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Does The Pattern Explain the Supernal Nature?
This measuring rod or reed shows how Christian's
use of the titles of Lord, God and the erroneous
name and title of Jesus Christ brings about
confusion in the believer's hearts and minds
concerning Spiritual things. These titles and names
fail to convey the true characteristics and nature
of Our Heavenly Father and his Son.
By examining the structure of the tabernacle and
the functions of the priests therein, one can begin
to understand the structure and function of
Elohim's (God's) spiritual embodiment (Heb.
9:1-10). The tabernacle is composed of three
compartments, divided by veils, with a total of
nine major vessels therein. The second veil divided
the Most Holy Place from the Holy Place. It was
blue, purple, scarlet, and lavishly embellished
with angels or cherubim. There was a first veil
that divided the Holy Place and Court Round About.
It had the same colors and embellishments with
angels as the second veil. But the angels were only
on the inside of the first veil facing the Holy
Place.
The three compartments of the tabernacle explain
the structure of Spirit or the Godhead. Diagram 3
on the next page shows the correlation between the
tabernacle pattern and the Godhead or Supernal
Nature which is as follows: 1. Most Holy Place by
the Pattern is correlated to Yahweh - the Father.
2. Holy Place by the Pattern is correlated to
Elohim - Word or Son. 3. Court Round About by the
Pattern is correlated to Yahshua the Messiah - the
personification of the Holy Spirit in concrete
form. Now these three compartments makeup one
tabernacle not three separate ones.
The Apostle John explains the Godhead in 1 John
5:7-8, "For there are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one. And there are three that
bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three agree in one."
How Can You Prove the 3 States of Spirit?
Now to prove that the Father Yahweh, Pure
Spirit, has three states, we must examine the
things that are made in the physical universe. The
apostle Paul said: "Because that which may be known
of Elohim is manifest in them; for Elohim (God)
hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Supernal nature
(Godhead); so that they are without excuse: (Rom.
1:19-20)"
Now there are three states and conditions of
Spirit, the ultimate source and substance of all
things visible and invisible: (1. The Father; 2.
The Word or Son; and 3. The Holy Spirit). Matter is
created from Spirit or is Spirit materialized into
its lowest state. Physical matter must reflect the
characteristics of Spirit, the parent source and
substance, just as man or any other life form
inherits or reflects the characteristics or traits
genetically of his parents. Thus matter must be
three-fold to reflect the three states of Spirit.
The three states of matter are: 1. Gas; 2. Liquid;
3. Solid; and all matter is composed of atoms which
are also three-fold: 1. Proton; 2. Neutron; 3.
Electron. (See Diagram 4)
By comparing the characteristics of each state
of matter with the Godhead, one is able to
understand or conceptualize the three states of
spirit. For example, the gaseous state of matter is
invisible, likened unto Yahweh Pure Spirit, who is
also invisible, incomprehensible, and inscrutable,
the source and substance of all things visible
(Physical realm) and invisible (Angelic Realm). The
next state of matter is liquid that is visible, and
takes on the form of its container. Liquid can be
likened unto Elohim that takes on shape and form of
a man in visions and revelations within the
confines of man's mind (Exo. 24:9-10; Ezek. 1:26).
The lowest state of matter is solid that is
concrete and has a definite shape and volume,
likened unto Elohim or the Word made flesh (who the
world calls Jesus Christ), who can be observed with
the physical senses (I Tim. 3:16). These analogies
and comparisons of the three states of matter with
the three states of spirit prove the nature and
operation of Spirit and enables one to have the
correct image of it.
From the above comparative analysis, the
tabernacle pattern, or the "Philosophical Measuring
Rod," proves that there are three manifestations or
states and conditions of the One Spirit (Deut. 6:4)
as compared with the states of matter:
1. Yahweh, The Pure Spirit -Abstract State,
(Most Holy Place by the Pattern) the invisible,
inscrutable principle has no shape and form and
often depicts Himself as a cloud. This correlates
with the gaseous state of matter. Note: See Diagram
5 (Lev. 16:2; Deut. 4:12; Matt. 17:5)
2. Elohim, the Word or Son -Intermediate State,
(Holy Place by the Pattern) is visible only in
visions and revelations. Elohim is Spirit or the
Father, in part not totality, in shape and form of
a man (Ex. 24:9-10; Jn. 1:1-4; 5:37). This is
correlated with the liquid state of matter.
3. Yahshua the Messiah-Concrete State, (Court
Round About by the Pattern) or Jesus Christ is
Elohim in a physical body, the visible
manifestation of Spirit (Col. 1:15-17; Jn. 1:14).
This is correlated with the solid state of matter.
Now there are also three states of time: 1.
Future; 2. Present; 3. Past. (See diagram 4 for the
comparison by the three-fold pattern). We can make
the same comparison about "time", being three-fold,
as are the three states of matter and the three
states of Spirit. For example very little is known
about the future for a certainty (the Most Holy
Place by the pattern). Likewise nothing can be
understood about the Pure Spirit State of Yahweh
the Father. He is Inscrutable and Incomprehensible
or an Abstraction in this state and condition to
man's finite mind. An understanding of the future
can be obtained by understanding the present (the
Holy Place by the pattern) and the past (the Court
Round About by the pattern). Likewise it is Elohim
or the Son and the Messiah in the flesh that
reveals the Father to us. We have an understanding
of the present by having a understanding of the
past. It is the past which we understand the most,
just as we have the most understanding of Elohim
while he was made flesh as the Messiah (Jn. 1:14; 1
Tim. 3:16).
Does The Body's Formation Confirm the Structure
of the GodHead?
Science also shows that these three states of
Spirit are found in the formation of man. Human
beings, like chickens or any other life form, come
from a seed or an egg. All life forms in their
beginning are without any shape and form. They are
nothing more than genetic codes or genes and
chromosomes, just as the earth was without form and
void in its beginning (Gen. 1:1-3). This further
proves that the Father Yahweh, Pure Spirit, has no
shape and form (See Diagram 5). It is known that
the implanted human fertilized egg, with the
genetic code therein, begins to take on shape and
form in a orderly fashion in the womb of a woman
invisible to the human eye. This shows forth that
Yahweh the Father in part took on the shape and
form of a man that can be seen only in visions. See
Diagram 1. Finally the baby is visibly seen after
coming through the woman's birth canal.
Diagram 6 (below) compares the three germ cell
layers of the fertilized human ovum that forms all
the body's tissues and organs to the 3-fold
pattern. They are:
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