 12 tribes of Israel. The Angels themselves will study us forever as the greatest exhibit of God’s grace, and we will actually judge the Angels. This is our destiny, and this writer, for one, would not trade his position in the Body of Christ with any creature in the universe! Why, then, be disturbed over what God has promised the Jewish people? Why be jealous over the future destiny of Israel? How short sighted of us! Indeed, the Church’s finest and most distinctive hour will be when Israel is restored nationally and spiritually to the Lord at the Second Coming of Christ. We will return from Heaven with Him as His glorious Bride to rule Israel and the world. What more could we ask?

I thoroughly disagree with the statement, “This called-out body, composed of believing Jews and Gentiles during the Church Age, is the highest entity the Lord has created, superior to the universe, all the Angels, the nations, and Israel.” That is about as blatantly Replacement Theologically oriented a statement as one can make.

The professor then delves deeper into Replacement Theology: “Our Head, our Husband, our Friend is the Son of God Himself.” Jerusalem is the Bride and wife of the Lamb, as Revelation 21:9 and following show:

Revelation 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues. And he talked with me, saying, “Come hither! I will shew thee the Bride, the Lamb’s wife!” 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain! And he shewed me that great city: the holy Jerusalem, descending out of the heavens from God, 11 having the glory of God!

The professor then continues, “Indeed, the Church’s finest and most distinctive hour will be when Israel is restored nationally and spiritually to the Lord at the Second Coming of Christ.” Israel will be restored nationally and spiritually, and physically, before this Coming of Christ! That is a prerequisite to His coming!

Professor McCall then exclaims, “We will return from Heaven with Him as His glorious Bride to rule Israel and the world. What more could we ask?” I will tell you what more you could ask: You could ask this professor to believe the Bible, and not theological replacement. So, the Bride will rule Israel? Fat chance, unless Yehovah is a liar.

So, if we are not to suffer from spiritual myopia, we must recognize what the Lord is doing with Israel, not shrinking from it as though our own interests will be overshadowed. Rather, we rejoice in these developments, with full assurance that our own redemption draws ever closer.

October 21, 2011July 5, 2017

Exodus 26: Abode, Curtains, Loops and Cuttings QA

The Abode, Curtains, Loops and Cuttings

With Questions and Proposed Answers

Background and printed text: Exodus 26

Exodus 26:1 And thou shalt make the Abode ten curtains: twisted byssus and blue and purple and earthworm crimson. Thou shalt make them Crooveem, work of a thinker. ²Length of the one curtain is eight and twenty via a forearm. And breadth is four via a forearm. The one curtain is one measure to all the curtains. ³Five of the curtains shall be friends, a woman unto her sister. And five curtains are friends, a woman unto her sister.

⁴And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the lip of the one curtain from the edge via a friend [female]. And established, thou shalt make via the lip of the edgemost curtain, via the second friendship. ⁵Thou shalt make fifty loops via the one curtain, and thou shalt make fifty loops via an edge of the curtain that is via friendship of the second. The loops are receiving, a woman unto her sister.

⁶And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold. And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the curtains, a woman unto her sister, via clasps. And the Abode will be one!

⁷And thou shalt make curtains of goats to the Tent upon the Abode. Thou shalt make them eleven curtains. ⁸The length of the one curtain is 30 via a forearm, and the breadth is 4 via a forearm. The one curtain is one measure to eleven curtains. ⁹And thou shalt ‘friendship’ five of the curtains alone and six of the curtains alone. And thou shalt double the sixth curtain unto the circumcision, the faces of the Tent.

¹⁰And thou shalt make fifty loops upon the lip of the one edgemost curtain via ‘friendshipping’ and fifty loops upon the lip of the second ‘friendshipping’ curtain. ¹¹And thou shalt make fifty clasps of copper. And thou shalt bring the clasps via loops. And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the Tent. And he shall be one!

¹²And the spread/diffusion of the excess is via the curtain(s) of the Tent. Thou shalt spread/diffuse half of the excess curtain upon my After of the Abode. ¹³And the forearm from this and the forearm from this is via the excess, via the length of the curtain. The Tent will be spread/diffused upon sides of the Abode from this and from this to blanket-cover him!

¹⁴And thou shalt make a blanket-covering to the Tent: skins of red rams and a blanket-covering of skins of takhashes from above.

¹⁵And thou shalt make the cuttings to the Abode trees of standing acacia. ¹⁶Ten forearms is the length of the cutting and a forearm and a half of the forearm is the breadth of the one cutting. ¹⁷Two hands are to the one cutting; they [the hands] are connecting, a woman unto her sister. Established, thou shalt make to all cuttings of the Abode. ¹⁸And thou shalt make the cuttings to the Abode twenty, a cutting to an extremity southward, rightward.

¹⁹And thou shalt make forty lords of silver under twenty: the cutting, two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands and two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands. ²⁰And twenty cutting(s) are to the north extremity to the second piece of the Abode. ²¹And forty are their lords of silver. Two lords are under the one cutting and two lords are under the one cutting. ²²And thou shalt make six cuttings to the sides of the Abode seaward. ²³And thou shalt make two cuttings to the cut-outs of the Abode via the two sides. ²⁴And they shall be their twin from below. And they shall be unified perfect-[ones] by his head unto the one sunk-impression. He will be established to two of them! They shall be to two of the cut-outs! ²⁵And eight cuttings shall be. And their lords are silver. Sixteen are lords; two lords are under the one cutting and two lords are under the one cutting.

²⁶And thou shalt make their bar trees of acacia. Five are to cuttings of one piece of the Abode, ²⁷and five are their bar to cuttings of the second piece of the Abode. And five are their bar to cuttings of a piece of the Abode to two sides seaward. ²⁸And the middle bar in the midst of the cuttings is fleeing from the edge unto the edge. ²⁹And thou shalt observe the cuttings: gold. And thou shalt make their sunk-impressions gold: houses to their bar. And thou shalt observe their bar: gold!

³⁰And thou shalt make-stand the Abode according-to his justice that thou wast shown in the mountain!

³¹And thou shalt make a Divider of blue and purple and earthworm crimson and twisted byssus, a making of thought. He shall make her—crooveem! ³²And thou shalt give her upon four pillars of acacia, observances: gold. Their hooks are gold upon four lords of silver! ³³And thou shalt give the Divider under the clasps.

And thou shalt bring the Box of the Testimonies to there from inside to the Divider. And the Divider shall separate to you between the Holy and between Holy of the Holies! ³⁴And thou shalt give the cover upon the Box of the Testimonies in Holy of the Holies. ³⁵And thou shalt put the Table from outside to the Divider, and the Menorah straight-in-front-of the Table upon the piece of the Abode southward. And thou shalt give the Table upon the north piece.

³⁶And thou shalt make camouflage to the opening of the Tent blue and purple and earthworm crimson and twisted byssus, doing of variegation. ³⁷And thou shalt make to the camouflage five pillars of acacia. And thou shalt observe them: gold! Their hooks are gold. And thou shalt melt-pour to them five lords of copper!

I. The Abode and its Curtains (verses 1-3)

Yehovah commanded Moshe to make the Abode, the structure that will be called the Tent of Appointment, ten curtains. These curtains must be made of byssus: a fine linen cloth made from thread (which is made of fibers twisted together).

The colors of this byssus must include blue, purple, and earthworm crimson. These are used to pattern Crooveem, Cherubim, the work of a thinker!

One curtain’s length is 28 forearms (cubits).

Its breadth is 4 forearms.

All the curtains have the same measure as the one curtain.

Five of the ten curtains are friends, connected so that a woman is connected unto her sister curtain.

The same is true of the other five curtains.

Questions

1. What is an abode? It is a place where one occupies and normally sleeps (though it doesn’t have to be where one sleeps). It is a place where one stays for an extended period of time that can be from minutes to years (and even centuries). A dwelling, on the other hand, is where one sits; that can include an office; it isn’t necessarily where one sleeps, which is where one would abide.

2. What is this Abode? It is a place where Yehovah will dwell in the midst of the Israelis (or just outside of the midst of the Israelis). This Abode will be a strange-looking structure in which every piece and every included item will tell a (true) story!

3. How can an abode be made of just curtains? It won’t be made of just curtains; it will have columns/poles and ways of attaching the curtains to the columns. This section describes the curtains.

4. Why must there be ten curtains? The number ten itself is a type in the Bible. One text gave me the clue to its type:

Numbers 14:22 All those men that have seen my glory and my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice…

This text combined with other texts gave me the impression that 10 is the number of testing (since testing and tempting are the same in Hebrew).

If this is the case, the ten curtains typify some form of testing. Yehovah will be testing the Israelis, and the Israelis are called to test Yehovah to see that He is good.

5. What is byssus? It is a fine form of linen. Linen is made from flax, a grass-like plant that grows wild in the Middle East. When the fibers of flax are made into thread, and when the thread is made into cloth, and when the cloth is formed into garments, the material is stiff. After it has been washed a few times, it softens. Linen that is used can become very soft; yet, it is as strong as cotton. Byssus is a special form of flax fiber that is distinguishable from normal linen garments for its qualities.

6. What is twisted byssus? It is a quality-form of linen thread that (I propose) has then been twisted to make a much tougher material so that it can withstand weathering. The beauty of this material will show when it is used to make the Crooveem.

7. What does byssus typify? The word shazar in Hebrew is the combination, “that (who) is a stranger.” The word stranger will show up in another phrase in this section.

I didn’t figure what this blue, purple and earthworm crimson byssus typified until I saw it also used to form the Divider toward the end of this chapter. It was at that point that I figured what it typified. The Divider will be Yeshua’s flesh, as a text in Hebrews will explain about the veil. Thus, this combination will typify Yeshua (explained later).

8. What does blue typify? This is the color of the sky; I propose that it typifies the heavens (as in the place where the throne of Yehovah is located, or the place from which Messiah will descend). Yeshua Himself came down from the heavens.

9. What does purple typify? I understand purple to typify royalty. Such a person would be the highest in human rank. Yeshua Himself is true royalty who came down from the heavens.

10. What is earthworm crimson, and what does it typify? The Hebrew text can also read, second earthworm. The earthworm produces a form of blood that looks like human and animal blood. It is the lowliest of creatures, and it mainly lives underground. It is known for very little strength; yet, it can go through soil as if it is very strong.

Since it will be used to color the byssus, I propose that the color of blood is in mind.

When it typifies a person, it typifies the lowest in human rank. Yeshua wasn’t born in high society; he was born very poor. Had He been born into a family with any wealth, He wouldn’t have been born in an outside place, and He wouldn’t have been placed into a feedingtrough.

Yeshua is the second Adam; therefore, this connects with His being the second earthworm because He humbled Himself to the lowest rank.

11. What are crooveem? They are cherubim—that is a plural word; one is called a cherub.

Now, normally, a cherub will be an angel in the Bible: a messenger who is a spirit, not a human. A cherub isn’t some cute, cuddly angel; he is a mighty and powerful angel (who can appear as a man). One cherub easily could slaughter 100,000 humans in a very brief time if given the command. No human can hurt any of the angels, and angels don’t hurt angels.

Sometimes, the Bible will refer to a cherub who is actually Yeshua—that is, deity. God can appear as He desires.

There are two cherubim on the cover are the Storage Box (the Ark of the Testimonies). They both represent Yehovah.

The reader, then, must discern (figure out and distinguish) whether the ‘crooveem,’ the cherubim, are angels or whether they are Yeshua. I cannot yet tell whether the crooveem that are part of the byssus curtains represent Yeshua or angelic beings; they could represent both.

12. Identify them in, “Thou shalt make them Crooveem…”: The ten twisted byssus with blue, purple and earthworm crimson curtains must be made into crooveem. I do not know whether the crooveem are colored into the curtains or whether the curtains were shaped into the crooveem.

13. How will these objects be made cherubim? The text doesn’t give this information. It only states that they must be the “work of a thinker.” The fabric of byssus is off-white; the blue, purple and crimson can be used to make other colors. Yet, cherubim will be evident in the work of what these curtains typify: in the work of Messiah in physical form.

14. Why must they be the work of a thinker? What does that mean? I propose several different things about this:

Yehovah, who designed the cherubim for the sake of those who shall be heirs of Salvation, put infallible thought into their design. The depictions (drawings or weavings) that picture these cherubim will show these things if they (the drawings or weavings) are done right. Thus, the Spirit of Salvation (Yeshua) is the thinker.
The persons who will draw or weave the cherubim into the curtains must be thinkers. They must think how to do the work (the Spirit of Yehovah will help them), and they must use their thoughts to perfectly picture the cherubim so that they will look exactly like what Moshe saw in Mount Sinai.
Making the Abode out of curtains and of twisted byssus and the colors specified will require a thinker. That person must do the work perfectly; the Spirit of Yehovah will supply whatever is necessary to perfectly think and to perfectly work. It is parallel to this text:

Philippians 2:12 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For it is God Who works in you both to will and to do from His good pleasure!

15. If the length of one curtain is 28 cubits, what does the number 28 typify? I understand that two different numbers that are both types can be combined by multiplying them together to form a combined type. In this case, 7 X 4 = 28.

Now, 7 typifies a complete cycle of something, like the seven days of the week. Thus, I propose that it typifies completeness. It is also the length of the Tribulation!

4 tends to refer to the directions: north, south, east and west. Therefore, I propose that it indicates universality, which is a fancy word for everywhere or from everywhere, and under all conditions.

If these are right, multiplying them will give completeness from everywhere and under all conditions.

16. Why is this the length of the curtain? The same word that means length also means to prolong, to grow long. Only when whatever this curtain typifies (Messiah’s flesh—His Body, the Brethren) is complete from all directions will this Abode be complete. There must also be ten of these curtains; the testing (of those over whom the curtain is suspended) must also be complete; it will be the final prolongation (the longest time) of this testing. The Tribulation will be the universal testing of all humans.

17. Why is the length of 28 via a forearm? What does the forearm typify? It is the word for mother, or her mother. While the forearm can refer to Yehovah’s forearm, it can also refer to Jerusalem:

Galatians 4:26 Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Then, it can refer to a woman who is behaving as a mother to at least one Israeli (an Israeli child, for example).

(I will have to read on to see which one makes the most sense with the other types.)

Whatever the type, it is via a forearm—it will be accomplished by means of the forearm or what it typifies.

18. What does the breadth typify, and why is it 4 via a forearm? The word for breadth also means to be or grow wide, be or grow large; to be widened, be enlarged. If the number 4 indicates universality as I proposed above, this shows that whatever the curtain typifies will grow larger and larger until it is universal: happening everywhere. (Something similar to this in terms of great growth, but opposite to this in that it is very bad will be what is described in the parable of the piece of mustard seed that grows into a giant tree. The Assyrian, a very bad guy, is described as a tree that overshadows the entire planet!)

The ‘forearm’ will again be the cause.

19. What does a curtain typify? The word for curtain also is a verb that means, “He will sound her,” where sound means to cause an instrument or object to give a sound. It is used of a trumpet (and a trumpet is feminine).

I propose that Yehovah will do the sounding of the trumpet, calling for humans to respond by coming and by saving the lives of others. The length of that sounding will be such that all from all directions (universally) will be called, and until all (completely all) have responded who will respond.

20. Why must all the curtains be one measure if the types proposed above are true? I propose that there will be 10 curtains; there will be ten trumpet-soundings and callings. They will all be the same measure: completely and universally. Altogether, they will be a test.

21. If five of the curtains will be friends, as a woman unto her sister, what does this indicate? It indicates that five of these trumpet-sounding callings will occur one right after the other, connected like a woman is to her sister (in terms of being born close enough together in time), and looking like relatives (the way that sisters favour each other).

Since there are two groups of five, I propose that this shows that there will be a break between the soundings and the callings.

II. Loops (verses 4-5)

Yehovah commanded Moshe to make loops of blue. These loops must be connected upon the lip of the one curtain from the edge, and this connection must be via a friend.

The same procedure is established: Moshe must make the same via the lip of the edgemost curtain (the curtain at the far edge) via the second friendship (that is, by means of the second set of five connected curtains).

Moshe must make 50 loops by means of the one curtain. He must also make 50 loops by means of an edge of the curtain that is by means of friendship of the second curtain.

The loops are receiving! They receive, a woman unto her sister!

Questions

1. What is a loop, and what does it typify? A loop is a cloth circle to which a clasp connects. (This is normal in the case of a cloth loop that hooks over a button as on a cape.)

In the following drawing, the 50 loops (count them!) are on the left of the five pieces of cloth (that I made just blue for simplicity, since I have no idea how the cherubim looked in the fabric):

The Hebrew word for loop also means, to the weary-[one], and it is feminine. This will describe what the loop typifies.

2. What does blue typify? It is the color of the heavens. It is also related to a Hebrew word meaning completion, related to the verb to complete. The completion of all things will come from the heavens (not from man).

When I combine the loops with blue, I have this: a completion is to the weary ones. I see this as a very happy ending. Those weary women will see a good and happy completion of their journeys to safety with the children and the others they have brought!

3. What is the lip of a curtain? The lip of a human’s mouth is where it ends. The lip of the sea is the seashore. The lip of a river is a riverbank. The lip of a curtain is the edge of the curtain. (I drew all the loops on one edge, one lip, of one of the curtains.)

If the curtain typifies the sounding that Yehovah will do, these weary women (who will be completed and will find the completion of the plan of God) will be connected to the edge of Yehovah’s sounding. (It doesn’t tell whether they will be on the front edge or the back edge of His sounding, but that is where they will be.) They will remain connected to His sounding, believing the sounding and the call, and will be the greatest examples of obeying His call to come to Mount Zion while saving lives.

The loops of blue will be made of the same material (byssus) as the curtain, made from the curtain’s own material and made at the curtain’s edge, its extremity. The loops will be made via a friend.

4. Who is this friend by which the loops will be made? I thought, “What female friend will make these loops complete and connected to the trumpet call?” I then thought, “The one friend who will participate in that call will be the woman Wisdom. Also, Mount Zion, the woman, will be likewise involved. She will be a friend to those who are weary.” She (Wisdom) will instruct them in what to do; she (Mount Zion) will lead them to herself.

5. The text states, “thou shalt make via the lip of the edgemost curtain, via the second friendship.” It doesn’t state what must be made. So, what must be made? The loops themselves must be made by means of the lip of the edgemost curtain, and by means of the second friendship. Thus, they cannot be made and sewn onto the curtain; they must be made from the curtain itself.

6. Why must the loops be made from the curtain itself? This shows that the loops are absolutely one with the curtain, and not from some other material (or type). The loops will be made from that call: from that sounding that the curtain typifies—and not from some other source. The loops are part of the material of the curtain (calling) itself.

Yet, these curtains will have the very same appearance as the Divider described at the end of this chapter. Another text will tell what that Divider typifies: Messiah’s flesh. Therefore, we proposed that these things, typifying Messiah’s flesh, are therefore a type of the Body of Messiah. That Body consists of all the Israelis plus all the Israeli Saints! They will all finally respond to the call; they will either be what the loops typify or helpers of what the loops typify: the weary women who will bring the children, the elderly, those who cannot walk on their own, etc. to Mount Zion.

7. What is this second friendship, and what does it portray? I am thinking that this second friendship is the second set of five curtains that will be connected with the first set of five curtains. The next graphic shows both sets of five curtains with their loops:

8. What is “friendship of the second”? I propose that it is the second set of five curtains with the 50 loops (portrayed as the set on the right above). If I am correct, this will be the second set of five callings that are connected together, and a second part of the Body of Messiah consisting of all the non-Jewish Saints!

9. The text states, “The loops are receiving, a woman unto her sister.” What does this mean? The loops (I propose) will receive the gold clasps that will be mentioned next. The loops don’t do the clasping; they receive the clasps. The Hebrew word also indicates being in front. (Thus, I have drawn the loops as in front of the curtain’s edge: sticking out.)

If the loops typify women who are weary because of the labour that they are doing, they will be receiving both strength and other women! They will receive even more as they continue, and will be given strength to continue in their calling.

One woman who is helping and saving lives will receive another woman who is doing the same as a sister, gladly receiving her sister and helping with the responsibilities and dangers.

III. Clasps (verse 6)

Moshe must make 50 clasps out of gold.

The curtains must be ‘friendshipped’ together, a woman unto her sister, by means of the clasps. Once this is done, the Abode will be one!

Questions

1. What are these clasps? They are structures that connect loops together. I have portrayed one clasp, but that doesn’t mean this is how they appeared. I don’t know how they appeared and how they were made. I do know they were gold. Here is my drawing:

I drew it to show that it can open, and it then can be locked closed. Again, I don’t know the form of the clasps that were really used or their mechanism.

2. Why must the clasps be gold? The clasps are gold to show incorruptibility. The friendships that will form between the women (portrayed by the loops) will stand throughout time. Those friendships will be the truest form of love—not bonded by feelings, but by the mutual goals of saving lives. Such true forms of love are incorruptible. Such incorruptibility also indirectly shows the involvement of Yehovah; He is always incorruptible (incapable of rotting). Ruth and Naomi demonstrate this sort of love; Ruth is from the races, and Naomi is from Israel. Both were terribly devastated by sorrow. Ruth gives her first child to Naomi to be Naomi’s child. They raise the children together.

3. What does “And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the curtains, a woman unto her sister, via clasps” mean? The clasps will hold loops together, causing a friendship (bond) between the connected curtains (and therefore, between all ten curtains):

Since the clasps are the connectors, the Spirit of Yehovah will be the One making these connections; they will be permanent and foundationed on Biblical love (seeking the highest, best interest on behalf of each other without regard to self).

4. The declaration, “And the Abode will be one!” tells about what event? I propose that the next very lengthy text describes the two parts becoming one Abode. (Read it slowly, and think it through.)

Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, remember that ye, once the Gentiles (races) in flesh who are called Uncircumcision [therefore, non-Jews] by that called Circumcision [therefore, Jews] made by hand in flesh, ¹²that at that time, ye were apart from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenants of promise: not having Hope, and without God in the world! ¹³And now in Messiah Yeshua, ye who once were afar off are become near by the blood of the Messiah! ¹⁴For He is our peace Who made both one! And He broke down the middle wall of the fence—¹⁵the enmity—via His flesh, having annulled the teaching of commandments-in-decrees so-that He will create the two into one new man in Himself, making peace! ¹⁶And He will reconcile both to God in one Body through the cross, having slain the enmity by it! ¹⁷And having come, He announced the beneficial-proclamation: “Peace is to you who are afar off, and to those near!” ¹⁸For we both have access to the Father by one Spirit through Him! ¹⁹So then, ye are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens of the Saints and of the Household of God, ²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Messiah Yeshua Himself being the cornerstone ²¹in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy Temple in Yehovah ²²in Whom ye are also being built together for a habitation of God via the Spirit! ¹For this cause, I, Paul, prisoner of Messiah Yeshua for you races ²(if indeed ye heard of the administration of the Grace of God that was given to me towards you ³that He made known to me by revelation: the mystery, according as I briefly wrote before, ⁴by which ye, reading, are able to perceive my understanding in the mystery of the Messiah ⁵that was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it now was revealed to His holy apostles and prophets via the Spirit)—⁶The races are to be joint heirs and a joint Body and joint partakers of His promise in the Messiah through the beneficial-proclamation!—⁷of which I became a slave according to the gift of the Grace of God given to me, according to the working of His power!

IV. Goat Curtains (verses 7-9)

Next, Moshe must make curtains using goats; these curtains are to the Tent that is upon (above) the Abode. The number of goat curtains is eleven.

The length of the one curtain is 30 forearms (cubits), and the breadth is 4 forearms (cubits).

The eleven curtains must all be the same measure as the one curtain.

Five of the curtains are ‘friendshipped’ together alone, and six of the curtains are ‘friendshipped’ together alone.

Moshe must double the sixth curtain unto the ‘circumcision’ (the very frontmost) of the faces of the Tent!

Questions

1. What does a goat typify? The Hebrew word for goat is also the Hebrew word for strong, mighty, fierce. I normally render it as strength. (It is the same word from which the Uzi machine gun was named.)

2. If the above answer is true, what does ‘curtains of goats’ typify? I proposed above that the word for curtain (singular) could also mean, “I will sound her.” The plural form (used in our present text) isn’t used in the Bible except for curtains (as far as I am aware). Thus, my proposal will be novel (new). I propose that the word can indicate soundings (like the callings of a trumpet in order to signal hearkening folks to begin to do something). If that is the case, ‘curtains of goats’ in Hebrew would also mean soundings of strong-ones, in which case the strong ones—those willing to take action when it needs to be taken in order to save lives at the risk of their own lives—are being called to action.

A word directly related to the Hebrew word for strong ones means to flee for refuge. While these two ideas sound conflicting (why would a strong person flee for refuge?) they will come together during the Tribulation. The very strong ones will find others who are weak and afraid, and will take them to places of refuge, giving them boldness and strength during the time of that fleeing to refuge.

Yehovah’s [trumpet] sounding to those who will hearken so that they will flee for refuge to Mount Zion will be a very basic part of the Tribulation. The flight for refuge (to Mount Zion) is often described in the Psalms, though Yehovah made sure that only careful readers would see this. (The ‘bad guys’ at that time won’t be able to understand this, and the ‘bad angels,’ the demons, won’t be able to quickly convince the human ‘bad guys’ of this! Thus, the ‘good guys’ will have time to flee to Mount Zion!)

3. What is a curtain made of goats? It is a curtain that is made using goats, of course; yet, the text strangely leaves out what part of the goats. It could be made of goatskins; it could be made of goat hair; it could be made of both goatskins and goat hair; more importantly, it could be made from the entire goat including the bones of the goat. (The text doesn’t say, and therefore doesn’t limit the parts of the goats from which it can be made.) This curtain will have to span a distance that just can’t be spanned in the way it will be without its having a truss structure (like the structure of rafters in the top of a house). It would collapse with any rain, with snow, with wind, etc. were it not to have a truss structure. I propose that the bones of the goats will be used to devise this.

Considering what the curtains of goats typifies is so important. Yehovah gave the command, and He also gave the Israelis wisdom to know exactly what to make and use from the goats, but the most important thing for readers to know is that the curtains of goats typify strong ones (persons) who do very important things!

4. What is so important about the curtains of goats being made into a tent that is upon the Abode? First, the Abode and the Tent are separate, and are made of different materials! Yet, if one were below and looking upward, the two would look like layers with the Abode being the lowest layer and the Tent being the layer above! The support columns are the same for both. Think of the Abode as a giant blanket, and the Tent as being a slightly bigger blanket that is laid over the Abode blanket. (Only, the Tent won’t be just a blanket; it will have supporting structures built into it.)

The Tent totally covers the Abode, as if it is a protection for the Abode.

The Abode hasn’t yet been put on any poles. Its description is so far just material as if it is flat on the ground: a giant blanket. The curtains made of goats will next be made; they will be placed upon the five-curtain sets that are attached together that make up the Abode. These descriptions explain things to come in the order of events that will occur! (We will discuss these things as we explore the types.)

5. Does eleven typify anything? I am not aware that the number 11 typifies anything. I do see where it will be used elsewhere in the Scriptures; for example, there are twelve tribes to Israel, and the tribe of Levi is normally removed from the tribes for certain reasons (they don’t normally participate in war, for example). The tribe of Levi was assigned to be busy with Spiritual things. Apart from such things like this, I don’t know about the significance of the number 11.

6. Does the number 30 represent a type? I previously proposed that numbers that are types can be multiplied with other numbers that have types, combining the types. The number 3 can be a type, and the number 10 can be a type. The number 3 is used in the Shma (Deuteronomy 6:4): “Hearken, Israel! Yehovah, our Gods, Yehovah is one!” These three represent the most usual ways that Yehovah demonstrates Himself:

As Yehovah the Father
As our Gods who is the Messiah
As Yehovah the Spirit

I have therefore understood the number 3 to be a type of Yehovah as He shows Himself in all forms.

The number 10 is a type of testing/tempting. The following text showed me this:

Numbers 14:22 Because all those men who saw my glory and my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice…

When the two numbers (3 and 10) are multiplied, the type will be of testing Yehovah. This is normally exactly what a group should never do! Yet, there is a case in which this is the right thing to do: it is when Yehovah commands this, and when the person or group doing this is doing exactly what is right.

Gideon once did this:

Judges 6:39 And Gideon said unto God, “Thine anger shall not be hot against me; and I will speak but this once. I will test, na, but this once with the fleece. The dry shall now be only upon the fleece, and there shall be dew upon all the ground.”

Yehovah did exactly as Gideon requested.

Another example is found in the following text:

Isaiah 7:10 And Yehovah gathered to speak unto Akhaz to say, 11 “Ask for thee a sign from Yehovah thy God. Make-deep a request or make-her-high to the above!” ¹²And Akhaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not tempt Yehovah!”

(Akhaz was totally wrong in every way. Yehovah commanded him to do this.)

Another example of testing Yehovah is shown in this text:

Psalm 34:8 Taste-ye! And see-ye that Yehovah is Good!—happinesses of the valiant-[one]! He will trust via Him! ¹⁰His Saints shall see Yehovah! For there is no lack to His fearers.

In some cases, folks are commanded to test Yehovah. While Israel previously tested Yehovah by sinning ten times, I propose that Israel will later test Yehovah by doing what is right ten times!

7. Why is 30 the length of the curtain? I proposed above that the same word that means length also means to prolong, to grow long. What this Tent pictures will only be complete after testing Yehovah 10 times in a good way over the length of the Tribulation—that is what I am proposing.

8. Why is the length of 30 via a forearm? What does the forearm typify? The same word meaning forearm is also the word for mother, or her mother. While the forearm can refer to Yehovah’s forearm, it can also refer to Jerusalem as a mother:

Galatians 4:26 Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

It can also refer to a woman who is behaving as a mother to at least one Israeli, since the success of the plan of God will depend on such a woman doing what she must to save lives!

(I will have to read on to see which one makes the most sense with the other types; perhaps they both will make sense!)

Whatever the type, it is via a forearm—it will be accomplished by means of the forearm or what the forearm typifies.

9. What does the breadth typify, and why is it 4 via a forearm? The word for breadth also means to be or grow wide, be or grow large; to be widened, be enlarged. If the number 4 indicates universality as I proposed above, this shows that whatever the curtain typifies will grow larger and larger until it is universal: happening everywhere.

The ‘forearm’ will again be the means of bringing this all to pass.

10. What does “The one curtain is one measure to eleven curtains” mean? This means that all eleven curtains are exactly the same measure; they will typify exactly the same things. They are equivalent; one is not greater than or lesser than another.

11. Again, what does this friendshipping involve? It involves connecting them together.

12. How must they be connected together? They will be sewn together (though the text doesn’t cover the means, the stitch style, or anything like this). The text describes the connection as friendship.

13. Does the number 6 carry a type? When it does carry a type, it is the number of a man (that is, a man who isn’t born of God), one short of the number 7 that typifies completion. For example,

Revelation 13:18 He who has understanding shall count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man! And his number is Six hundred sixty and six!

Thus, the ‘beast’ (the animal who represents either the Antichrist or the Antichrist’s false prophet) is labeled with ‘a trinity of’ three sixes: 6-6-6.

14. Does the number 5 carry a type? I have thought that it might, though I wasn’t certain.

When the Israeli firstborn males were counted (Numbers 3:40), Yehovah commanded Moshe to take the number of their names. Yehovah then did a one-for-one exchange: one Levite for one firstborn male Israeli from the other tribes. (He commanded the same thing for their cattle.) Yehovah then took the Levites instead of the firstborn males from the other tribes. Now, there were more firstborn males than Levites. 5 Shekels of silver had to be collected for each person above the number.

If the number 5 is a type, it seems that it will be associated with redemption. That is what I will use.

15. What is typified if the sixth curtain is doubled? If a curtain typifies a calling, and if this curtain is made of goats (strong-ones), the sixth curtain typifies that there will be a double number of strong ones who are called, and they will be added unto the circumcision. They will be the faces of the Tent! Thus, the number of actual curtains is now 12!

16. What does this Tent typify? A tent, in general, is a portable dwelling that can be taken down and moved to another place, where it can be put up (different from a mobile home or trailer that must be transported using some type of vehicle). It typifies folks on the move and traveling. It normally doesn’t typify folks who are staying permanently in one place.

The word that means tent also means to shine, to give light. All who make up this tent will do exactly that: they will give light to others who desire to come, and who desire to also be and give light. (Light in the Bible is understanding.) Those who have light will understand what is occurring so that they can live, so that they can help others to live, and even so that they can help others to live at the expense of their own lives.

(A tent with occupants and candles gives light.) Israel has been assigned to be the light of the world. Yet, not Israel only:

Ephesians 5:8 For ye were formerly darkness, but now are light in the Lord! Walk as children of light! ⁹For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and Truth, ¹⁰proving what is acceptable unto the Lord!

Thus, the Saints who are non-Jewish are also light in the world!

17. What are the faces of the Tent? They are the part of the Tent that faces forward: the front of the Tent, just as the faces of a person are the parts of the person that face forward.

The word faces is plural because all objects have more than one face—more than one turn. (The human face has many turns to it, like the turn around the chin, the turn around the cheeks, etc.)

The faces of the Tent, in this text, are together called the circumcision. This describes the Israelis, since they will be obeying the command given to Avraham to circumcise all the males (that is, cut off the foreskin of the penis from all the males).

The Israelis will be on the move. Regardless of who travels with them (and I am thinking that there will be more traveling with them than their own number), all groups that see them will see the Israelis: the circumcision. Enemies will view the entire group as being made of Jews. Thus, what the Tent typifies will have the appearance of being Jewish even though so many who go with the Israelis won’t be Jewish.

V. Loops and Friendship (verses 10-11)

Moshe next must make 50 loops. Those loops must be placed upon the lip of the one edgemost curtain by means of ‘friendshipping’ them.

He must make another 50 loops upon the lip of the second ‘friendshipping’ curtain.

Next, He must make 50 clasps of copper!

Moshe must bring the clasps by means of the loops! In this way, he will ‘friendship’ the Tent; and the Tent, like the Abode, will be one!

Questions

1. Which lip of which edgemost curtain must be used to make the loops? The lip of the edgemost curtain at the opposite end of the doubled curtain must be used for the set with the seven curtains. (The sixth curtain was doubled; I proposed that this means that another curtain was added.)

2. How will this ‘friendshipping’ be accomplished? It appears that this will be accomplished the same way that the connections were made in the Abode.

3. Why must the clasps be made of copper? Copper is a type of justice/judgment. Thus, the seven-set of curtains and the five-set of curtains will be joined by justice between the loops—between the weary ones—the weary women.

4. What does “And thou shalt bring the clasps via loops” tell the reader?

The clasps are copper, and therefore signify justice.
The word for clasps in Hebrew also means to sink together, to collapse.
The loops represent persons or groups.
These clasps join together those who are collapsing, sinking during the judgment of Yehovah, during the Tribulation!

The loops typify female weary ones, since the Hebrew word for loops means to the weary-[ones], and is feminine in gender.

Thus, women who have taken on responsibilities and are weary will be traveling toward Mount Zion. They will bring those who are affected by the collapsing/sinking of the judgment of Yehovah and who will respond by being willing to receive the love of the Truth, as well as being willing to participate in saving the lives of others!

5. Explain the statement and the type found in the command, “And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the Tent”: Moshe (and later, Israel, acting in the same way that Moshe did in history) will bring the parts of the tent together, connecting them using the loops and clasps.

Now, Moshe represents the Torah (Teaching) of Yehovah, and Yehovah Himself, as the following texts show:

Matthew 19:7 They say unto him, “Why did Moshe then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”

Matthew 19:8 He says unto them, “Moshe suffered you to put away your wives because of the hardness of your hearts! But it was not so from the beginning!”

Mark 1:44 And says unto him, “See thou say nothing to any man! But-rather, go thy way; show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things that Moshe commanded, for a testimony unto them.”

Mark 7:10 For Moshe said, “Glorify thy father and thy mother,” and, “Whoso curses father or mother, dying, he shall die!”

Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moshe and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Thus, the Teaching (the Torah) will be the means of ‘friendshipping’ the Tent together, to make of the two pieces one piece! Weary but willing women will bring men and women who are collapsing/sinking from the judgment of Yehovah, and will connect the Tent into one piece! Because the pieces are made of goats, which typify strong ones, those who have strength (these women) will bring these strong ones who have been called together into one Body! This will be true friendship!

6. The text above (verse 6) stated, “And the Abode will be one!” This text (verse 11) states, “And he (the Tent) shall be one!” Why do both say the same thing? What does this show? They both show how the Abode of Yehovah and the Tent over the Abode will become One Body, joining Jewish and non-Jewish Saints and ‘good guys’ together! This is very important in Scriptures, and was the special proclamation given to Paul!

They both say the same thing because there will be two events where groups will be joined together via women who will bring them together!

VI. Diffusion and Excess (verses 12-13)

Since the curtains of the Tent are larger than the curtains of the Abode, there will be excess goat material. The spread of the excess will be by means of the curtain of the Tent. Moshe must spread half of the excess curtain upon the afterwards (back end) of the Abode.

There will be an excess of one forearm by means of the length of the curtain of the Tent. This excess will be spread upon the sides of the Abode from this (side) and from this (side) to blanket-cover the Abode!

Questions

1. Explain this spread/diffusion: The Hebrew word indicates both spreading out and diffusing. To diffuse is to spread out thinly, to scatter widely. This text explains that a group will be widely scattered for some purpose. This is akin to the matzah (the unleavened bread) in the following text:

1 Corinthians 11:24 “This is my Body that is broken for you.”

This Body will be spread out and diffused for the Israelis. That way, members of this Body will be able to benefit far more folks than they could if they were together in one place.

2. What is the excess, and what does it typify? I can tell that it typifies persons; the other things normally do. The curtains typify the calling from the sounding of Yehovah. The following text explains what persons they typify:

Numbers 3:46 And Yehovah spoke unto Moshe to say, ⁴⁵ “Take-thou the Levites under every firstborn in the sons of Israel, a beast of the Levites under their beasts. And the Levites shall be to me: I am Yehovah— ⁴⁶and the excess redeemed [by force] of the 3 and 70 and 200 [273] over the Levites from the firstborn of the sons of Israel. ⁴⁷And thou shalt take five: five shekels to a skull via a shekel of the Holy-[One]. Thou shalt take ten gerah, the shekel. ⁴⁸And thou shalt give the silver to Aharon and to his sons, redeemed-[ones] of the excess via them.” ⁴⁹And Moshe took the silver of the redemption [by force] from the excess-[ones] over redemptions of the Levites. ⁵⁰He took the silver from with a firstborn of the sons of Israel: 5 and 60 and 300 and 1,000 [1,365] via a shekel of the Holy-[One].

In the above text, the word excess refers to the persons who were more than the count of the Levites among the non-Levitical firstborn Israelis. Each person had to be accounted by a payment of five silver shekels (a very low price in today’s currency). The silver is a picture of redemption by force—that is, freeing a person from a captive situation by a raid and rescue (rather than by a payment). I know this because there are two different Hebrew words used for redemption; this is the one that is used when force is used. Silver typifies both kinds of redemption: by force and by payment.

The excess, then, pictures non-Levitical Israelis and others who are spread out via the sounding of Yehovah’s call, with that call being made to the Tent: to Israel, and to those who will be non-Israeli good-guys. That excess number of persons will be dispersed throughout the world. (Now, I could easily be wrong; the excess might be the Sheep/Goat non-Jewish good guys who help Israelis, the brethren of Messiah, who are in prison, naked, hungry, sick, etc.)

3. What is my After of the Abode? If I consider Exodus 33:23, where the “After” refers to Messiah, this gives me a clue regarding how this word is used:

Exodus 33:23 “And I will remove my palm. And thou shalt see my After. And they shall not see my faces.”

That term, After, speaks of the Messiah: of Yeshua. He is the One Who comes after (in time). Yeshua is the dweller in the Abode.

4. Why must the excess be spread upon this After if the identification above is correct? The group made of persons who are this excess will also be ‘hiding’ Salvation (hiding Yeshua: the After of Yehovah) among them!

5. What does “And the forearm from this and the forearm from this is via the excess, via the length of the curtain. The Tent will be spread/diffused upon sides of the Abode from this and from this” describe? The lengths of the individual curtains made of goats are 30, whereas the lengths of the individual curtains made of byssus are 28. That means that the goat curtains are 2 forearms longer than the byssus curtains. If they are lined up so that the 2 forearm lengths are distributed evenly, there will be one forearm of goats hanging over one side, and one forearm of goats hanging over the other side.

The following drawing shows a view of just the goats made into curtains. You will see that one curtain looks darker than the rest; I did this to show a doubling, even though this curtain wouldn’t really look darker; it would just be doubled:

The following drawing shows a view looking upward (as if the person is lying on the ground, and the sets of curtains are suspended in the air above the person); the byssus curtain is blue in my drawing (when it should look like cherubim), and the goats-curtain is as shown in the previous drawing. The order would be the opposite if one were looking from above (once these things are set upon the acacia tree stumps).

As you can see, the two curtain sets are evenly distributed, the goat curtain being the larger and the byssus curtain being the smaller. Thus, the goat curtain protects the byssus curtain. The length of one forearm is the width of the excess on each side (the sides appearing to be the top and bottom in this ‘landscape’ view).

6. What does “Thou shalt spread/diffuse half of the excess curtain upon my After of the Abode” typify? The After of the Abode is supposed to be viewed as the back end of the Abode. Yet, it doesn’t really indicate a back end; it indicates one who comes after (as mentioned from Exodus 33 above). This is Yeshua Himself, the Messiah and Salvation of Israel.

This excess curtain is an excess calling—one that isn’t part of the other major and open callings. Those who respond to these ‘quiet callings’ (I propose that these will be callings of their consciences telling them to help others who are in danger or are being mistreated) will include the ‘sheep’ in the so-called Sheep/Goat Judgment that starts in Matthew 25:31. (Those sheep are the ‘good guys’ who will give Yeshua’s brethren, the Jews, help during the Tribulation when they are being mistreated so badly.)

Half of this group will be upon Yehovah’s ‘After’ (referring to Yeshua) Who dwells in this Abode (between the Cherubim) (the word upon also meaning by, beside). They will be in the company of Yehovah’s Salvation, and they will later be recipients of Yehovah’s Salvation. In the meantime, Yeshua (Salvation) will carry them as they do the work of saving the lives of His brethren, the Israelis.

7. What will be the location of the final abode of the Messiah of Israel on this planet? This will be Mount Zion.

8. What type (‘picture’) does “The Tent will be spread/diffused upon sides of the Abode from this and from this to blanket-cover him” give? First, the Tent entirely covers (blanket-covers) the Abode, the place where Yehovah dwells. Then, that Tent is spread/diffused upon sides of the Abode so that the Abode is never exposed from any side.

Now, I propose that the Abode consists of the callings of Israel, while the Tent consists of the callings of both Israelis and non-Israelis who are spread/diffused and outside of the main bodies that together make up obvious Israel. Those who respond to the call are part of these callings; those who don’t aren’t part of the fabrics being described.

VII. Blanket-Covering (verse 14)

Moshe must make a blanket-covering to the Tent itself. This must be made of skins of red rams. Another blanket-covering must be made of the skins of takhashes from above the red-ram-skin covering.

Questions

1. What do skins of a red ram typify? The word for skin comes from a verb meaning to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite. The word red is associated both with blood and with humans. (The first human was red in color.) The word for ram means might (as in great power along with moral fortitude: taking a stand to do what is morally right, and therefore what is right in the sight of God). Because of the way that the words skins of red rams are spelled in Hebrew, an internal and separate statement is being made: “the arousal of their might is from men,” where men is plural, which gives me the impression of indicating that the men come from very different cultures and backgrounds.

If my observation is at all correct, this text indicates humans who have no connection with the Biblical faith, but who are awakened to action by what they are seeing, showing great might because of their consciences.

2. Why is this described as a blanket-covering? This shows the roles that persons (that this covering typifies) will take: they will cover (at the risk of their own lives) the Israeli and non-Israeli ‘good guys’ who have responded to the callings of Yehovah. They will do what they can to protect them while still being without faith in Yehovah.

3. What are takhashes? I have no idea what takhashes are, and I haven’t found a source that gives a definite identification. Their skins can be used; that is all that I know. I don’t even know if they are kosher or not! Curiously, identifying these creatures isn’t necessary to identify what they typify! (I have no doubt that the takhash will be identified later in Earth’s future history.)

4. What do takhashes typify? The singular word takhash in Hebrew has another meaning: Thou shalt hush! This describes not using one’s mouth to express protest, complaint, or any form of communication that uses sound. (Communication can be expressed in other ways as long as sound-silence is used.)

If this shows the type, takhashim describes folks who can be called ‘Hushers’—folks who will become very good at not giving away what they are doing, and whose communication forms will be without speaking out loud.

The skins of takhashes, if I am right, will be the awakenings of the Hushers—folks who will say nothing, but who will do much for the groups responding to the callings of Yehovah at the risk of their own lives.

5. Why are these two groups (covered by the descriptions of “skins of red rams and a blanket-covering of skins of takhashes” mentioned together? They will be either working together, or they will sometimes be acting as group. The ‘Hushers,’ for example, might be providing cover for those who show their might by following their consciences that arouse them to action!

6. Why must these blanket-coverings be made from above? I propose that this shows two things: They are provided from above—that is, from the heavens: from Yehovah (though they won’t necessarily know this), and they will act as cover for these other groups who are directly responding to the callings of Yehovah.

VIII. Cuttings (verses 15-18)

Moshe next must make wood cuttings (logs) to the Abode. They must be made from standing acacia trees.

The length of one cutting is 10 forearms (cubits).

The breadth of one cutting is 1 and ½ forearms.

There are two hands to one cutting. Those hands are connecting, a woman unto her sister.

Established, Moshe shall make all the cuttings of the Abode the same way.

There will be 20 cuttings to the Abode. One cutting goes to a corner southward and to the right.

Questions

1. What are these cuttings? They are cut logs. We figured this out because only two dimensions are given: the length and the breadth. Had these been boards, they would have three dimensions: the length, the breadth and the width. These are really entire pieces of acacia trees, and they are big!

2. How tall are these acacia logs? They are ten cubits, which means that they are 15 feet long! That is a story and a half tall!

3. How broad are these acacia logs? If they are a forearm and a half, they are 18 + 9 inches, or 27 inches. Thus, they are more than 2 feet in diameter. They are very large!

4. How much would an acacia log of this size weigh? It would weigh about 550 pounds! (That is without the gold that will cover each.) It would take 11 men who could handle 50 pounds to move one of these logs!

5. Why did Yehovah desire them to be so big? There will be several reasons. One practical reason is so that the weight of the curtains will not be able to cause sagging. (Those curtains will not be light; they will be heavy, too. They are large!)

6. What does acacia typify? I said in the previous chapter (Exodus 25) that the word for acacia in Hebrew, shōt, means to fly at high speeds. It describes the end of a whip or of a flagellum (a microscopic whip of a one-celled creature that uses its whip to swim). (I propose that the branches of the acacia are very good for making a scourge/a whip!)

If this is correct, trees of acacia typify stable, potentially fruit-bearing mortals (mortals are humans who can be killed or who can die, which describes all the folks you know) who will be able to travel at very high speeds (and, if the whip is part of this type, they will also be quick and strong to chastise those who don’t cooperate!). The travel that I am describing, if this is correct, will occur during the Tribulation as groups of these folks go toward Mount Zion during a time when travel anywhere in the world will be the most dangerous it has ever been, and when there are more obstacles (things in the way) to travel than there has ever been. These folks will be able to continue traveling as if there are no obstacles and as if there are few dangers.

I will add that these acacia trees are stable in very harsh and hot conditions, being trees of the Middle East. Persons are compared to trees in the Bible (Psalm 1 is an example).

7. The text describes two hands to each cutting. What are these hands, and what is their purpose? The hands are branching parts that connect to hands of the logs next to them. The appearance is that of cut trees holding hands with cut trees. These hands will stabilize the tall standing logs:

8. What does “they are connecting, a woman unto her sister” tell the reader? These acacia beams with hands typify women (or groups that will be feminine in gender, like the ‘church’ is feminine in gender) who will uphold each other as they uphold what the curtains typify.

9. What does “Established, thou shalt make to all cuttings of the Abode” mean? This same pattern will be used in all the construction. Thus, all these beams will be connected, one to another. (They will also later have rods that go through them farther down so that they will have more than one connection point.)

10. How many of these cuttings will there be? There will be a total of 40 (not counting the separating curtain, and not counting all that will make up the courtyard!), though this text describes the one set of 20 going to one extremity that is southward and rightward. It describes them separately because the one group of 20 will be separate from the other group of 20 (the Abode having two chambers) as they (the persons whom these cuttings typify) do their works and as they travel from their locations. One cutting will only have contact with two others; they will be holding hands with those two. (They each only have two hands.)

11. Why did Yehovah insist upon this structure being designed and made according to directions of east, west, south and north? Couldn’t it have been set up facing any direction? Since this structure tells a story (including a story about travelers), the structure’s construction must include such directions so that a reader can learn: From where certain ones will come? And, Where they are going?

IX. Lords of Silver and Twins (verses 19-25)

Moshe must make 40 lords of silver under the twenty cuttings. As for the cutting: two lords are under the one cutting to two of the cutting’s hands, and two lords are under the one cutting to two of the cutting’s hands.

There will be twenty cuttings going to the north corner for the second piece of the Abode. This will make a total of 40 of their lords of silver. Again, two lords are under the one cutting, and two lords are under the one cutting.

Next, Moshe must make six cuttings to the sides of the Abode toward the sea (westward).

Moshe must make two cuttings to the strippings-off (the disconnected section) of the Abode by means of two sides. Those two cuttings will be their twin from below. The two cuttings will be unified perfect ones upon the Abode’s head all the way unto the one sunk-impression. He will be established to two of the cuttings! They shall be to two of the strippings-off!

Questions

1. What is a lord of silver? A lord is who a slave serves. A lord directs others and is responsible to and for others. A lord is like a king, but is over fewer subjects. Such a person can be called a master.

A lord of silver is one who is in charge of others and who redeems (since silver is a type of redemption). Redemption is freeing one who is being held either by paying a price for the freedom or by using force. A lord of silver, then, is one who has mastery over redemption (of whatever kind is necessary).

2. Why must there be forty lords of silver? First, I propose that the number shows how many there really will be who will be given the ability to redeem others who are being held as prisoners.

Also, the number 40 itself is a type. It is 4 X 10, and both 4 and 10 are types. 4 is often used in connection with north, south, east and west, showing all directions, and thus 4 pictures universality—that is, something that takes place in all directions on earth. 10 is a number associated with testing/tempting. (When Yehovah does it, it is testing, which is always designed to be beneficial; when man does it toward God, it is usually tempting Him, which isn’t good.) The following is a text showing this number being used as tempting:

Numbers 14:22 “…for all those men who have seen my glory and my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and haven’t hearkened to my voice…”

When the numbers multiply, their types join together. Thus, 4 (universality) X 10 (testing) = 40 (universal testing). Universal testing is an opportunity for a group to completely and consistently do right. It is also used to stop a bad group so that it can’t do wrong. For example,

Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

In the case of this text, Yehovah gave Israel 40 years to determine whether or not the next generation would be willing to do the few and simple commands that Yehovah gave to Israel.

There will be 40 lords of silver under twenty acacia cuttings to show that those who are represented by the acacia trees covered in gold will be founded on two kinds of redemption, and that they will be universally tested in order to prove that they will do only what is right!

3. What does twenty typify? Twenty is 2 X 10. I proposed that 10 typifies testing.

2, I propose, refers to the number of Bodies that will be functioning during the Tribulation until they become one. There will be a Body of non-Jewish Saints that will consist of scattered groups out to save lives of Jews (and their friends), and there will be a Body of Jewish Saints who will be doing the same. Now, the two Bodies will have a disagreement over how they view the Torah. The Jewish group will be convinced that the Torah (Teaching) consists of commandments in ordinances (in decrees: that Yehovah decreed the various commands, and seeing beyond those decrees, those public enactments of rules, isn’t what is important; just doing them is what is important). The non-Jewish group will be convinced that the Torah (Teaching) isn’t made of commandments in decrees (though I haven’t found the text describing how this group will view the Torah).

The two groups will be tested while having at their foundation (what holds them stable during the Tribulation) the lords of silver—the drive and command to redeem Jewish prisoners (using payment or force).

4. The text next describes the cutting. What does this cutting typify? A cutting of wood is split off from the roots and the branches in which it was located. A cutting is made from a standing tree. It is suddenly disconnected. I propose that each represents a person who fulfill the following:

Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for the sake of my Name shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life!

(Everlasting life is portrayed by the wood being covered with gold, since gold pictures incorruptibility.) Each person who forsakes those things listed in the text above for the sake of Yeshua’s Name—that is, for the sake of Salvation, for the sake of saving the lives of others will become a pillar in the House of Yehovah:

Revelation 3:12 I will make him who overcomes a pillar in the Temple of my God! And he shall go no more out! And I will write the name of my God upon him, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem that comes down out of the heavens from my God! And I will write my new name upon him!

5. Why are two lords under the one cutting? Each cutting (representing a person) will do his/her work by doing both kinds of redemption (payment redemption or redemption by force: freeing others from being prisoners).

6. Why are these silver lords under one cutting to two of his hands? The hands typify works throughout the Bible. Each person represented by the cuttings of Acacia trees will use all of his/her works to provide redemption and to hold up what the curtains typify so that what the curtains typify are being carried and supported! These persons are great heroes and heroines!

7. What does the wording, “two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands and two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands” show? This wording shows that each cutting will be doing the works of redemption independent of the other cutting, though each cutting will actually be totally connected to the cuttings next to it!

8. Why is the Abode divided up into two pieces? This shows what will be true when what the Abode pictures will be fulfilled. There will be two separated main groups making up what the Abode typifies. They will be joined by 50 gold clasps, showing that the incorruptible God will join them, and that they will be joined by what never fails: genuine Biblical (and practical) love, but they will still be two separated bodies.

9. What does the Abode typify? It is made of what the following typify:

The blue pictures the heavens
The purple pictures royalty
Earthworm crimson pictures the most humble and powerless
Twisted byssus pictures very strong righteousness
Cherubim are ministering spirits of God who have incredible strength

While I propose that all these together show the ‘fabric’ of the Saints who form two Bodies that are finally connected together, they also picture Messiah in His fleshly form. He came from the heavens. He was royalty. He humbled Himself to the lowest rank. He demonstrated perfect and strong righteousness. He was the Angel Yehovah, and He commanded and commands all angels.

John 14:23 Yeshua answered. And He said unto him, “If a man loves me, he will guard my sayings! And my Father will love him! And we will come unto him, and make our abode with him!”

Yehovah and Yeshua will make visitations during the Tribulation.

The Saints in the two Bodies will coordinate together with perfection, being the work of a thinker (the thinker being Yeshua).

10. What is the north extremity? It is the section of the Abode that is northward (and therefore leftward in the drawing):

Since directions in the Bible always use Jerusalem as the center of the compass, I propose that the text describes events that will occur north of Jerusalem—in the north extremity of the planet. (That section of the planet is called Gog in other places, meaning roof—the roof of land north of Jerusalem. It includes Moscow, and goes north from there.)

11. Why will the twenty cuttings in the north also have forty lords of silver? The same two types of redemption will occur there: redemption by payment and redemption by force, in order to save the lives of Jews and their friends.

12. What is the purpose of six cuttings (parts of standing Acacia trees) being made to the sides of the Abode toward the sea (and what sea is this)? I propose that these six cuttings typify six persons who will be active and successful leaders in the regions around the Mediterranean Sea, supporting and upholding those who are typified in the Abode.

13. What are these cut-outs? The Hebrew word means to cut off or out, to scrape, to strip off bark; to break: as in angles, corners. I propose that this will refer to those who are disconnected from other groups, considered unclean, broken—perhaps those who are like the Samaritans, the eunuchs or the sons of the Foreigner who are grasping via His Covenant: cut off or out, broken off from any of the groups, and yet part of the groups in Yehovah’s eyes:

Isaiah 56:3 And the son of the foreigner joined unto Yehovah shall not say, to say, ‘Yehovah, dividing, divided from upon His people.’ And the eunuch shall not say, ‘Behold, I am a dry tree!’” ⁴For so said Yehovah to eunuchs who will guard my Shabbats and chose in what I desired, and are grasping via my Covenant, ⁵ “And I will give Hand and Good Name to them in my House, and good in my walls from [better than] sons and from [better than] daughters. I will give to them a Name of Hider that will not be cut! ⁶And the sons of the foreigner joined unto Yehovah to minister-to Him and to love Name Yehovah, to be to him to slaves and to bless Name Yehovah, and every guard of the Shabbat [fem.] from piercing him (her, Dead Sea Scrolls) and graspers via my Covenant, ⁷and I will bring them unto the Mountain of my Holy-[One]! And I will rejoice them in the House of My Prayer! Their ascensions of her and their sacrifices of her shall ascend to desire upon my altar! For my House shall be called House of Prayer to All the Peoples,” ⁸declared my Lords Yehovah, Gatherer of expelled-[ones] of Israel! “Further, I will gather upon him to his gathered-[ones]!”

If I am right, they are on both sides of the Abode, and they are pillars just as the rest of the pillars, yet they are just outside of the rest of the pillars; still, they are right beside the Head (Yeshua)! (You can see them pictured above; they are the four circles that are outside of the rectangle in the drawing.)

14. What does “they shall be their twin from below” mean? When looking at them from on Earth, they will in every way be exactly like each other and the other pillars. There will be no way to distinguish them!

15. Explain, “And they shall be unified perfect-[ones] by his head…” These pillars will be unified: joined to the other pillars and to each other. They will be perfect ones, being and doing exactly what pillars must be and do without fail, and being pictures of persons who will be and do exactly as Yehovah designed them to be and assigned them to do, by His power. “By his head…” is by the Head of the Abode: by Yeshua.

I understand the types to indicate this: The persons these pillars typify will be unified—that is, they will be joined to the other persons (that the pillars and the Abode typify) in every good work. They will be perfect before Yehovah, being and doing exactly what Yehovah designed them to do, and being obedient to all that Yehovah will tell them to do. They will later be positioned by Yeshua (the Head of the Abode) on His right hand and on His left hand in a place of great honour for their selfless heroism.

16. The next text refers to them as being unified “unto the one sunk-impression.” What is a sunk-impression? When I considered the Hebrew word behind this, I realized that the word indicated two things at the same time: something sunk into something else (that is, it is as if it has been pressed deeply into place in something else), and something impressed or pushed down until its shape is inside something else. Thus, I translated the word as sunk-impression.

How does a sunk-impression look? I propose that a sunk impression of gold is made like a socket to fit into a hole through the tree so that a bar (described later) can be pushed through the tree. Here is a proposed picture:

It is sunk into the tree and made of gold to act as shaft holder for the rod (described later) that goes through it.

17. What does a sunk-impression typify? It is a means of connection through the tree. Since it is gold, it typifies incorruptibility. I propose that it typifies Yehovah Himself Who brings the connection of what the bar typifies through what the tree typifies. Since it normally goes through more than one tree, it stabilizes several trees and connects them into one structure! (Elaine later proposed that Biblical love, which never fails, is also therefore incorruptible; the gold can therefore show that the connection will be that type of love.)

18. How will they be unified unto the one sunk-impression? If the bars that go through these twin tree shafts connect to the end of the bar that goes through a line of trees, they will be unified unto the one sunk-impression through which the main bar goes. The V-shaped shaft in the drawing below goes through a tree. I have shown two shafts coming together to one shaft that goes into the sunk-impression through the tree shown:

19. What does “He will be established to two of them” mean? This means that there will be two sets of these.

20. What does “They shall be to two of the cut-outs” mean? This means that they will be located on two of the cut-outs locations, which I propose indicates the corners (by the head: the darker curtain section in the drawing).

These unified perfect ones who are connected to the two cut-outs of the Abode, where the Abode ends, and yet are right by the Head of the Abode have the same appearance as all the other cuttings (acacia tree pillars). Yet, they are given place to the right hand and to the left hand of the Head (Whom I propose to be Messiah, the opening of the Abode). They are also established on the same silver lords: two each, and are therefore founded on the same redemptions (by payment and by force).

21. Why is “And eight cuttings shall be” so important? If types multiply as I have proposed, 2 X 4 = 8. Now, 4, I proposed, typifies universality (north, south, east and west), and two, I also proposed, referred to the two Bodies: the Body of Israel, including Jewish Saints, and the Body of non-Jewish Saints. Both will be functional as separate units during a good part of the Tribulation. When those two are combined, the picture is of two Bodies universally functioning.

22. What information can the reader obtain by learning that their lords are silver? Their lords (their masters and rulers) are redemption! That is what drives them to work for others: to rescue them from being held by enemies!

23. Does the number sixteen typify anything? If the numbers multiply as I proposed above, the number 16 has several different ways to multiply to obtain it: 2 X 8, 4 X 4, 2 X 2 X 4, 2 X 2 X 2 X 2… When I run into that many choices, I begin to figure that I won’t know what types, if any, will be shown. I proposed that the number 8 pictures two Bodies universally functioning. This particular number, 16, however, refers to silver lords, and not to persons themselves. Thus, I will leave this one alone regarding types. (The number 16 can represent the number of times that redemption will be successfully done by these eight persons represented by the eight standing acacia trees!)

24. What does “two lords are under the one cutting and two lords are under the one cutting” mean? This shows that there will be two lords of silver under each of these cuttings, and not just under some of them.

When I tried to see if I could draw two lords of silver that would be under one acacia tree cutting, at first I thought they might be different sizes. When I reread the text, I decided that this wouldn’t be right. So, I thought, “How can I draw two equal lords of silver under one cutting?” I then had an idea. Now, I am certainly not claiming that this is how these lords of silver appeared, but I wanted to show you my idea of how I could make them both equal, and yet both be under the tree pole at the very same distance and position:

The above is when the two silver lords are apart. The darkened portion on the ‘finger’ ends represents silver that comes upward to hold the acacia poles from sliding. When they are brought together, they look like the following:

They can grasp the acacia tree poles by being pulled apart while the poles are standing on them, thus locking the poles. (You will have to use your imagination to see what I mean.) The following is a proposed view of the poles with the silver lords grasping them at the bottom:

X. The Acacia Bar (verses 26-29)

This text always describes one bar. Moshe must make their bar (the bar is for the cuttings) trees of acacia. Five are to cuttings of one piece of the Abode, and five are to cuttings of the second piece of the Abode. Then, five are their bar to the cuttings of a piece of the Abode to two sides, seaward (westward).

The middle bar in the midst of the cuttings is fleeing from the edge unto the edge!

Moshe shall observe the cuttings: gold! He must make their sunk impressions gold; they are houses to their bar!

Moshe shall observe their bar; it is gold!

Questions

1. Who is their in, “thou shalt make their bar trees of acacia”? They are the cuttings—the trees of cut acacia. They can also refer to the Abode and the Tent, since all the items together own the bar.

2. Why is bar singular when the text describes five in one part, five in another part, and five on another side? While the text describes a number of these bars, the text assumes that there is only one bar holding the entire structure together. This is very important for the reader to know.

3. What does this bar typify? The same word for bar also means to flee, to pass through, to hasten. The entire Abode and the Tent with the acacia poles typify this movement of the entire group that will be fleeing to Mount Zion, passing through the various areas of the world, hastening to get to safety.

Yehovah showed how one large community could do this when He took Israel out of Egypt and walked Israel for years through inhospitable lands, feeding and prospering the Israelis and making sure that their shoes didn’t wear out. This will be done on a much larger scale in the Tribulation, though in much smaller individual groups over a much shorter period of time, yet coordinated with One Head (Messiah) until all the small groups form into one large group on Mount Zion!

Since the bar is made of Acacia covered with gold, I understand that it typifies one who is mortal and who put on immortality. Yet, this being goes right through the persons typified by the standing cuttings of acacia trees. Thus, I propose that the bar typifies Yeshua who will be coordinating the fleeing of the entire Abode and Tent as it goes to Mount Zion.

Combine this with what acacia typifies (humans who will be able to travel at very high speeds and, if the whip enters in, will be quick and strong to chastise those who don’t cooperate), and I propose that the picture of what will occur during this fleeing will be like a military operation designed to save lives under the strictest rule of the heroes/heroines (shown as acacia trees). Whatsoever they do will prosper (as it states in Psalm 1).

4. Propose an arrangement of these bars so that what the text describes is in the pictures:

The following drawings are arrangements that I proposed to meet what is required. Count them to see if I did it right. The first view is as if one is lying down on the ground and looking straight up: a child’s view. Yet, the whole structure would have to be suspended in the air to have this view!

The next view is of the very front; I proposed four acacia pillars for this, and I proposed two bars going through them (the other three will be in back to make a total of five):

Next is the back of the front section of the structure (the structure has two halves: a front and a back, with the front called Holy, and the back called Holy of Holies):

Now, only look at the bars; they are straight through and are not angled upward. (The parts that are angled upward are the hands that all the acacia pillars will have; I have drawn only two for this picture. The two hands reach up and grasp each other. They are also made of acacia wood covered with gold. I am thinking that they will support the Abode, the Tent and the skins along with the pillars.) So, if I count just the bars in the two pictures, I do have five.

Next, I will show the two views of the back piece (the Holy of Holies):

If I count only the bars, this again has five.

Next, I must see the two sides to see if I have five, with the middle bar extending all the way through:

Now, the forked middle bar is still one bar (in my counting). Two acacia pillars are attached to the fork, one to each prong of the fork.

5. Why must the middle bar flee from the edge unto the edge? This is described in the following text:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore exhort you—I the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called ²with all humility and meekness: with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, ³being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: ⁴one Body and one Spirit, even as ye were also called in one Hope of your calling: ⁵one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, ⁶one God and Father of all Who is over all and through all and in you all!

That Middle Bar holds the entire structure together as one structure instead of being as two; it flees from edge to edge, coordinating the movement of the entire Abode and Tent so that all will remain together, and yet will be held as One Body. (The actual structure being built doesn’t move once it is put together, but it pictures movement in the types.) When the Saints and the ‘good guys’ flee during the Tribulation, Yeshua Himself will go with them and will be in their midst, coordinating everything from edge to edge over the entire planet! This will be like the wheel within the wheel in Ezekiel: a wheel that is huge with eyes all around its rim, a wheel that is moving at the speed of light on the earth, showing that Yehovah is omnivident: all-seeing at the same time! This Middle Bar flees from one side to the other with great speed doing coordination of all in the structure!

6. Why will the cuttings be observed as gold? They will be entirely covered with gold! That gold typifies incorruptibility. The cuttings typify persons who are mortal (and therefore, capable of dying, and rotting: of corrupting). Yet, observing these heroes and heroines, they will seem like they are incorruptible, because they have put on incorruption: they have put on that faith that is Biblical, and they have been given Salvation (both physically and everlastingly)! Thus, those who see them work the great and miraculous works of God to save lives and to uphold the Abode, the Tent and the coverings will recognize them as incorruptible, their love as incorruptible!

7. Why must their sunk-impressions also be lined with gold all the way through? The bar that (I propose) typifies the Messiah of Israel that goes through them and holds them is also made of wood covered with gold: corruption that has put on incorruption. Yeshua was born with a mortal body; He rose with an immortal body.

The leaders of the heroes and heroines that are represented by the trees will remain connected, and they won’t fall or fail in their goals. Their faith will hold and remain; it won’t become corrupted.

I propose that the sunk-impressions will be lined with the incorruptible gold to show that love, that doesn’t fail, will be what connects Yeshua, the bar, with all of the heroic leaders who uphold the entire structure. (I have proposed a definition for love: seeking the highest, best interest on behalf of another without regard to self.) The kind of love that these folks will show will be of this nature, and not of the regular ‘love’ that often fails that we see in normal society.

8. Why does the text say, “Houses to their bar”? Each of the persons typified by the standing acacia trees will have these sunk-impressions. Those incorruptible gold sunk-impressions will be houses to what the bar typifies. If that gold also pictures the love by which these heroes and heroines will function, they will be filled with the Spirit of Yeshua Himself so that they will have both the power and the behaviour to do what is exactly right and according to Biblical love! Those who love Salvation (Yeshua) will guard His commandments (including His brethren)!

9. What might be an image of this sunk-impression? I have proposed a drawing of the sunk-impression:

It is gold, and it goes all the way through, acting as a sleeve for the bar so that there is a very perfect and tight fit.

10. Why must the bar be observed as gold? If the bar typifies Messiah, as I have proposed, He, being mortal in His flesh, also put on incorruption! What is seen, then, is what doesn’t fail, but what abides: that love (that saves lives)!

XI. Standing Abode (verse 30)

Moshe must cause the Abode to stand according to the Abode’s justice that Moshe was shown in Mount Sinai.

Questions

1. Yehovah commanded Moshe to make the Abode stand according to his justice. What does this mean? Moshe was shown every detail about the Abode and its Tent, and all things that are part of this structure. (That is why he was in the mountain with Elohim 40 days and 40 nights!) The very way that this structure must be assembled shows a picture of Yehovah’s justice—of His rendering a right decision based on all facts. (Until we see how this structure is assembled, we won’t know the details of His justice in action; we can read about parts of His justice in Biblical texts.)

The very size of this structure makes assembling it totally impossible unless it is assembled exactly right. Elohim showed Moshe how to assemble it so that it would go exactly together and be firm and safe, and so that no one will get hurt in the process! (The standing acacia trees are very heavy, and the ‘goat’ curtain is very long and wide, and also very heavy. It is covered with very heavy skins that are sewn together to form a huge covering!) Setting up this giant structure required a particular order, and that order also shows justice—the very justice that the Spirit of Yeshua will use when constructing together what this giant and impossible structure pictures (typifies) during the Tribulation! This structure typifies the Church on Earth with Israel at its core, and all living (mortal) Saints and all non-saint friends upholding Israel by the power of God and by the love of Salvation—saving lives (in both ways: physically saving lives, and seeing everlasting life come to folks).

The angels that rebelled did so because they challenged Yehovah’s justice. Those demons will now see that Yehovah’s justice is perfect as what this structure typifies is constructed by Yehovah!

XII. Divider and Crooveem (verses 31-33)

Yehovah next commanded Moshe to make a Divider using blue, purple and earthworm crimson. The Divider must be made of twisted byssus, and it must be a making of thought! Moshe must make her crooveem (cherubim).

Moshe must give her upon four pillars of acacia; when anyone observes, the person will see gold.

Their hooks are gold upon four lords of silver!

Moshe must give the Divider under the clasps.

Questions

1. What is the purpose of this Divider? It will separate between the Holy chamber and the Holy-of-Holies chamber: between the front of the Abode and the back of the Abode.

2. What do blue, purple, and earthworm crimson typify? I previously proposed that blue typifies the heavens, purple typifies royalty, and earthworm typifies the lowest in rank of all, being the lowliest of the creatures that contain crimson blood.

3. What does this Divider typify (besides being what it obviously is: a Divider)? The Hebrew word that translates to Divider comes from a word meaning to break, break down, crush (as in cracking nuts); to separate. It was used to describe oppression and rigour (crushing) in the following texts:

Exodus 1:13 And the Egyptians slave-drove the children of Israel via crushing. ¹⁴And they embittered their lives via hard slavery: via mortar and via bricks and via every slavery in the field with all their slavery that they slaved via them via crushing.

Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with crushing, but shalt fear thy God.

This idea of crushing has in it the idea of separating (like that which was done in American slave markets when families where broken up, crushing and separating the family units).

Yeshua described a series of events that will take place during the Tribulation in the following statement:

Mark 10:29 And Yeshua said, answering, “I say faith to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for the sake of me and of the beneficial proclamation ³⁰if they shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and everlasting life in the age that is coming! ³¹And many first shall be last, and the last first.”

Why will a person do this, and be right and righteous? It will be “for the sake of me”—that is, for the sake of Yeshua; for the sake of Salvation—for the sake of saving the lives of others who are not direct brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children. This departure will become necessary when one’s own family will try to stop that person from doing the work of a hero/heroine during the Tribulation. Only heroes/heroines (and those whom they rescue) will gain entry to the Kingdom of the Heavens during the Tribulation, as Yeshua has been warning in almost all His parables.

Another reason why a person will do this is for the sake of the beneficial proclamation (commonly known as the gospel, but without the meaning of the word gospel normally being provided). Every gospel in the Bible is a potentially beneficial proclamation. It is beneficial if the hearer will hearken. It is not beneficial, and it is often damning, if the hearer will not hearken. The Bible contains numerous gospels—numerous proclamations that are potentially beneficial. Without exception, every one is designed to save lives. The same will be true in the Tribulation. A person who departs from the above list of family members and real estate in order to save lives (which is the same as for the sake of the gospel) will be doing right.

This Divider (I propose) pictures this division that will be necessary to be part of that group identified with the Holy of Holies. That group is described in the following text:

Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens shall be given to the people of the Saints of the Most High Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom! And all dominions shall serve and obey Him!

This text describes three groups: the people, the Saints, and the Most High. Now, the Most High is obviously Yehovah/Yeshua. He owns the Saints—that is, the Saints of every race. Yet, the Saints in turn own one people: the People of Israel! Since ownership is expressed by the word holy in the Bible (holy only and always means owned), this text describes the holy people (of Israel) being owned by the Holies—that is, the holy ones—those from all the races whom Yehovah owns. Therefore, the inner chamber that we are discussing in Exodus 26 is made of those who are both holy and who are holy of holies: the owned of the owned ones!

What will give entrance to this chamber is the oppression that will to break, break down, crush and separate those heroes and heroines from others unwilling to participate in these life-saving events; they will separate themselves to go and to stand with Israel and the Gods of Israel, becoming part of what that inner chamber typifies.

Yet, there is another answer for what this Divider typifies! Proof of this answer will be found below in another question. I will just mention it here: It typifies Yeshua’s flesh!

4. What does byssus typify? This word combines groping with stranger. I understand it to typify the groping of a stranger. This puts me in mind with an event that occurred with Isaac. Isaac was determined to bless his firstborn, Esau. Yet, that blessing belonged to Jacob, since Jacob had purchased the birthright. Now, Rebecca, a great heroine in the Bible for the act I am about to describe, saw that her husband, Isaac, was about to give the blessing to the wrong son. Isaac hadn’t remembered the speech that Yehovah had spoken to Rebecca years before when He stated,

Genesis 25:23 “Two races are in thy belly. And two folks will be separated from thine internals. And a folk will be-bolder than a folk. And a many will serve a younger.”

Isaac was about to prophesy that the many would serve Esau! Rebecca got to work and dressed up Jacob as Esau in order to deceive her husband, Isaac. She knew that Isaac was in danger, since what Isaac was about to state would be prophecy. Yet, Isaac couldn’t go back on what he promised to Esau; the only reasonable solution was to fool Isaac so that Isaac did what was right before Yehovah, and give the blessing to Jacob. In the meantime (and this is the point of my mentioning this), Isaac kept thinking that something was wrong; he groped Jacob to see if he truly was Esau; Jacob felt like a stranger to him in some ways. Thus, Isaac didn’t recognize Jacob (Israel), and he groped him to see who he was (since Isaac was almost totally blind).

I propose that this twisted byssus will typify these tightly knit units that are in Yeshua. Like Isaac, they will bless Israel without necessarily knowing or understanding that it is Israel they are blessing, or that the Covenant includes a vow to Israel about Israel’s being served by many!

5. Why does the text state that this Divider must be made, and that it is a making of thought? It will require real thought for one to separate himself/herself from his/her family and friends in order to do what is right. Israel itself must make this division among every rank; parents and children must divide up if they disagree about these life-saving occupations and actions. This is why the following text states what it does in Hebrew:

Malachi 4:5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrifying Day of Yehovah! ⁶And he shall turn the heart of the fathers upon the children and the heart of the children upon their fathers lest I come and smite the land with a curse!”

Upon normally means against when it is used this way in Hebrew! Much thought will go into a decision to turn against parents/children for the sake of saving the lives of others!

This Divider must be made because the physical part of Yeshua was indeed made of the soil and from the seed of David!

6. Why must this Divider be made cherubim? What does that mean? The cherubim of Yehovah will be totally involved in this separation. When Yeshua took a stand to do what was right, after having been tempted, the angels aided Him:

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil leaves Him. And behold, angels came and ministered unto Him.

If Yeshua needed angelic ministering, I am sure that those who do right under the terrible conditions of the Tribulation, losing all that is closest to them, will need the cherubim to minister to them.

7. Why must she be given upon acacia? If acacia both pictures great strength and typifies speed, that separation will demand speed from those who enter into the Holy of Holies chamber, participating with Israel in the terrible plight of the Tribulation. What the acacia trees typify will uphold the Divider, putting on the Divider (as putting on Christ):

Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah!

8. Why must there be four pillars? I propose that this will show that persons will come from the four directions: north, south, east and west, and will universally suffer this separation to do what is right. They must all come through Messiah’s flesh!

9. Why will the pillars appear gold? This shows that the persons who do the work that these pillars typify will be granted incorruptibility; they will later be born of God (if they aren’t already).

10. What do these hooks typify? This is actually the very Hebrew letter vav itself! It is the number 6 in Hebrew. The letter vav looks like a nail or a straight hook:

I propose that these hooks that are gold (and thus are incorruptible) will picture the incorruptible connection (how about love) between the Divider and the acacia pillars (standings). Those pillars show taking a stand and standing for what is right (I propose), and the hooks will connect the stand and the division together in a way that won’t deteriorate.

11. Why are they upon four lords of silver instead of eight? I propose that there will be only one kind of redemption that those who take this stand will need: the redemption with a price. Entering into that chamber will not be accomplished by force.

12. Why must the Divider be under the clasps? Consider the two types. The Divider typifies to break, break down, crush; to separate. It was used to describe oppression and rigour (crushing). It also pictures Messiah’s flesh: His coming in a physical, mortal body. Clasps typify sinking together, collapsing. Since the Divider is under the clasps, the crushing and divisive oppression, and yet the work of the Messiah, will occur under the sinking together and the collapsing that will bring those who truly fear Yehovah together to work together from various sources. Thus, Messiah’s work will function in the middle of the worst of the Tribulation!

XIII. Holy of Holies (verses 33-35)

Moshe next must bring the Box of the Testimonies to that location, from inside, and to the Divider. That Divider will separate to the Israelis between the Holy and between the Holy of the Holies!

Moshe must give the Divider upon the Box of the Testimonies in (or via) Holy of Holies.

Moshe next must put the Table from outside to the Divider.

The Menorah must be straight in front of the Table upon the piece of the Abode, southward.

Moshe must give the Table upon the north piece of the Abode.

Questions

1. Why must the Box of the Testimonies be brought specifically from inside to the Divider? The Divider typifies the crushing oppression that will divide families, friends, households, etc., and it typifies Messiah Yeshua’s flesh. It is through these things that the Box of the Testimonies will be brought!

The Box of the Testimonies will come to reside among the owned one of the owned ones (the Holy of the Holies): the People of Israel who are owned by the Saints of the Most High. That Box will contain those testimonies that Israel will finally believe, and that Israel and Israel’s friends will finally see fulfilled!

The terrible division must happen first, however, before those things in the Box will be fulfilled. Israel will not turn to Truth until that division occurs as described.

2. Why will the Divider separate to you (whoever they are) between the Holy and the Holy of the Holies? You are the Israelis. On this side of that Divider is the Holy chamber with its testimonial items. Now, Israel is holy (owned). Only when that terrible division occurs, however, will Israelis come to recognize that they are truly owned by all the Saints: that they are Holy (owned), and are owned by the Holies (the owned ones: the Saints of all races).

3. Why must ‘thou’ (whoever he is) give the cover upon the Box of the Testimonies in Holy of the Holies at this time? Thou refers to Moshe, but I have elsewhere proposed that it refers to all Israel when Israel will have the perspectives and faith of Moshe. By doing what is right, Israel will give that cover (with Yehovah, our Gods, Yehovah as one on it) back onto the Box of the Testimonies of Israel! Before this time, Israel drove Yehovah off (since Yehovah would have otherwise greatly destroyed Israel for all of Israel’s adulterous idolatry). With Yehovah gone, it was as if the cover had been removed: as if Yehovah—our Gods—Yehovah wasn’t there. Now, the opposite is occurring; Israel is doing what is right, which invites Yehovah back as Israel’s cover.

4. Why must the Table be outside to the Divider (and thus, in the Holy chamber and not the Holy of Holies chamber)? This Table is for those on the way to meet with Yeshua/Yehovah in Mount Zion. It has Matzah and incense: a place of food (the entirely righteous Body being represented by the Matzah) and prayer. It has no chairs; it isn’t a place to stay for long.

5. Where is the Menorah if it is straight in front of the Table and upon the piece of the Abode, southward?

I did another drawing that was closer to show it better:

It is quite small compared to all the room in the Abode! (Southward is to the right; thus, the Menorah is to the right of the Table in this picture, and is behind the Table from the opening of the Abode.)

6. What does the Menorah typify? It typifies the seven Spirits of Yehovah described in Isaiah 11:

Isaiah 11:2 And the Spirit of Yehovah will rest upon him—Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, Spirit of Counsel and Valiance, Spirit of Knowledge and Fear of Yehovah!

In listed form, the seven Spirits are:

The Spirit of Yehovah (the central shaft)
The Spirit of Wisdom
The Spirit of Understanding
The Spirit of Counsel
The Spirit of Valiance
The Spirit of Knowledge
The Spirit of the Fear of Yehovah

7. Why must the Menorah be placed directly in front of that Table? The Spirits of Yehovah will give light (and thus Truth) to those who come to that Table, who come to the Matzah (typifying the Body of Saints who are unleavened—without sin, and typifying the prayers of those Saints) so that they will see the veil, the Divider that came because of the crushing oppression of both sin and enemies of Israel. That veil—that Divider—pictures Messiah Yeshua’s flesh:

Hebrews 6:18 By two unchangeable things in which [it] is impossible [for] God to lie, we—who fled for refuge to lay hold on the Hope set straight-in-front—will have strong encouragement ¹⁹that we have as both a certain and firm anchor of the soul! And entering into that within the veil (Divider) ²⁰where Yeshua entered for us: a forerunner according to the Order of Melchizedek having become High Priest forever!

Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness for entrance into the Holies by the blood of Yeshua ²⁰that He dedicated for us: a newly made and living way through the veil (Divider)—that is, His flesh, ²¹and a Great Priest over the House of God, ²²we shall approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, the hearts having been sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and the Body having been washed with pure water! ²³We shall grasp the confession of the Hope unwavering! For He is faithful who promised! ²⁴And we shall consider one another for provoking to love and to good works—²⁵not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together even as the custom is with some, but exhorting, and by so much more as ye see the Day drawing near!

Thus, the Menorah must be placed in front of that Table in order to give light to those who will go to and through that Divider, Yeshua’s flesh, in order to approach Yehovah in the only right way: by saving the lives of others and bringing them to Yehovah (just as Yeshua did, but for the everlasting Salvation of those whom He saves).

8. Why must the Table be put upon the north piece? Upon entering into the Abode, the first item to be approached is that Table where Saints must consider one another in order to provoke each other to love and to good works! That is the Table where they will assemble themselves together in order to exhort (warn and prod each other to do right) because the Day of Yehovah has arrived!

XIV. Camouflage (verses 36-37)

Moshe must make camouflage to the opening of the Tent! That camouflage must be blue, purple, and earthworm crimson, and made of twisted byssus. The construction must be of variegation.

Moshe must make five acacia pillars for this camouflage. When he observes these pillars, he must see gold! Their hooks are gold.

Moshe must melt/pour to the pillars five lords of copper!

Questions

1. Why must there be a camouflage to the opening of the Tent? Only those who are willing to receive the love of the Truth will be able to see the way into that Tent in which Salvation has made His Abode. That camouflage looks just like the Divider, which typifies Yeshua’s flesh: His mortal life. Those who come upon that opening who aren’t willing to receive the love of the Truth will look at the opening, but will only see camouflage; no opening will be seen. They will continue on their own ways. Those who come upon that opening who are willing to receive the love of the Truth will see Yeshua: that He came from the heavens, that He was indeed royalty, being the Son of the Father, Yehovah, that He lowered Himself to a human and a low-ranking human so that even strangers of many backgrounds and ‘variegations’ could come to Him, all of them being twisted together into one beautiful cloth.

2. What does five typify? I proposed above that both five and the silver shekel (a coin) were used to show redemption: five shekels. I will now propose that the five pillars that hold up the camouflage typify this: Redemption is the foundation for the camouflage, as if Redemption is offering the otherwise hidden way into the Abode!

3. What do the acacia pillars typify? I previously proposed that acacia typifies persons with great strength and mortality (who have put on immortality, as well as high-speed travel and even necessary chastisement to keep those who travel on the way to Mount Zion in line so that all in the group will live.

If these things are correct, combine them with five pillars (standings) of acacia, not only designating the number of those involved in this, but also showing that redemption is the only way into the Abode!

4. If the pillars of acacia are gold when observed, what does this show? This again shows that those persons whom the pillars will represent are mortals who have put on immortality, and when viewing them, what is seen is the gold that doesn’t fail: the love they show. (That form of love will be very tough!)

5. Why are their hooks made of gold? The connections between the pillars and the camouflage are incorruptible! The connections between those persons who are founded on redemption and the camouflage, Messiah’s flesh, can never be corrupted; it is permanent! (Again, I am thinking that this gold also typifies Biblical love.)

6. What does copper typify? It typifies justice/judgment, which often includes wrath. Yet, justice sometimes isn’t wrath; it can be a true friend to those who first find redemption!

7. Why must these five lords of copper be melted/poured? This shows that the judgment/wrath of Yehovah is about to be poured out on all who don’t flee for refuge through redemption into the Abode!

From the outside of the Abode (and courtyard), copper is most visible: judgment/wrath. Behind that camouflage is redemption; yet, that very redemption has at its base the very judgment and wrath of Yehovah! Therefore, one must start by going through Yeshua’s flesh: His mortal life and sacrifice in order to grasp the redemption that will take the person in through the opening of the Abode!

October 21, 2011July 5, 2017

Exodus 26: Abode, Curtains, Loops and Cuttings

The Abode, Curtains, Loops and Cuttings

Background and printed text: Exodus 26

⁶And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold. And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the curtains, a woman unto her sister, via clasps. And the Abode will be one!

¹⁴And thou shalt make a blanket-covering to the Tent: skins of red rams and a blanket-covering of skins of takhashes from above.

³⁰And thou shalt make-stand the Abode according-to his justice that thou wast shown in the mountain!

And thou shalt bring the Box of the Testimonies to there from inside to the divider. And the divider shall separate to you between the Holy and between Holy of the Holies! ³⁴And thou shalt give the cover upon the Box of the Testimonies in Holy of the Holies. ³⁵And thou shalt put the Table from outside to the divider, and the Menorah straight-in-front-of the Table upon the piece of the Abode southward. And thou shalt give the Table upon the north piece.

I. The Abode and its Curtains (verses 1-3)

The colors of this byssus must include blue, purple, and earthworm crimson. These are used to pattern Crooveem, Cherubim, the work of a thinker!

One curtain’s length is 28 forearms (cubits).

Its breadth is 4 forearms.

All the curtains have the same measure as the one curtain.

Five of the ten curtains are friends, connected so that a woman is connected unto her sister curtain.

The same is true of the other five curtains.

Questions

1. What is an abode?

2. What is this Abode?

3. How can an abode be made of just curtains?

4. Why must there be ten curtains?

5. What is byssus?

6. What is twisted byssus?

7. What does byssus typify?

8. What does blue typify?

9. What does purple typify?

10. What is earthworm crimson, and what does it typify?

11. What are crooveem?

12. Identify them in, “Thou shalt make them Crooveem…”:

13. How will these objects be made cherubim?

14. Why must they be the work of a thinker? What does that mean?

15. If the length of one curtain is 28 cubits, what does the number 28 typify?

16. Why is this the length of the curtain?

17. Why is the length of 28 via a forearm? What does the forearm typify?

18. What does the breadth typify, and why is it 4 via a forearm?

19. What does a curtain typify?

20. Why must all the curtains be one measure if the types proposed above are true?

21. If five of the curtains will be friends, as a woman unto her sister, what does this indicate?

II. Loops (verses 4-5)

Yehovah commanded Moshe to make loops of blue. These loops must be connected upon the lip of the one curtain from the edge, and this connection must be via a friend.

The same procedure is established: Moshe must make the same via the lip of the edgemost curtain via the second friendship.

Moshe must make 50 loops by means of the one curtain. He must also make 50 loops by means of an edge of the curtain that is by means of friendship of the second curtain.

The loops are receiving! They receive, a woman unto her sister!

Questions

1. What is a loop, and what does it typify?

2. What does blue typify?

3. What is the lip of a curtain?

4. Who is this friend by which the loops will be made?

5. The text states, “thou shalt make via the lip of the edgemost curtain, via the second friendship.” It doesn’t state what must be made. So, what must be made?

6. Why must the loops be made from the curtain itself?

7. What is this second friendship, and what does it portray?

8. What is “friendship of the second”?

9. The text states, “The loops are receiving, a woman unto her sister.” What does this mean?

III. Clasps (verse 6)

Moshe must make 50 clasps out of gold.

The curtains must be ‘friendshipped’ together, a woman unto her sister, by means of the clasps. Once this is done, the Abode will be one!

Questions

1. What are these clasps?

2. Why must the clasps be gold?

3. What does “And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the curtains, a woman unto her sister, via clasps” mean?

4. The declaration, “And the Abode will be one!” tells about what event?

IV. Goat Curtains (verses 7-9)

Next, Moshe must make curtains using goats; these curtains are to the Tent that is upon (above) the Abode. The number of goat curtains is eleven.

The length of the one curtain is 30 forearms (cubits), and the breadth is 4 forearms (cubits).

The eleven curtains must all be the same measure as the one curtain.

Five of the curtains are ‘friendshipped’ together alone, and six of the curtains are ‘friendshipped’ together alone.

Moshe must double the sixth curtain unto the ‘circumcision’ (the very frontmost) of the faces of the Tent!

Questions

1. What does a goat typify?

2. If the above answer is true, what does ‘curtains of goats’ typify?

3. What is a curtain made of goats?

4. What is so important about the curtains of goats being made into a tent that is upon the Abode?

5. Does eleven typify anything?

6. Does the number 30 represent a type?

7. Why is 30 the length of the curtain?

8. Why is the length of 30 via a forearm? What does the forearm typify?

9. What does the breadth typify, and why is it 4 via a forearm?

10. What does “The one curtain is one measure to eleven curtains” mean?

11. Again, what does this friendshipping involve?

12. How must they be connected together?

13. Does the number 6 carry a type?

14. Does the number 5 carry a type?

15. What is typified if the sixth curtain is doubled?

16. What does this Tent typify?

17. What are the faces of the Tent?

V. Loops and Friendship (verses 10-11)

Moshe next must make 50 loops. Those loops must be placed upon the lip of the one edgemost curtain by means of ‘friendshipping’ them.

He must make another 50 loops upon the lip of the second ‘friendshipping’ curtain.

Next, He must make 50 clasps of copper!

Moshe must bring the clasps by means of the loops! In this way, he will ‘friendship’ the Tent; and the Tent, like the Abode, will be one!

Questions

1. Which lip of which edgemost curtain must be used to make the loops?

2. How will this ‘friendshipping’ be accomplished?

3. Why must the clasps be made of copper?

4. What does “And thou shalt bring the clasps via loops” tell the reader?

5. Explain the statement and the type found in the command, “And thou shalt ‘friendship’ the Tent”:

6. The text above (verse 6) stated, “And the Abode will be one!” This text (verse 11) states, “And he (the Tent) shall be one!” Why do both say the same thing? What does this show?

VI. Diffusion and Excess (verses 12-13)

Questions

1. Explain this spread/diffusion:

2. What is the excess, and what does it typify?

3. What is my After of the Abode?

4. Why must the excess be spread upon this After if the identification above is correct?

6. What does “Thou shalt spread/diffuse half of the excess curtain upon my After of the Abode” typify?

7. What will be the location of the final abode of the Messiah of Israel on this planet?

8. What type ‘picture’ does “The Tent will be spread/diffused upon sides of the Abode from this and from this to blanket-cover him” give?

VII. Blanket-Covering (verse 14)

Moshe must make a blanket-covering to the Tent itself. This must be made of skins of red rams. Another blanket-covering must be made of the skins of takhashes from above the red-ram-skin covering.

Questions

1. What do skins of a red ram typify?

2. Why is this described as a blanket-covering?

3. What are takhashes?

4. What do takhashes typify?

5. Why are these two groups (covered by the descriptions of “skins of red rams and a blanket-covering of skins of takhashes” mentioned together?

6. Why must these blanket-coverings be made from above?

VIII. Cuttings (verses 15-18)

Moshe next must make wood cuttings (logs) to the Abode. They must be made from standing acacia trees.

The length of one cutting is 10 forearms (cubits).

The breadth of one cutting is 1 and ½ forearms.

There are two hands to one cutting. Those hands are connecting, a woman unto her sister.

Established, Moshe shall make all the cuttings of the Abode the same way.

There will be 20 cuttings to the Abode. One cutting goes to a corner southward and to the right.

Questions

1. What are these cuttings?

2. How tall are these acacia logs?

3. How broad are these acacia logs?

4. How much would an acacia log of this size weigh?

5. Why did Yehovah desire them to be so big?

6. What does acacia typify?

7. The text describes two hands to each cutting. What are these hands, and what is their purpose?

8. What does “they are connecting, a woman unto her sister” tell the reader?

9. What does “Established, thou shalt make to all cuttings of the Abode” mean?

10. How many of these cuttings will there be?

11. Why did Yehovah insist upon this structure being designed and made according to directions of east, west, south, north? Couldn’t it have been set up facing any direction?

IX. Lords of Silver and Twins (verses 19-25)

Next, Moshe must make six cuttings to the sides of the Abode toward the sea (westward).

Questions

1. What is a lord of silver?

2. Why must there be forty lords of silver?

3. What does twenty typify?

4. The text next describes the cutting. What does this cutting typify?

5. Why are two lords under the one cutting?

6. Why are these silver lords under one cutting to two of his hands?

7. What does the wording, “two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands and two lords under the one cutting to two of his hands” show?

8. Why is the Abode divided up into two pieces?

9. What does the Abode typify?

10. What is the north extremity?

11. Why will the twenty cuttings in the north also have forty lords of silver?

12. What is the purpose of six cuttings (parts of standing Acacia trees) being made to the sides of the Abode toward the sea (and what sea is this)?

13. What are these cut-outs?

14. What does “they shall be their twin from below” mean?

15. Explain, “And they shall be unified perfect-[ones] by his head…”

16. The next text refers to them as being unified “unto the one sunk-impression.” What is a sunk-impression?

17. What does a sunk-impression typify?

18. How will they be unified unto the one sunk-impression?

19. What does “He will be established to two of them” mean?

20. What does “They shall be to two of the cut-outs” mean?

21. Why is “And eight cuttings shall be” so important?

22. What information can the reader obtain by learning that their lords are silver?

23. Does the number sixteen typify anything?

24. What does “two lords are under the one cutting and two lords are under the one cutting” mean?

X. The Acacia Bar (verses 26-29)

The middle bar in the midst of the cuttings is fleeing from the edge unto the edge!

Moshe shall observe the cuttings: gold! He must make their sunk impressions gold; they are houses to their bar!

Moshe shall observe their bar; it is gold!

Questions

1. Who is their in, “thou shalt make their bar trees of acacia”?

2. Why is bar singular when the text describes five in one part, five in another part, and five on another side?

3. What does this bar typify?

4. Propose an arrangement of these bars so that what the text describes is in the pictures:

5. Why must the middle bar flee from the edge unto the edge?

6. Why will the cuttings be observed as gold?

7. Why must their sunk-impressions also be lined with gold all the way through?

8. Why does the text say, “Houses to their bar”?

9. What might be an image of this sunk-impression?

10. Why must the bar be observed as gold?

XI. Standing Abode (verse 30)

Moshe must cause the Abode to stand according to the Abode’s justice that Moshe was shown in Mount Sinai.

Questions

1. Yehovah commanded Moshe to make the Abode stand according to his justice. What does this mean?

XII. Divider and Crooveem (verses 31-33)

Yehovah next commanded Moshe to make a divider using blue, purple and earthworm crimson. The divider must be made of twisted byssus, and it must be a making of thought! Moshe must make her crooveem (cherubim).

Moshe must give her upon four pillars of acacia; when anyone observes, the person will see gold.

Their hooks are gold upon four lords of silver!

Moshe must give the divider under the clasps.

Questions

1. What is the purpose of this divider?

2. What do blue, purple, and earthworm crimson typify?

3. What does this divider typify (besides being what it obviously is: a divider)?

4. What does byssus typify?

5. Why does the text state that this divider must be made, and that it is a making of thought?

6. Why must this divider be made cherubim? What does that mean?

7. Why must she be given upon acacia?

8. Why must there be four pillars?

9. Why will the pillars appear gold?

10. What do these hooks typify?

11. Why are they upon four lords of silver instead of eight?

12. Why must the divider be under the clasps?

XIII. Holy of Holies (verses 33-35)

Moshe next must bring the Box of the Testimonies to there, from inside, and to the divider. That divider will separate to the Israelis between the Holy and between the Holy of the Holies!

Moshe must give the divider upon the Box of the Testimonies in (or via) Holy of Holies.

Moshe next must put the Table from outside to the divider.

The Menorah must be straight in front of the Table upon the piece of the Abode, southward.

Moshe must give the Table upon the north piece of the Abode.

Questions

1. Why must the Box of the Testimonies be brought specifically from inside to the divider?

2. Why will the divider separate to you (whoever they are) between the Holy and the Holy of the Holies?

3. Why must ‘thou’ (whoever he is) give the cover upon the Box of the Testimonies in Holy of the Holies at this time?

4. Why must the Table be outside to the divider (and thus, in the Holy chamber and not the Holy of Holies chamber)?

5. Where is the Menorah if it is straight in front of the Table and upon the piece of the Abode, southward?

6. What does the Menorah typify?

7. Why must the Menorah be placed directly in front of that Table?

8. Why must the Table be put upon the north piece?

XIV. Camouflage (verses 36-37)

Moshe must make camouflage to the opening of the Tent! That camouflage must be blue, purple, and earthworm crimson, and made of twisted byssus. The construction must be of variegation.

Moshe must make five acacia pillars for this camouflage. When he observes these pillars, he must see gold! Their hooks are gold.

Moshe must melt/pour to the pillars five lords of copper!

Questions

1. Why must there be a camouflage to the opening of the Tent?

2. What does five typify?

3. What do the acacia pillars typify?

4. If the pillars of acacia are gold when observed, what does this show?

5. Why are their hooks made of gold?

6. What does copper typify?

7. Why must these five lords of copper be melted/poured?

October 5, 2011March 29, 2018

Apparent Conflicts in Matthew 1

(Resolved by Angela Reeves)

Introduction

For several months, I was puzzled about some apparent conflicts concerning the Matthew 1 genealogy that extends from Abraham to Messiah. One major question I had was concerning the omission from this list of four kings of Judah, although they are clearly biologically in this line.

Continue reading “Apparent Conflicts in Matthew 1”

September 8, 2011July 5, 2017

Exodus 25 Box Table Light QA

Box, Table and Light

With Questions and Proposed Answers

Background and printed text: Exodus 25

Exodus 25:1 And Yehovah spoke unto Moshe to say, ² “Speak unto the children of Israel. And they took an uplifting to me. Ye shall take my uplifting from with every man whose heart will prod him. ³And this is the uplifting that ye shall take from with them: gold and silver and copper ⁴and shell-fish-cerulean-purple and purple and two earthworms and byssus and goats ⁵and skins of red rams and skins of seals/badgers and the trees of acacia, ⁶oil for the light-emanator, spices for the oil of the anointing and for the incense of the sweet-things, ⁷stones of the onyx and stones of the fillings for the Girding and for the Adornment.

⁸ “And make-ye a sanctuary to me. And I will abide in your midst. ⁹According to all that I am showing thee, the building of the abiding-place and the building of all of his utensils, and established, ye shall do.

¹⁰ “And ye shall make a trees-of-acacia collection-box. Two forearms and a half is his length and a forearm and a half is his breadth and a forearm and a half is his standing. ¹¹And thou shalt observe him. Ye shall observe pure gold from within and from without.

“And thou shalt make upon him a gold wreathed-work around.

¹² “And thou shalt pour out to him four sunk-impressions of gold. And thou shalt give upon four of his impellings, and two sunk-impressions upon his one side and two sunk-impressions upon his second side.

¹³ “And thou shalt make members of trees of acacia. And thou shalt observe them: gold. ¹⁴And thou shalt bring the members via/into the sunk-impressions upon the sides of the collection-box to carry the collection-box via them. ¹⁵The members shall be via/into the sunk-impressions of the collection-box! They shall not depart from him!

¹⁶ “And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box.

¹⁷ “And thou shalt make a pure gold cover: two forearms and a half her length and a forearm and a half her breadth. ¹⁸And thou shalt make two Crooveem. Thou shalt make them gold, hard-turned-work from the two edges of the cover. ¹⁹And make one Croov from the edge from this and one Croov from the edge from this. Ye shall make the Crooveem from the cover upon two of his edges. ²⁰And the Crooveem shall be spreaders of wings to an ascension interweaving via their wings upon the cover. And their faces are a man unto his brother. Faces of the crooveem shall be unto the cover.

²¹ “And thou shalt give the cover upon the collection-box from above. And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box. ²²And I will make known to thee there. And I will speak with thee all that I will command thee unto the children of Israel from upon the cover from between two of the Crooveem that are upon the collection-box of the testimonies!

²³ “And thou shalt make a table the trees of acacia: two forearms his length and a forearm his breadth and a forearm and a half his standing. ²⁴And thou shalt observe him: pure gold. And thou shalt make to him a wreathed-work of gold around. ²⁵And thou shalt make to him a handbreadth enclosure around. And thou shalt make a wreathed-work of gold to his enclosure around.

²⁶ “And thou shalt make to him four sunk-impressions of gold. And thou shalt give the sunk-impressions upon four of the corners that are to four of his feet. ²⁷The sunk-impressions shall be to the communion [union] of the enclosure to houses to the members to carry the table.

²⁸ “And thou shalt make the members trees of acacia. And thou shalt observe them: gold. And he shall carry the table via them.

²⁹ “And thou shalt make his deep-bowls and his palm-of-the-hand-spatulas and his stripped-cups and his innocence-bowls that he will pour via them. Thou shalt make them pure gold.

³⁰ “And thou shalt continually give bread of faces upon the table to my faces!

³¹ “And thou shalt make a pure gold light-emanator. The light-emanator shall be made hard-turned-work. Her thigh and her acquisition-reed, her pitchers, her hand-guides and her buddings-forth shall be from her!

³² “And six acquisition-reeds are exiting from her sides: three acquisition-reeds of the light-emanator from her one side and three acquisition-reeds of the light-emanator from her second side.

³³ “Three watching pitchers are in her one acquisition-reed, a hand-guide and a budding-forth, and three watching pitchers are in her one acquisition-reed, a hand-guide and a budding-forth established to six of the acquisition-reeds exiting from the light emanator.

³⁴ “And four watching pitchers, her hand-guides and her buddings-forth are in the light emanator. ³⁵And a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-reeds from her, and a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-reeds from her, and a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-reeds from her to six of the acquisition reeds exiting from the light emanator. ³⁶Their hand-guides and their acquisition-reeds shall be from her. All of her is one pure gold hard-turned-work.

³⁷ “And thou shalt make her lamps: seven. And he shall make-ascend her lamps. And they shall lighten upon-across her faces.

³⁸ “And her takers and her seizers are of pure gold. ³⁹He shall make her a pure gold orb with all these utensils.

⁴⁰ “And see and make via their building that thou art seeing in the mountain!”

I. Items for the Uplifting (verses 1-7)

Yehovah spoke unto Moshe so that Moshe would tell these things to the children of Israel. His first directive was, “Speak unto the children of Israel.” He then gave the result of that communication: “And they took an uplifting to me.” (This is like an adult receiving from the hands of a child.)

Yehovah didn’t desire that just everyone would give: “Ye shall take my uplifting from with every man whose heart will prod him.”

He then gave the contents of that uplifting: “And this is the uplifting that ye shall take from with them: gold and silver and copper and shell-fish-cerulean-purple and purple and two earthworms and byssus and goats and skins of red rams and skins of seals/badgers and the trees of acacia, oil for the light-emanator, spices for the oil of the anointing and for the incense of the sweet-things, stones of the onyx and stones of the fillings for the Girding and for the Adornment.”

Questions

1. Why did Yehovah speak unto Moshe so that he would speak unto the children of Israel (instead of speaking straight to them)? The Israelis already indicated that they desired Moshe to speak to them instead of Yehovah! They became terrified at His voice!

2. What is an uplifting? This is a ‘childism’ in the Bible: something to which a child can relate. When a young child desires to give something to an adult (or anyone older than the child), the child will lift the item up to the person. This shows total willingness to give the item.

3. What does “whose heart will prod him” mean? This means that the person’s mind (called the heart in most texts of the Bible) will push the person to do something (to give, in this case). The person has a real desire to give.

4. Every item typifies something, and every material typifies something. What does gold typify? Its most obvious property is that is doesn’t rust; in scientific terms, it doesn’t naturally oxidize. When metals oxidize, they can easily wear away, and become corrupted—that is, ruined, of no use, rotted. Thus, gold typifies incorruption: the inability to rot and deteriorate. This will be very important as we continue with the rest of the items.

5. What does silver typify? I figured this out by reading that silver was used when something was being redeemed for a price. Something has been redeemed if a price has been paid for its release from some type of captivity.

(There is another word for redeem that indicates taking something or someone from captivity by force. That isn’t used here.

6. What does copper typify? It typifies justice; it also typifies the result of justice if a person is condemned! Thus, it will also connect with wrath (extremely strong anger)!

7. What does shell-fish-cerulean-purple typify? It typifies completion (since the word itself is rooted in a word meaning to finish).

8. What does purple typify? From the word argemon, ‘arag’ means to weave, braid. The Greek word arachnid comes from this, weaving its web. Ragam means to heap, pile up, accumulate. It also indicates to throw, and is used to mean to translate (as in, to interpret other languages on the fly). Yet, it again has one other significance: to throw colours; to paint.

Determining typology is a matter of considering what words and their pictures mean. Here is a word that means, “I will translate,” that also gives the idea of weaving together, forming a web to catch, accumulating, translating, collecting colours. I propose, then, that this describes those groups that will be formed during the Tribulation, and that will be made of folks from various cultures and colours with various languages who are accumulated and whose speech Yehovah will translate.

9. What do two earthworms typify? This is one of the lowliest creatures that produces a red blood substance. It is an almost powerless (feeble) creature, and despised; yet, it goes through soil with great power.

Two earthworms typify to beings who fit the above description.

10. What is byssus, and what does it typify? Byssus is a fine linen cloth. Linen is made from flax, a plant that produces fibers that can be used for thread.

Byssus typifies the righteousness of Saints.

11. What does a goat typify? It typifies strength. Now, goats don’t have much strength, but they use what they have! Thus, they typify a little strength!

12. What do skins of red rams typify? Ram typifies might (which is greater than the strength shown by a goat; rams are much larger and more powerful). Skin typifies being awakened, aroused, be brought to excitement and action. Red is the same spelling as Adam. Put together, and looking at the Hebrew expression, it means the awakening of their might from Adams—thatis, from men of various races and peoples.

13. What do seals/badgers typify? It seems that identification of this animal has been temporarily lost. (It can be found if writing and a drawing are found together.) That doesn’t mean that one cannot find its type. The word takhash is the right form to mean, thou wilt hasten, thou wilt flee, along with the idea of great passion (intensity of desire). If skin typifies being awakened, aroused, be brought to excitement and action, the two together indicate being awakened and excited to action to hasten and to flee.

14. What do trees typify? They are the opposite of gold: they typify the ability to rot, decay; therefore trees picture mortality and corruptibility.

Also, a tree is a picture of a stable, well-rooted person (distinct from a briar that can be ‘whacked’ down with ease) who is able to give shade and bear fruit.

15. What do trees of acacia typify? The word for acacia in Hebrew, shōt, means to fly at high speeds. It describes the end of a whip or of a flagellum (a microscopic whip of a one-celled creature that uses its whip to swim). (I propose that the branches of the acacia are very good for making a scourge/a whip!)

If this is correct, trees of acacia typify stable, potentially fruit-bearing mortals (humans who could be killed) who will be able to travel at very high speeds (and, if the whip enters in, will be quick and strong to chastise those who don’t cooperate!). That travel, if this is correct, will occur during the Tribulation as groups of these folks go toward Mount Zion during a time when travel will be the most dangerous it has ever been, and when there are more obstacles to travel than there has ever been. These folks will be able to continue traveling as if there are no obstacles and few dangers.

16. What does oil typify? It is typical of fatness (not the Holy Spirit)—what gives individuals or groups the wherewithal to continue to do what is right and beneficial when no external resources are available. That extra provides all that is necessary and more than what is necessary to do what is right for others.

17. What is a light emanator? It is an object that emanates light (that is, it gives off light; it is a source of light). The word in Hebrew means ‘light giver-offer;’ I would rather use a better word: emanator.

18. What do spices typify? They give a sweet fragrance. Yehovah appreciates when behaviours are very good; He can smell works that are excellent and in the fear of Yehovah, and works that are evil!

These spices will be used for the oil of the anointing and for the incense of the sweet things so that their fragrances will be so good!

19. What does anointing typify, and how is it Biblically done? To anoint is to identify (usually by pouring oil over the head) one as determined and fully equipped for a particular work/function (whether that work or function will be for good or for harm). The oil pouring is a picture. Some shepherds put oil over the heads and in the ears of Sheep and goats to minimize bug problems so that the sheep and goats can graze with fewer distractions and irritations, so that they can produce more wool and milk. A person who is anointed will also be less distracted by external forces in the assigned field of service (or the doing of destruction) than would normally be the case.

20. What is incense? It used to be made from tree or bush resins (the liquid that flows from a cut tree or bush), and it was placed on hot coals to give a good-smelling smoke. Incense can now be made of many different things. Incense in the Bible can typify the prayers of Saints (and folks who aren’t yet Saints, but who desire to have the power to do what is right, especially on the behalf of others).

21. What is an onyx stone? Hebrew is a curious language. The very same spelling can sometimes be rendered with a very different meaning. This is how types can be found. The words avney-shoham in Hebrew that mean stones of an onyx can also be read as, “My stone is their lamb.” This speaks of the Lamb of God, the Passover Lamb, who is also the stone that the builders rejected:

Psalm 118:22 “The stone the builders rejected is become the head stone of the corner! ²³This is Yehovah’s doing! It is marvellous in our eyes!”

Thus, this statement tells careful and observant readers that Yehovah’s stone is the Lamb of the Israelis, the Lamb Who takes away the sin of the world.

22. What is a filling? It is a setting in these texts: a place where precious stones are set and secured (like what one normally sees in a necklace and earrings).

23. What is a Girding? It is a wrap-around piece of cloth that we will consider when we come to it.

24. What is an Adornment? It is something that helps something else look fancy, dressed up, special, nice, etc. We will consider this when we come to it.

II. The Sanctuary (verses 8-9)

Yehovah next told the Israelis, “And make-ye a sanctuary to me.” He told them why: “And I will abide in your midst.”

His directions were very specific: “According to all that I am showing thee, the building of the abiding-place and the building of all of his utensils, and established, ye shall do.”

Questions

1. What is a sanctuary in the Bible? It is a place that is owned. In this case, Yehovah will be the owner.

The word sanctuary in English normally refers to a place of safety; a place of refuge (from danger or trouble). This is not how it is used in the Bible. Instead, it is a place that is owned.

2. What will Yehovah do with this sanctuary? He will abide there in the midst of the Israelis.

3. What does abide mean, and how does it differ from dwelling in a place or living in a place? While abide, dwell and living in are similar, the Bible makes distinctions.

To abide is to spend time at a particular place. It can be for a short period of time, or it can be for a long period of time. It includes both day and night periods of time, and therefore can be one’s residence, but normally it will be more like the city or village in which a person will stay for an entire period of time.

To dwell in a place normally indicates a longer period of time, and it usually indicates the place where a person spends the night. It is more like a residence. To dwell on something in English is to remain there until one is either satisfied or has given up.

To live in a place again shows one’s residence: where one normally spends nights and does morning preparations.

In Yehovah’s case, He will abide in this sanctuary no matter where the Israelis travel and move the sanctuary. He will be there night and day.

4. If Yehovah is everywhere, why does He need or want to abide in the midst of the Israelis? From the beginning, Yehovah desired to abide in the midst of a group—not just any group, but a group that feared Him and consistently did what was right. He chose Israel to be that group. (Because He is everywhere, He can abide in the midst of another group at the same time!) He knew that Israel will eventually become all righteous, and will stay that way as long as the Earth lasts.

At this time in the Bible, however, Israel is a group of idolatrous pagans with many different faiths and gods. Yet, Yehovah is setting the stage for the time when Israel fears Him in righteousness with full faith in Him and in Him alone. That way, He can do excellent things for Israel and for all others who come to fear the Gods of Israel no matter from what race they come; that way, the Israelis can go out and serve the other races as faithful slaves to teach them about Yehovah, about righteousness, justice, grace, and every good thing: to teach them the Speeches of Yehovah and His ways.

5. What is Yehovah stating when He says, “According to all that I am showing thee, the building of the abiding-place and the building of all of his utensils, and established, ye shall do”? He is telling Moshe to make sure to do/make the construction of the abiding place and the construction of every utensil (every item that serves a useful purpose: every tool) exactly according to the way that Yehovah is showing Moshe. Not one item is to vary in any way from what Moshe is seeing. Everything must be exactly perfect.

III. The Collection Box (verses 10-11)

Yehovah told them what next to make: “And ye shall make a trees-of-acacia collection-box.” He gave the dimensions: “Two forearms and a half is his length and a forearm and a half is his breadth and a forearm and a half is his standing.”

He then told him [who?] what to do with it: “And thou shalt observe him.” Then switching to the Israelis, He said, “Ye shall observe pure gold from within and from without.”

Questions

1. What is a collection box? It is a box in which items are collected and stored.

2. What is the purpose of this collection box? It will house special items that typify very important things.

3. Why does it have to be made of trees of acacia? I proposed that trees of acacia typify stable, potentially fruit-bearing mortals (humans who could be killed) who will be able to travel at very high speeds (and, if the whip enters in, will be quick and strong to chastise those who don’t cooperate!). If this is correct, a collection box made of what this typifies will have within it certain items to guard: items that will save lives.

4. How long is a forearm? It is approximately 18 inches (1 ½ feet).

5. How long is two forearms and a half? This would be 18 inches + 18 inches + 9 inches, or 45 inches: a little under 4 feet.

6. How long is a forearm and a half? It is 27 inches, or a little over two feet.

7. Why did Yehovah choose these particular dimensions? Some of the types will be difficult to figure; they will take much thought.

The same word used for forearm also means mother, and refers to a mother with fondness: Ima (pronounced eemah).

The same word used for half means my arrow.

The Hebrew text appears to be saying, “Two mothers: and my arrow is his length! And a mother: and my arrow is his breadth! And a mother: and my arrow is his standing!” It is as if all for which the box stands will stand for one mother, since Yehovah’s arrow will be there to maintain his standing. (I will later propose that the box typifies Israel during the Tribulation.) It is as if saving the life of each mother in Israel will be what will keep all Israel alive. The same will be true of two mothers of Israel traveling together. This is all a proposal; I have much more certainty in the other types.

8. Why is the word standing used instead of height? Yehovah designed the language and these statements for types. The word height would only indicate how high it was; the word standing speaks of an event that will occur in which a group will stand even the faces of terrible opponents, and this weak and small group will not fall!

9. The word observe isn’t in any translation anywhere. Why is it in this translation instead of the word overlay, or something like that? Again, Yehovah designed the language and the statements to indicate types. The word normally rendered overlay is rooted in the verb to observe, to look very closely. Thus, I put what the text actually says, and not what translators and scholars have thought that it meant.

10. Who is thou in, “And thou shalt observe him,” who is him, and what is the benefit of observing him? Thou is either Moshe or Israel; the practical answer is Israel, since the observation will lead to the Salvation of many in Israel. Him refers to the collection-box. The timing is much later than our time; it is during the Tribulation. Israel will observe what this box typifies, though the Israelis will likely not think of this until much later. They will then observe pure gold from within and without what the box typifies.

11. What does this collection box typify? I will give this answer away now, though it would be much better if the reader were to figure this out. However, figuring it out will require reading about the pure gold cover with the cherubs, and figuring out the purpose of that lid! Since that would require much thought, and not many are willing to give the thought necessary, I will talk about this collection box.

The collection-box is made of wood (which typifies corruption) and pure gold (the gold typifying incorruptibility and therefore, immortality; the pure part of the gold shows that it is absolutely crystal-glass-clear). Thus, the box shows corruption having put on incorruption. This describes Saints.

Now, this box will hold items given to Israel. The cover will be over the box; the box will be carried. This box typifies Israel! (There. I have given the type away.) I will discuss this much more as more of the types of the items described are discussed.

12. Does pure gold exist today anywhere on earth? I expect that it does, though one who finds it wouldn’t know that it is gold (the metal) at all. Gold is normally yellow, and it isn’t see-through unless it is extremely thin foil. Even then, it isn’t clear. The yellow seems to be from polluting sulfur that cannot be removed by normal means today. (Folks could do things with metals in the past that they cannot seem to be able to presently do. Perhaps they will discover how to do these things in the not-too-distant future.) Were one in possession of a piece of pure, clear gold today, it wouldn’t be worth merely $1,500 an ounce; it would be worth millions per ounce.

IV. Gold Wreathed Work (verse 11)

Yehovah next told him, “And thou shalt make upon him a gold wreathed-work around.”

Questions

1. What is wreathed work? It is like the construction of a wreath, which is made by entertwining a vine or something like a vine (flexible branches, say,) with another vine or branch, or with other vines, branches, etc. The idea is to make a structure that shows interweaving (weaving things together).

The word for wreathed work is also the Hebrew word for a stranger, a foreigner to faith (and thus, a foreign follower of false gods, being a foreigner because of being from other races), a non-Israeli sinner.

Look at this text:

Ephesians 2:11 Remember that ye, once the races in the flesh—who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh made by hand—¹²that ye were at that time apart from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the Covenants of promise, not having hope and without God in the world, ¹³but now in Messiah Yeshua, ye who once were afar off are become near by the blood of the Messiah! ¹⁴For He is our peace Who made both one! And He broke down the middle wall of the fence—¹⁵having annulled the enmity via His flesh, the teaching of commandments in decrees, in order that He will create the two into one new man via Himself, making peace! ¹⁶And He will reconcile both to God in one Body through the cross, having slain the enmity by it! ¹⁷And having come, He announced the beneficial-proclamation: peace to you who are afar off and to those near! ¹⁸For we both have access to the Father via one Spirit through Him! ¹⁹So, then, ye are no longer strangers and sojourners, but-rather fellow citizens of the Saints and of the household of God, ²⁰being built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Messiah Yeshua Himself being the cornerstone ²¹in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy Temple in Yehovah ²²in whom ye are also being built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit!

I underlined certain words that I saw connected this text with the text we are considering in Exodus!

2. What does this wreathed work typify? I propose that it typifies non-Israeli strangers who are followers of false gods and who have pagan practices who become completely connected to Israel by saving lives of Israelis (and others) during the Tribulation. Some will take Israeli children and babies, some will take very old Israelis, some will take Israelis who cannot walk or who are sick—but all will include at least one Israeli in their works of heroism during the Tribulation to bring them to Mount Zion. They will become totally intertwined with Israel by this means, and will be part of those who are incorruptible (what gold typifies), being like a border of gold around the cover of Israel!

V. Sunk Impressions for the Box (verse 12)

Yehovah taught them to form shapes that will teach them about things to come: “And thou shalt pour out to him four sunk-impressions of gold. And thou shalt give upon four of his impellings, and two sunk-impressions upon his one side and two sunk-impressions upon his second side.”

Questions

1. What is a sunk impression? When I considered the Hebrew word behind this, I realized that the word indicated two things at the same time: something sunk into something else (that is, it is as if it has been pressed into place deep into something else), and something impressed or pushed down until its shape is inside something else. Thus, I translated the word as sunk-impression.

2. How does a sunk impression look? I propose that these sunk impressions of gold are made like sockets to fit into holes in the box so that bars (described later) can be pushed into the box. Here is a proposed picture:

These are sunk into the box and made of gold to act as shaft holders for the rods (described later) that go into them.

3. What does a sunk impression typify? There are four of them. Four normally indicates universality—that is, that something is true from all four directions: north, south, east and west.

These four are sunk into the box that is a type of Israel, and therefore are part of the box, while still being separate from the box in make-up. They are impressions in the box, and they are beautiful, always showing their connections to the box and going through the two sides of the box. They leave four holes in the box by which other structures (that will typify other groups) will be able to connect into the box. Since they are gold, they typify incorruptibility. I propose that they typify groups of persons who gave their lives so that others can be connected into the box of Israel—others who will help carry the box!

If these things are right, whatever is made of gold like this will typify either persons who heroically died in faith (and thus, the picture of wood covered with gold, which would be a picture of a living mortal person who has put on incorruption, isn’t used, but just gold since the person is incorruptible, but physically died), or God. These heroic persons left lasting and vital impressions in Israel that remind the Israelis and others of the Messiah.

4. What is an impelling, and what does this typify? The Hebrew word paam normally refers to the beating of a clock (even though they never had clocks that beat when this was written!). It shows the rhythm of time. This word means to thrust, impel, push, beat persistently.

During the Tribulation, there will be a universal impelling of the Israelis and their friends to move from wherever they are to Mount Zion. No matter where they start out, they will all be impelled to go, and many will be internally impelled to aid the Jews, including saving their lives at the risk or loss of their own lives, just like Yeshua did.

5. Why are there two sunk-impressions on one side, and two on the other? One reason is for rods that will be installed, two per side, to carry the box. (I can’t think of another; perhaps you can!)

VI. The Members (verses 13-15)

Yehovah told Moshe, “And thou shalt make members of trees of acacia.” He then told him what to do with those members: “And thou shalt observe them: gold.” (Translations use overlay, referring to the gold; I am giving an alternate rendering.)

Moshe was to now connect these members to the box: “And thou shalt bring the members via/into the sunk-impressions upon the sides of the collection-box to carry the collection-box via them.”

Yehovah explained their vital location: “The members shall be via/into the sunk-impressions of the collection-box! They shall not depart from him!”

Questions

1. What are these members? They are parts that are separate, and yet they are joined to the box. They will be extendable/retractable into the box.

2. What do these members typify? They typify others who will be joined into the box, yet will be separate from the box. (The box typifies Israel; the cover typifies Yehovah.) Thus, these members will typify non-Jewish folks who will be used to carry the box!

3. If Israel observes them, and sees gold, what does this tell? It tells that they will be/become incorruptible; therefore, they will be/become Saints, those who are born of God.

4. The wording, “And thou shalt bring the members via/into the sunk-impressions,” permits two different wordings. Why are two different wordings permissible, and what does each wording indicate? When the Hebrew letter bayt is attached to a noun at the beginning, it can mean via, which means by means of, or it can mean into, which shows a location or a location change. Readers can usually easily tell which meaning needs to be used in texts; one will make sense, and the other won’t make as much sense. There are texts, however, where the reader won’t be able to tell which meaning is the best or right. This is because there are quite a few texts in which both meanings are exactly right! I propose that this is such a text.

One reading, then, is, “And thou shalt bring the members via the sunk-impressions,” showing that those who typify those sunk-impressions will be the very persons whose heroism will directly ‘lead’ to non-members among the races becoming attached to the box that typifies Israel.

The other reading is, “And thou shalt bring the members into the sunk-impressions,” showing that non-members among the races will come into the very place where those who typify the sunk-impressions are already located so that the members and the ‘sunk-impression’ persons will help carry the box that is Israel during the Tribulation.

5. What does, “shalt bring the members … upon the sides of the collection-box” mean and indicate? The Hebrew word that means upon also means next to. (It also means a few other things that wouldn’t make as much sense in this text. For example, it can mean concerning, as in this sentence: “I wrote to you concerning the events we are planning.” Thus, concerning in English can mean about: “I wrote to you about the events we are planning.”) I propose that this text shows that these members must be attached to the box by being placed into the sunk-impressions, and these members are attached inside the box, being attached to the sides of the box.

If this is correct, it indicates that these members are separate from Israel, but are connected totally within Israel. (Their connection will be permanent.) They are thus under the cover of the box and are visible from the cover.

6. What is the purpose of these members? The text explains: they are “to carry the collection-box via them.” That tells two separate things: the members are designed to be handles to carry the collection box, and others use the members to carry the collection box!

7. The text states, “The members shall be via/into the sunk-impressions of the collection-box.” What does this mean? The first wording is, “The members shall be via the sunk-impressions of the collection-box.” That shows how the members will become … members! Those who represent the sunk-impressions in Israel will be the ones by whom these persons represented by the members will become members! Heroism on the part of the ‘sunk-impression’ folks will lead to non-Jewish folks becoming members.

The second wording is, “The members shall be into the sunk-impressions of the collection-box.” Thus, those members will become connected into Israel by their locations being where the sunk-impression folks were in Israel. This will become obvious to all Israel (if I am right).

8. What does “They shall not depart from him” mean? Once those members become connected to Israel by means of the sunk-impression heroes and heroines, they will never depart from Israel for the rest of their lives. That connection will be permanent for the entire Millennium (thousand years during which the Messiah of Israel reigns).

VII. Placement of the Testimonies (verse 16)

Yehovah told Moshe, “And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box.”

Questions

1. What are these testimonies? They are items that will be placed into the box. Each one testifies (that is, gives a statement as if it is a sworn statement of fact) to something that Yehovah considers very important. These items will be listed later, but I will give them now:

Aharon’s dead-stick-rod that buds, producing almond buds, almond flowers, and almond fruit
A gold jar
Manna that is inside the gold jar
Two slates that have the Ten Statements (‘Ten Commandments’) written on them with the finger of Yehovah
Later on, a copy of the first five, and then, the first six scrolls of the Bible: Genesis through Joshua

2. Yehovah stated, “And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box.” Why did Yehovah employ the wording, “give unto,” as if the testimonies became the property of the collection box? That is exactly what will occur! That collection box typifies Israel! The testimonies will be given to Israel! Moshe will be the one entrusted to give those testimonies to Israel.

VIII. Cover and ‘Crooveem’ (verses 17-20)

“And thou shalt make a pure gold cover.” This was the cover for the box. He gave the dimensions: “two forearms and a half her length and a forearm and a half her breadth.”

Yehovah told Moshe, “And thou shalt make two Crooveem.” Crooveem are cherubs; cherubs are angels with a high rank among angels and with great power.

Of what were they to be made? “Thou shalt make them gold, hard-turned-work from the two edges of the cover.” (See questions for what this describes.)

Yehovah then specified from where to make the crooveem: “And make one Croov [one cherub] from the edge from this and one Croov from the edge from this. Ye shall make the Crooveem from the cover upon two of his edges.”

In what pose were the crooveem? “And the Crooveem shall be spreaders of wings to an ascension interweaving via their wings upon the cover.”

Where were they to be facing? “And the faces of the Crooveem will be their faces, a man unto his brother unto the cover.”

Questions

1. If the cover is pure gold, what does that mean? It means that it is clear, like crystal glass!

Revelation 21:21 The street of the city is pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

Since the cover has no wood, it portrays no mortal person (person capable of dying). It instead only portrays immortality. God alone is strictly immortal by nature.

2. Why must this cover be two forearms and a half by a forearm and a half? It must exactly fit the top of the collection-box.

I proposed above that the forearm is also the Hebrew word for mother, and that two forearms can represent two mothers, with the word half in Hebrew also meaning my arrow. If this is at all right, it would read, “Two mothers and my arrow are her length, and a mother and my arrow are her breadth.” I proposed above that these refer to women during the Tribulation who represent all of Israel, since all of Israel will be saved by these women being saved from death.

3. What are crooveem? The word crooveem is plural. It is normally spelled cherubim. The singular form is caroov, and it is normally spelled cherub.

While there are angels that are crooveem, in this text the crooveem are not regular angels; they are Yehovah Himself. Yet, there are two of them. They are made of gold, showing both immortality (the inability to die) and incorruptibility (never rotting, decaying, never being harmed, hurt, sick, etc.).

These ‘angels’ cannot be formed and then connected to the cover; they must be formed while connected to the cover! They must be formed from the two edges of the cover. Thus, whatever the cover is, these crooveem are exactly the same in substance (that is, in the stuff of which they are formed).

4. What do the cover and the two crooveem typify? They are made of one piece of pure gold. The cover itself is over all Israel, since the box typifies Israel. The crooveem have their wings spread over the cover and ascending; the wings are also interwoven over the cover. Thus, the crooveem are in a protective position above the cover and above the box that typifies Israel. The two crooveem are facing each other and the cover.

When I considered what this cover and crooveem typified, I thought of a text:

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hearken, Israel! Yehovah, our Gods, Yehovah is one!

I then knew what this cover and crooveem typified.

One Caroov is Yehovah the Father.

The cover is Yeshua Who is one with the Father.

The other Caroov is Yehovah the Spirit.

The two Carooveem are pictured as angels because the Angel Yehovah is Yehovah, and yet He appears and acts like an angel (a messenger, since the same word that means angel also means messenger).

Yeshua is the Cover because He covers over Israel in so many ways. His blood was shed in order for Him to be the covering for Israel, as well as to remove the sin of Israel.

All of Yehovah is involved in protecting Israel (even though Yehovah’s wrath against Israel at various times has brought Israel nearly to extinction).

5. What is hard-turned-work? When I considered this Hebrew word, I found that it meant both hard and turned work. Thus, I rendered it hard-turned-work. It describes forming something without any shavings by turning it. It is a process that I don’t understand. It wasn’t done by melting the gold and pouring it into forms; it was done by somehow turning the metal to form the shapes as if the metal were clay. Yehovah gave instruction for doing this; two men were instructed on how to do this, and they did it exactly right. They were also able to teach others how to do this.

6. Since the crooveem were made from opposite edges of the cover, what does this show? This shows that Messiah Yeshua, the cover, is both one with Yehovah the Father and Yehovah the Spirit; He is directly connected to both. Yet, He appears separated by shape, but not separated because of the one piece of undivided gold.

7. What does “their faces are a man unto his brother” mean? This means that the crooveem are facing each other; they aren’t facing in some other direction.

8. What does “Faces of the crooveem shall be unto the cover” mean? This means that they are looking at the cover while they are facing each other.

9. Why is the position of their faces so important? This shows that Yehovah, Yeshua, Yehovah are coordinated in all that they are doing while they watch and guard Israel, and while Yeshua covers for all Israel. The plan of God was not broken when Yeshua gave His life to cover Israel! He humbled Himself to become a mortal while He continued to be one substance with Yehovah the Father and Yehovah the Spirit! He thus also became a hero! As a cover, He faced down to the box and up to the two crooveem!

Also, Yehovah the Father and Yehovah the Spirit never turned at any time from Yeshua the Cover. (Thus, Yehovah the Father never “turned His back” on Yeshua as some wrongly suppose.)

IX. The Cover, Contents, and Yehovah (verses 21-22)

Yehovah stated, “And thou shalt give the cover upon the collection-box from above.”

He said what to do with the testimonies: “And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box.”

Yehovah promised where and what He would communicate to Moshe: “And I will make known to thee there. And I will speak with thee all that I will command thee unto the children of Israel from upon the cover from between two of the Crooveem that are upon the collection-box of the testimonies!”

Questions

1. Why is Moshe told to “give the cover upon the collection-box from above”? Moshe is acting in the role of Yehovah the Father. Yehovah the Father gave Yeshua, the cover upon Israel, from above—that is, from the heavens:

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…

John 3:13 No man has ascended up to the heavens except He Who came down from the heavens: the Son of Adam Who is in the heavens!

2. Again, why is “And thou shalt give the testimonies that I will give unto thee unto the collection-box” worded that way? Those testimonies mentioned earlier in this chapter will be given unto Israel, the great collection box of Yehovah, to hold them and show them to the world. (We will discuss the items when we come to them.) Please notice how often the word give is used in these texts.

3. Yehovah stated, “And I will make known to thee there.” What will He make known? He will make known the testimonies, and He will make many other things known to Israel from the cover of that collection box. He will also make Himself known to Israel from that Cover (that is Messiah!).

4. Yehovah stated, “And I will speak with thee all that I will command thee unto the children of Israel from upon the cover from between two of the Crooveem that are upon the collection-box of the testimonies!” What does this show? Since the Cover is between two of the Crooveem, Yehovah will speak with Moshe all that He will command Moshe to tell the children of Israel using Yeshua! This is explained in another text:

Revelation 19:10 The testimony of Yeshua is the spirit of prophecy!

X. The Table (verses 23-25)

“And thou shalt make a table the trees of acacia.” He again gave dimensions: “two forearms his length and a forearm his breadth and a forearm and a half his standing.” He also again said what to do with the table: “two forearms his length and a forearm his breadth and a forearm and a half his standing.”

This table had a particular design around it: “And thou shalt make to him a wreathed-work of gold around.” It also had another structure around it: “And thou shalt make to him a handbreadth enclosure around.” There was then a third structure: “And thou shalt make a wreathed-work of gold to his enclosure around.”

Questions

1. What does a table typify? A table is a place for food and for communication. It is a gathering spot for meals and for making decisions. I propose that a table typifies these things.

This table has no chairs. Thus, it doesn’t typify sitting, giving me the impression that participants at this table are on the move.

If what we proposed above holds, and trees of acacia typify stable, potentially fruit-bearing mortals (humans who could be killed) who will be able to travel at very high speeds, those who typify this table will be ‘gathering spots’ for meals, for decisions and for communication. This table will be made of folks who fulfill the following text:

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of lives! And he who acquires beings is wise!

The measure of these folks will again be seen as two forearms as his length and a forearm his breadth and a forearm and a half his standing. If forearms (in Hebrew also meaning mothers) indicates mothers, there will be two mothers who make up the length, one mother who takes care of the breadth, and a mother and “my arrow,” the standing of the table. (I propose that this shows Yehovah’s protection for the table.)

I don’t see that the table is identified particularly with Israel. I therefore propose that it refers to non-Jewish Saints who will be saving the lives of Israeli and non-Israeli children (see below).

2. What does observing the table to be pure gold indicate? Since wood indicates corruptibility (the ability to rot and decay, and therefore, to die), and gold indicates incorruptibility (showing that beings that are described by this along with wood have been changed from corruption to incorruption, and thus showing that they have been born of God), these who make up this table will be born of God; that will be observable.

3. What does wreathed work of gold typify, and what is this? Whatever is wreathed is intertwined, meaning that it is wrapped together as in orbs to form a bond. Think of a wreath where flowers or vines are set in a orb.

Each orb being made of gold, I propose that it refers to Yehovah Himself as in this text:

Psalm 34:7 Angel Yehovah camped around to His fearers! And He extricated them! [That is, He pulled them out quickly from a deadly situation!]

The wreathed work of gold, if this is correct, shows the work of the Angel Yehovah in all the individual cases of the persons who make up this table. The Angel camped around them!

4. What is this handbreadth enclosure? The Hebrew word for handbreadth has the following acceptations: to extend, spread, trip, take quick little steps; to spread out; to carry on the palms, dandle; to rear children. The word has everything to do with very young children. Even the word dandle pertains to children, since it means to move a baby or child up and down lightly on one’s knee or in one’s arm (from Dictionary.com).

Thus, this table is surrounded and enclosed by little children (Jewish and non-Jewish).

5. What is the purpose of this wreathed work of gold that surrounds this enclosure? If what I proposed above is true, again, the Angel Yehovah is completely surrounding the entire enclosure of children and adults who are on the move toward Mount Zion. This reminds me of the sheepfold in John 10!

XI. The Table’s Sunk Impressions (verses 26-27)

“And thou shalt make to him four sunk-impressions of gold.”

Yehovah told Moshe where to place these: “And thou shalt give the sunk-impressions upon four of the corners that are to four of his feet.”

He told what their purpose was: “The sunk-impressions shall be to the communion [union] of the enclosure to houses to the members to carry the table.”

Questions

1. What are these sunk-impressions, again? There are four of them. Four normally indicates universality—that is, that something is true from all four directions: north, south, east and west.

These four are sunk into the four corners of the Table that is a type of non-Jewish Saints, and therefore are part of those non-Jewish heroic Saints, while still being separate from the Table in make-up. They are impressions that are to four of the Table’s feet, and they are beautiful, always showing their connections to the Table and going through the corners of the Table. They leave four holes in the Table by which other structures (that will typify other groups) will be able to connect into the Table. Since they are gold, they typify incorruptibility. I propose that they typify groups of persons who gave their lives so that others can be connected into the Table of these Saints—others who will help carry the Table!

If these things are right, whatever is made of gold like this will typify either persons who heroically died in faith (and thus, the picture of wood covered with gold, which would be a picture of a living mortal person who has put on incorruption, isn’t used, but just gold since the person is incorruptible, but physically died), or God. These heroic persons left lasting and vital impressions in these Saints that remind these Saints and others of the Messiah.

Now, there is more to these sunk impressions. They “shall be to the communion [union] of the enclosure to houses to the members to carry the table.” (See the next question.)

2. What do these sunk impressions typify?

Since their purpose is “to the union of the enclosure,” they will help keep the enclosure intact—those who are enclosing these children and bringing them safely to Mount Zion.

Since their purpose is to be “to houses to the members to carry the table,” I propose that they will provide shelter (houses) for the groups that make up this table. They will risk (and often give) their lives in the process of this service; yet, Yehovah will make sure that they will always remain connected to this table; therefore, they will be in the resurrection of the dead Saints. (If I am right, they will come to faith before they die.)

3. Who are these members who carry the table? They are akin to the other members that connect into the box: non-Jewish non-saints who will become Saints who are traveling with the Table to carry those who represent the Table.

XII. The Table’s Members (verse 28)

“And thou shalt make the members trees of acacia.” He told what to do with them: “And thou shalt observe them: gold.” He also told their purposes: “And he shall carry the table via them.”

Questions

1. Who is he who will carry the table via the trees of acacia members? This is singular, while the table will be carried by priests (plural). Therefore, this isn’t referring to those priests. I propose that this refers to the Messiah of Israel, Yeshua. He will use these acacia-tree-members to carry the table.

2. Where else might this table be mentioned? I cannot dismiss the following text from describing this table, since the timing is the same:

Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

In this psalm, the enemies will be able to view this table, but then won’t be able to interfere in any way with what they see.

3. Why would the Messiah use these members who are not necessarily yet born of God to carry the table? Yehovah will reward them with life for what they have done, and He will grant them everlasting life by His fervent and burning zeal that prods Him to take action on their behalves because they were willing to take action for His property at the risk of their own lives! Thus, He will use them in order to everlastingly bless them for doing good and what is right!

XIII. Bowls, Spatulas, Cups and Bowls (verse 29)

“And thou shalt make his deep-bowls and his depressed-spatulas and his collections-cups and his innocence-bowls that he will pour via them.” He told of what these items must be made: “Thou shalt make them pure gold.”

Questions

1. What is this “deep bowl,” and what does it typify? The Hebrew word for bowl is related to a word meaning to cut in a mark. It also contains another Hebrew word that means to empty a vessel so that its inside bottom is made bare. Put together, it describes a person (or a group) that is marked as emptied. I propose that this describes a person or group that has lost a family/families. This person (or group) is very ready to be filled, including to take on responsibility for others to fill the void.

2. What is this “palm-of-the-hand spatula,” and what does it typify? The Hebrew word describes the palm of the hand. The palm of the hand is used to grasp. I propose that this describes a person whose hand is now empty, and the person desires to grasp to another.

3. What is this “stripped cup,” and what does it typify? The Hebrew word describes stripping bark from a piece of wood, and lathing it until it is a cup-shaped piece (that is therefore hollowed out). This idea of stripping off and hollowing, I propose, describes a person who will be stripped of all cover and possessions, and who will be hollowed out and ready to contain what is necessary for others and their needs.

4. What is this “innocence bowl,” and what does it typify? This is another kind of bowl. Inside the word for bowl is the word for innocence. I propose that it describes innocent ones who are ready to be filled, and from which pouring will take place.

5. What do these four items have in common? They all have been emptied, and they all are ready to be used and to be filled in order to be poured for others.

6. Why must they be made of pure gold? They will reflect only incorruptibility.

I have proposed that pure gold either typifies deity or a person/group that is righteous and that will die.

I am not comfortable with the second consideration at this time: that it represents deceased heroes/heroines.

If I will take these items to be the first consideration, that they represent deity only, and if I look at the attributes of each of these items, I see that Yeshua was marked and cut out from Yehovah to be emptied:

Philippians 2:5 This mind shall be in you that was also in Messiah Yeshua ⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, ⁷but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a slave, and was made in the likeness of men. ⁸And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death: even the death of the cross.

It is Yeshua’s hand that grasps those that the Table represents.

He gave Himself to be stripped of all things pertaining to His deity that stopped Him from being in the form of a human slave, and He emptied Himself of all His reputation in order to drink of the cup of the wrath of Yehovah for Israel. He was absolutely innocent. He will pour out wrath on those who try to destroy Israel and Israel’s friends.

7. These items are made for use with what structure? They are made for use with the table. Thus, they will serve the table (and what the table typifies). If I am right, and they all represent different kinds of works that Yeshua will do, they show the different forms of action that Yeshua will take on behalf of the Table, what the Table represents.

XIV. Bread of Faces (verse 30)

“And thou shalt continually give bread of faces upon the table to my faces!”

Questions

1. What is “bread of faces”? The following text gave me the needed clue:

Exodus 18:12 And Jethro father-in-law of Moshe took an ascension and sacrifices to Elohim. And Aharon came, and all elders of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moshe to the faces of the Elohim.

There are times when eating is just normal and regular, and there are times when eating is being done as part of an event done to Yehovah and in front of Yehovah. When eating is done in this second manner, the ‘bread’ (food) is being eaten before the faces of Yehovah, and is termed the bread of faces. I propose that this connects with the following texts:

Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.

Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

If Moshe is a type of Yehovah, the text, “And thou shalt continually give bread of faces upon the table to my faces,” shows what Yehovah will do (or perhaps Moshe is a type of Yeshua!—after all, it is Yeshua’s Kingdom that will come!).

Thus, the bread of faces is the food that is eaten directly before Yehovah/Yeshua as part of one of Yehovah’s events.

2. Why is to my faces so important in the statement, “And thou shalt continually give bread of faces upon the table to my faces”? These are events in the Tribulation—events that will give the impression that God has turned away from them, except for the miracles that He will regularly do for them. They won’t necessarily know at first that the faces of Yeshua are toward them and for them; they will learn this as time goes on and as they are rescued over and over again from enemies.

XV. The Menorah (verse 31)

Yehovah commanded Moshe to build the Menorah: “And thou shalt make a pure gold light-emanator.” He told the process that must be used to make her: “The light-emanator shall be made hard-turned-work.”

She has parts; Yehovah told from where they must originate: “Her thigh and her acquisition-beam, her pitchers, her hand-guides and her buddings-forth shall be from her!”

Questions

1. What is a light emanator? It is a structure that emanates (radiates, gives off) light. A flashlight (torch) is a light emanator. A lit candle is a light emanator. The sun is a light emanator.

2. How will this light emanator appear if it is pure gold? It will appear like crystal glass!

3. If it will “be made hard-turned-work,” what does this indicate? It won’t be melted and poured, and it won’t be cut into pieces to make the various parts; it will be fashioned while being one piece, turning the shapes from the one piece of gold. (Again, I do not know the process that a human could do to do this; the Spirit of Yehovah taught men how to do this.)

4. What is the thigh of this light emanator? It is like the hip. Consider a proposed picture of this light emanator (also called the Menorah in Hebrew):

The thigh, then, is the central shaft. The other shafts come from this one central shaft.

5. What is her acquisition reed? A reed is a plant part that is hollow and liquid-filled (until the liquids dry). Once it is dry, it can be again filled with liquid. Plant reeds of some plants are natural ‘straws’ (like for drinks).

I translated the Hebrew word used here as acquisition-reed because the same word that means reed also is the Hebrew word meaning to acquire, to get, to obtain, to purchase.

This Menorah has seven acquisition reeds; oil for the Menorah can be added to any of these seven reeds, and they meet together in such a way that when one is filled, all will be filled.

6. What is her pitcher? This pitcher is a container for the oil that will supply the flame with fuel. The Hebrew word describes a hill or a city built on a hill. It also is used to describe a cap on one’s head: high up and exposed for all to see.

7. What is her hand guide? When I saw this Hebrew word, I wondered why it had four Hebrew letters as its root (instead of the normal three). I then divided the word into two words. When I did, I saw that the first word means the palm of the hand, and the second word means to go on a tour; to guide.

The reader needs to know one detail: The entire Menorah is based on the almond tree. (Another text shows this.) Everything described, if this is true, is describing parts of an almond tree. Yet, everything described is a type of things to come.

While translators figured that this “hand guide” referred to ‘knops’ (that is, to buds of a plant), the type of this hand guide shows the work that what this Menorah represents will do!

8. What is her budding forth? These are blooms (flowers!)

9. What does the Menorah typify, and why is the Menorah described as feminine? While this is too early in this text to be able to show what it typifies, I thought that it would be wise to explain this now. The Menorah typifies the seven Spirits of Yehovah, which together are one Spirit! There are seven branches to this pure gold structure, and it gives light. The seven Spirits are described in the following text:

Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of Yehovah shall rest upon Him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yehovah.

Here is the list:

The Spirit of Yehovah
The Spirit of Wisdom
The Spirit of Understanding
The Spirit of Counsel
The Spirit of Might
The Spirit of Knowledge
The Spirit of the fear of Yehovah

The central shaft is the Spirit of Yehovah. The other six are connected to the Spirit of Yehovah, and are therefore parts of the Spirit of Yehovah.

The seven Spirits are also mentioned in this text:

Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices and seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

The Menorah is described as feminine because she will be so much like a woman and a mother in what she does.

Women have thighs upon which they can carry children
Women can acquire both children and what is necessary for children
Women so often carry pitchers and provide what is necessary to drink
The palms of the hands of women are great guides for children
Women can bud forth and produce newly birthed children

I am not saying that men can’t do most of these things, but truly a woman can do all of them if she is wise, resourceful (able to obtain and do what she needs to obtain and do), and in good enough health.

Another woman, Wisdom, will be featured in other parts of the Bible. She shows the seven Spirits of Yehovah; she is the Messiah!

10. Why must all these things specifically “be from her”? She is the central shaft: She is the Spirit of Yehovah! All of her attributes come from the Spirit of Yehovah!

XVI. Acquisition Beams (verse 32)

“And six acquisition-beams are exiting from her sides: three acquisition-beams of the light-emanator from her one side and three acquisition-beams of the light-emanator from her second side.”

Questions

1. What is the practical benefit of an acquisition reed? Replace the word reed with straw, referring to a drinking straw. What would be the purpose of an acquisition straw? Isn’t it to obtain juice or some drink from another source (like a cup)? I propose that these reeds typify how different persons or groups will obtain various parts of the Spirit of Yehovah during the Tribulation!

1 Corinthians 12:13 For we are all baptized into one body by one Spirit, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free, and all have been made to drink into one Spirit!

2. Why are there just two sides instead of the reeds being arranged in a complete orb? I don’t know. It is as if she, the Menorah, is designed like a human, but instead having six arms (like some of the angels who have six wings).

XVII. Watching Pitchers, Hand Guides, Budding (verse 33)

The Menorah has six acquisition beams. In each are three watching pitchers, a hand guide and a budding forth. The acquisition beams all exit from the light emanator.

Questions

1. What is a watching pitcher? The Hebrew word for almond also means to watch, be alert and wakeful (for something or someone). Now, this Menorah will use these containers (pitchers) that are shaped exactly like almond fruit (not the seed, but the entire fruit, which means that they look like peaches) to store the olive oil that fuels the wick flames. Those pitchers of oil will be watching as if on a hill. Another text refers to this:

Matthew 5:14 “Ye are the light of the world! A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. ¹⁵And men don’t light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a lampstand. And it gives light unto all that are in the house! ¹⁶Let your light so shine before men so-that they will see your good works and will glorify your Father Who is in the heavens!”

The word for pitcher can also refer to a city on a hill! If that city on a hill is watching and alert, it will be able to make beneficial decisions if a friend or an enemy approaches. The Spirit of Yehovah will give groups just such an ability.

2. Why did Yehovah design this with three watching pitchers? (Unless He tells me, I don’t know.) The number does tend to correspond to Yehovah the Father, Elohim the Son, and Yehovah the Spirit Who are One, and Who are watching those who have His Spirit in their midst.

3. What picture is obtained when the acquisition-reed, the hand-guide and the budding-forth are put together? The work of the Spirit of Yehovah is to acquire (and give), to hand-guide, and to cause to produce fruit (the result of budding-forth when it is completed). These things will be life-saving during the Tribulation when the dangers all around are greater than they have ever been at any time in the history of the planet.

4. What is the total number of watching pitchers so far? Three times six is eighteen. I don’t know of that number being significant. I only know that there are three for each reed (for each branch of the Menorah).

XVIII. The Main Beam of the Menorah (verses 34-36)

Yehovah explained, “And four watching pitchers, her hand-guides and her buddings-forth are in the light emanator.”

He then explained where the hand guides must be located: “And a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-beams from her, and a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-beams from her, and a hand-guide is under two of the acquisition-beams from her to six of the acquisition beams exiting from the light emanator.”

A vital part of the construction of the Menorah is explained: “Their hand-guides and their acquisition-beams from her will be all of her: one pure gold hard-turned-work.”

Questions

1. What are these four watching pitchers (that are shaped like almond fruit), and how are they different from the ones above? They aren’t different except in number. They are located on the central branch.

2. What do they typify? What might give me a clue is their number: four. That number usually indicates north, south, east and west. If that is the case, and if they represent Yehovah as I proposed above, their number might represent all the directions that Yehovah is watching as He hand-guides and gives the ability to produce good fruit (from the ‘buddings forth’) to groups who have His Spirit.

3. Why is there one hand-guide under two acquisition reeds from her? The same palm-of-the-hand guide is for two acquisition reeds. I propose that this will connect with the following text in which Peter is discussing non-Jewish folks obtaining the Spirit of Yehovah:

Acts 11:17 “Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Messiah Yeshua, what was I that I could withstand God?” ¹⁸When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God also granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles!”

God had granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles; He had also given those non-Jewish Saints ministerial gifts (miraculous abilities to do what was both impossible and necessary, and do it with ease) by giving them from His Spirit!

The one hand guide joins two, and the text tells how they join:

The Spirit of Wisdom is joined with the Spirit of Understanding, with one hand guide.

The Spirit of counsel is joined with the Spirit of might, with one hand guide.

The Spirit of knowledge is joined with the Spirit of the fear of Yehovah, with one hand guide.

In each of these cases, the Spirit of Yehovah will give light to groups of the ‘good guys’ going toward Mount Zion, and His Spirit will personally guide them.

4. What does “Their hand-guides and their acquisition-reeds shall be from her” mean? This means that no other pieces of pure gold can be used; all the structures must be made from just one piece of pure gold that makes up the base and central shaft.

5. What does “All of her is one pure gold hard-turned-work” mean? The entire Menorah must be made from this one piece of pure gold using the form of workmanship that is done by turning. (This sounds like they would be working the gold as if it were clay. This would be miraculous.)

6. Why is making the whole thing out of one piece of pure gold so important? This, too, is a type! It shows that the seven Spirits of Yehovah cannot be divided, and the work that they do cannot be divided!

XIX. The Menorah’s Lamps (verse 37)

“And thou shalt make her lamps: seven.” Those lamps must ascend (they must go up): “And he shall make-ascend her lamps.” Yehovah explained why: “And they shall lighten upon-across her faces.”

Questions

1. What are these seven lamps? I use the following text to give me a clue:

Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars that thou saw in my right hand, and the seven gold lamps: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven congregations, and the seven lamps that thou saw are the seven congregations.

If this is correct, there will be seven congregations that each show especially one of the seven Spirits of Yehovah.

2. Why must her lamps ascend? Consider this text:

Judges 13:20 And he was in the ascension of the flame from upon the altar the heavensward! And Messenger Yehovah ascended in the flame of the altar! And Manoah and his wife are seeing! And they fell upon their faces landward!

I propose that this shows that Yehovah will make appearances to the seven congregations in order to tell them very important things, and then He will ascend. He will then cause the light from the seven congregations to ascend in order to give light that will lighten both upon and across the faces of the Spirits of Yehovah.

If these things are true, and the Menorah (I know) is the Spirit of Yehovah, the congregations will give light, and this will cause the entire Menorah to radiate light, thus causing others to see the light from the Spirits of Yehovah that are working through these congregations.

XX. The Pure Gold Orb (verses 38-39)

This Menorah must have takers and seizers: “And her takers and her seizers are of pure gold.” They will be suspended on a pure gold orb: “He shall make her a pure gold orb with all these utensils.”

Questions

1. What are her takers? These are the Menorah’s instruments for taking. Since the Menorah typifies the Spirit of Yehovah, the takers will typify the work of the Spirit of Yehovah to take folks and groups from one place to another in order for them to benefit others.

2. What are her seizers? They are instruments of the Spirit of Yehovah used to take hold of persons and permanently remove them from earth and life:

Psalm 52:7 Indeed, Mighty-[One] will- everlastingly -break-thee-down! He will seize thee! And He has-torn-thee-away from the Tent and thy root from the land of living-[ones].

This Psalm is about bad guys, and it describes how Yeshua will take hold on them, He will remove them, and He will destroy them.

3. What are all these utensils? It refers to the entire Menorah and all things related to the Menorah.

4. What is an orb? It is a ball-shaped item.

5. What does “He shall make her a pure gold orb with all these utensils” mean? He must start out with one ball of pure gold; he must fashion all the parts of the Menorah from that single orb (ball)!

XXI. Exactly Copy the Pattern! (verse 40)

Yehovah warned, “And see and make via their building that thou art seeing in the mountain!”

Questions

1. What must Moshe see? He must see the patterns of everything—of every item that the Israelis will be making. He must remember every item, every item’s size, shape, color, material, etc. in order to perfectly match these things.

2. What does “make via their building” mean? This means to make each item exactly the way that Yehovah has built them in the heavens. Every item that the Israelis will make on earth is already made in the heavens!

3. Did Moshe see these items in the heavens, or did he see them in the mountain? Moshe was shown the heavenly items while he was in the mountain. Yehovah made sure that Moshe could see them all in the greatest detail so that he could confirm that they are being made exactly correctly!

4. Was Moshe able to touch the items that he saw in the mountain? The text doesn’t give this information. I cannot tell how Moshe was able to view the items from all sides (including below them); it sounds as if he would have been able to handle them in order to study them in detail, but Yehovah could have caused the items to be seen, to be turned, and to be viewable from all angles without touching them.

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