EVERLASTING Revelation Gospel – Part 4
June 25, 2010
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Revelation 14:6 – And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
In Parts 1 to 3, I traced the Message of the Everlasting Gospel in Genesis 3:15 through Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah. Moses and the Tabernacle, or Tent in the Wilderness, was a picture of the everlasting gospel of grace that the Seed would provide by being the only human who ever fulfilled the law of Moses, there
by being declared righteous as a man.
Christ’s sacrifice, as an innocent righteous man, who had never once sinned, allowed God to be just and the justifier of those who accept his grace offer when they believe Christ was the total atonement for all of their sins. When Christ fulfilled the law he fulfilled it for all who would believe it was God’s grace covering for all sin, past, present, and future.
The Seed’s sacrifice covered all the sins of believers in the past, who lived before the cross, and all the sins of those in the future. It covered the sins of all men from Adam to me to the last man who believes from the Garden of Eden to the end of the Seed’s reign of a thousand years.
Romans 3:23-28 – For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and t
he justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then
? It is excluded. By what law
? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
[28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Genesis 49:10 – The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The tabernacle, or tent, which had traveled with Moses and the children of Israel, since it was built by God’s instructions during the long exodus travels, was finally set up by Joshua at Shiloh in the promise land.
Joshua 18:1 – And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Shiloh was about 15 miles north of Ramah, and was the place of abode for
the tabernacle from Joshua to the Prophet Samuel, where Samuel ministered as a child. From year to year, Israel went to the Shiloh tabernacle to worship.
I Samuel 1:3 – And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
the priests of the Lord, were there.
David brought the ark to Jerusalem after he drove out the Jebusites somewhere around 1000 B.C.
II Samuel 6:15 – So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and
with the sound of the trumpet.
The tabernacle, and everything in it, pictured the future Seed’s character, ministry, and God’s promises
in him. The tabernacle at Shiloh was the earthly presentation of the character and work of the coming Seed, Christ Jesus.
Shiloh was the symbolic name of the ruler who was to come from Judah, who would never lose his right to rule.
The Tabernacle or Tent in the Wilderness, which held the Holy of Holies Ark of the Covenant and all the other symbols of Christ in its Holy Place and Courtyard, was the embodiment, the earthly picture, the earthly symbol of Christ, From its initial construction the Tent, and all its associated symbolic contents, were carried by Israel during its many years of wandering. After Israel had finally come into the promise land, Joshua set up the Tabernacle in Shiloh.
Acts 7:38 – This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Hebrews 8:1-6 – Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; [2] A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. [3] For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. [4] For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: [5] Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
[6] But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
It is a better covenant because now the promised Seed has come and visibly manifested himself as God in the flesh, thereby allowing us to understand it was always God’s grace in him, by faith in his sacrifice, that was the basis of the unconditional covenant of Genesis 3:15.
Hebrews 9:11-15 – But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; [12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. [13] For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: [14] How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 8:10 – For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
I Peter 2:10 – Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.