"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." Matthew 13:25

"And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." Exodus 25:8-9

Greetings, friends! Isn't it wonderful to be so filled with the joy of the Lord and the consciousness of His Presence that you just know that this day is going to be an unusually happy one? And should you be one of those who have remained in the spiritual darkness up unto this day, so that you are not bubbling over with happiness, or you know nothing about the Presence of Christ in your life, then it is high time that you wake up and join that happy throng which bubbles over with irrepressible joy!

If today you were a youngster and had for your daddy the richest man in the world, who also happened to be the wisest man in the world, as well as the kindest man in the world, wouldn't there be plenty of reason for your being the happiest youngster in the whole world? Maybe you are no longer a youngster, and maybe your father did not measure up to those three wonderful standards, but if so, I have marvelous news for you. When you are born anew into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, then is our Lord and Savior your Father. And as to wisdom, it is recorded that He created this universe. In fact, we are told that by Him were all things made, and that without Him was not anything created (Jn. 1:3). I believe you will agree that calls for plenty of wisdom. And as to kindness, He offered His body into death by way of the cruelest torture in order that you and I might have life, and have it more abundantly. And to those who follow Him closely, He gave the assurance that He would never leave them, but remain perpetually with them even unto the end of the age. Therefore I say, when Christ our Lord is our Father and perpetual Standby, then have we cause to rejoice without measure, and that from morning to night, knowing for a certainty that nothing but His love and goodness expresses its fullness toward all of His!

Oh, to be sure, I know that most of you have been taught to believe that you were born into this world for trouble, grief and sorrow, to be eventually swallowed up in death. You have even been taught to believe that you must suffer much now to have happiness in a future life. But of this I can assure you: there is no such a teaching to be found in the Bible. All of such teachings are part and parcel of the tare-seed which Christ predicted would be sown "while men slept" (Matt. 13:25). That is the very nature of the tare-seed, which we might classify as a counterfeit wheat, which to the inexperienced eye appears like the genuine wheat until it approaches maturity. Those eating of it get sick, and if they continue eating, develop convulsions and die in great pain. And that, beloved, is what Christendom has been doing as individuals; while now on a worldwide scale we are on the verge of convulsions – to be followed by swift suicide.

May I remind you that Christ our Lord predicted that "night" would set in upon His departure from this world. During the spiritual darkness of this long night, people have not been able to distinguish the true wheat from the tare-seed. Therefore do we find individual Christians, as well as the world at large, in the lamentable situation obtaining today. But I bid you be of good cheer, for the glorious light of the returning Daystar is commencing to shoot over the spiritual horizon; the darkness is fast fleeing, and a new day is about to begin. And if it so be that you have lived in grief and disappointment, and been a stranger to the wondrous power of Jesus Christ in your personal life here and now, then again I say, be of good cheer: right now you can commence living a life of irrepressible joy! The Keys of Knowledge to the Kingdom of God are intended for the here and for the now. They are simple to use, and what a joy to live when you are a son or daughter of Jesus Christ!

I trust you have your Bible convenient and you should also have paper and pencil, that you may write down numbers that I will share with you shortly, but first I'm going to quote one verse from the 8th chapter of Isaiah to further illustrate what I mean when I say that practically all that is in our Bible is pure prophecy: "To the Law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (verse 20).

No doubt all of you understand what is referred to by the "Law"; however, I am not going to give you a discourse on the "Law" this time. Most of you already know it, while on the other hand it is almost correct to say that the less you know about it the better. Christ our Lord said that the Law obtained unto the days of John the Baptist (Matt. 11:13). And again He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you" (Jn. 13:34). If then He gave a "new" commandment, that made all the previous ones obsolete. If you have and live the new commandment that Christ our Lord delivered to His followers, then you will never go wrong, whether or not you know anything about the Law delivered by Moses. But this time I want to show you a little more about the wondrous way of our God, and how beforehand He prepares every little detail which is to fit into the future picture.

So soon as we mention the Law, naturally our thoughts turn back to Moses, and that Tabernacle he pitched in the wilderness. The fact is, it becomes utterly impossible to separate the Law from the Mosaic Tabernacle: either one was indispensable to the other. I am not going to quote to you about the Mosaic Tabernacle, but I am going to mention some facts which, at your convenience, you will find stated in Exodus 26. Within the western half of the Mosaic Tabernacle was a small tent about 15 feet wide and about 45 feet long. In Biblical terms it was 10 cubits wide and 30 cubits long. That again was divided into two sections, the first being 20 cubits long in which the priesthood ministered, while in its final division of 10 cubits stood the Ark of the Covenant, and was entered only once a year by the High Priest.

In the 26th chapter you will find that there were 20 boards on the south side and 20 boards on the north side; these were 1 1/2cubits wide, and made up the 30-cubit distance for the length of the enclosure. When we multiply these 40 boards by 2/3 (which was the precise distance of the Holy Place), the result is 26 2/3. If we write this in decimals we would have the numbers 26.6666. Repeatedly I tell you that God's manifestation number to man is 100 to l. Therefore, when we multiply these 26 2/3 boards by 100, we get 2,666.66: call that years. From Genesis and Exodus (you can figure it out for yourself), you will find that there were exactly 2,666.66 years until Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. I trust you have observed that startling correspondence: the exact year and month when Israel received the Law was precisely the same as the number of boards inclosing the Holy Place, when multiplied by 100. Since 2/3 of the boards were required to cover the Holy Place, that left 1/2 of the remaining 1/3 boards for each side of the Holiest. Since God wanted us to see that the l of the Holy Place corresponded to the year 2,666.66, then we were expected to understand that the balance, or the 1/2 of the boards remaining to enclose the Holiest (both sides of the Holiest had 1/2 of the remaining 1/3 boards), would add half again as many years, that is: 1,333.33 years. (For more information, order a copy of The Mosaic Tabernacle: Pattern for the Universe, available from our Store.)

Now when we add the 1,333 1/3 to 2,666 2/3 we get an even 4,000 years, at which time Christ our Lord was born into this world. You see, beloved, all the works of God are prophetic: He knows the future as well as the past, and so He conforms all of His works to agree to that pattern of the things which have been and the things which are to come.

That is now past history, but since we see that God wrought out the pattern of the future, which we have seen verified by history, then we only have to look a little further and see that which is still to come. Let us not overlook this great and all-important point: the very fact that the Mosaic pattern showed forth the finality of God's work as commencing in the year 4,000, proves to any right-thinking person that Jesus of Nazareth was that Messiah sent by God; there can be no ifs, buts, or maybes about that.

We have seen how the Holiest portion of the Mosaic Tabernacle, together with its Ark, bespoke the very Lord of Life, Who came for the absolute redemption of humankind. But since He was rejected, He went away, in order to carry on His work from a higher plane of being. How long will that work last? We have already seen how that was portrayed by 13 1/3 boards, measuring 1,333 1/3 years. But that is not counting the boards used to enclose its western end. In verse 22 of Exodus 26, you will find it clearly stated that there were 6 boards to close in the western end; that means we add 600 years to the 1,333 1/3 years for the work of Jesus Christ to carry on from the time that He chose and appointed His twelve Apostles. Chronologies may differ several years as to that precise time, but regardless of whose chronology we use, the figure we arrive at comes to the last half of the decade of the 1960s. But since the termination of His work will come in stages, covering several years, that means other factors may need to be considered. (For instance, if we were to add a period of testing [40] to this date, we would arrive at the years we are now entering – 2004+.) That is why I keep telling you our time is short. If you study the details carefully, you will find that there were two more narrow boards used for corner boards which were hooked to give sturdiness to the structure. Those two corner boards represent the first 30 years or so of Jesus' life before His ministry commenced, while the other corner represents a similar period which is to intervene between His return to earth and His setting up of the government for the millennial reign.

Because of these many prophetic measures all agreeing that God will bring this Christian dispensation to an abrupt close within our present era, I repeat: our time is short. And that makes it all the more important that you should lose no time in learning how to use the Keys of Knowledge to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for your here and for your now.

Previously I have told you that in God's symbolic language, west stands for God and that which pertains to Himself. So, we have already seen how when the 13 1/3 side boards had been traversed in time, that is, the 13 1/3 centuries after the Mosaic Tabernacle-pattern and LAW were received, that Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world. Within the sanctuary, that point in time was hard up against the boards at the west end. Those boards were overlaid with gold on both sides. And the boards were SIX (6 is the number of man). The gold portrays spirit and/or the things of God: it is absolute purity. Thus was shown by the symbology how the God-MAN would be born into the world at that time, living a life of absolute purity – unspotted by the world.

Is it in you to believe that Moses by himself was smart enough to foreshow through measurements in structure, the precise time that the Christ-child would appear? But "...with God all things are possible…" (Matt. 19:26).

Since we have seen the prophetic measures of the structure fulfill on precision time, that gives us good reason to expect the remaining balance to also fulfill.

The sides measured the precision 4,000 years. The duration of His expanding work was shown to cover 1,933 1/3 years. That left 66 2/3 years as portrayed by the two hooked-on corner pieces. Since we know that Jesus' earth-life covered 33 1/3 years (or slightly more), that left a shade over 33 years, which could be added to a "40" of testing to intervene between His calling out of the world His Bride, until the millennial reign.

Are YOU ready for those world-rocking events? Are YOU ready to face the Judge of the quick and the dead? If not, your time is short to get thoroughly acquainted with our Savior and soon-coming King!

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