There is a very extreme emphasis throughout the 2 official witnesses our heavenly Father offers to validate His truths and principles. These 2 witnesses are the written word of God (Bible) and the spoken word of God (creation, originally resulting from the verbal creational summons during 6 evenings and mornings). The previous posts addressing the dual application of the early and latter rains serve as just a single application for this incredibly extensive pattern. The scriptural and creational extreme saturation of this dual emphasis highlights the necessity to look for that dual pattern in all divine truths and principles. Since this is our claim to be the major stumbling block accelerating the prophesied apostasy in this last generation of the Ecclesial Age, then we should be able to conclusively demonstrate that divine emphasis. If this pattern cannot be demonstrated with an overwhelming emphasis, then this warning has no merit and is baseless… like the story of the shepherd boy that cried wolf.
We will approach this pattern through several divine themes, in order to demonstrate the 3-dimensional depth of this substantial divine pattern. These themes will include the frameworks of salvation, creation, divine architectural design, prophecy, miracles, divinely ordained rituals as well as divine laws and rituals.
The dual emphasis in the framework of a salvation theme is very common. There were 2 salvation ark shadows employed by God to project the salvation that would be available through His son, the antitypical salvation ark. These were Noah’s Ark and the Golden Ark of the Covenant. There were 2 genders (man and women) and 2 generations saved on that ark. God commanded that 2 categories of animals also be saved (clean and unclean). That gopher wood ark was double sealed with pitch (both inside and outside). It should be noted the verb God uses to command that double sealing is the Hebrew word kaphar, which is predominantly translated as “atonement”.
The 2nd divinely appointed salvation ark that is also directly identified with atonement (indicating salvation) also was covered both inside and outside, but this time with the 2nd covering of gold, as opposed to pitch as used with Noah’s ark of salvation. This Ark was employed on only 1 day every year, the Day of Atonement. At this time the High Priest would enter the Most Holy Chamber to perform 3 separate rituals involving that Golden Ark, but each of those rituals would have a dual emphasis. The first was when the High Priest carried 2 handfuls of incense into the Most Holy Chamber, fed those 2 handfuls of incense into the fire where that dust was transfigured into a cloud that embraced the divine glory between the golden cherubim on the Ark. This saved the life of the High Priest (Lev. 16:12-13). This ritual projects the forever saving (atonement) of the antitypical High Priest, Jesus Christ. Those 2 handfuls of 4 incense ingredients (2×4=8) identify our savior’s name in how the 6 alphanumeric Greek letters forming his name add up to 888.
The 2nd Day of Atonement ritual projects the 2nd salvation/atonement event in our Creator’s plan. This was when the High Priest brought the bullock blood into the Most Holy Chamber and spattered it across the Mercy Seat of the golden ark in 2 directions, both east and west (Lev. 16:14). This was for the atonement of the whole family of the High Priest. This is a shadow prophecy of the 2nd immortalization/atonement event in the Creator’s plan when the family of the High Priest will be immortalized at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom.
The 3rd Day of Atonement ritual projects the 3rd salvation/atonement event in our Creator’s plan. This was when the High Priest brought the goat blood into the Most Holy Chamber and spattered it across the Mercy Seat of the golden ark in 2 directions, both east and west (Lev. 16:15). This was for the atonement of the rest of the nation. This is a shadow prophecy of the 3rd immortalization/atonement event in the Creator’s plan when the saints from the rest of the world will be immortalized just after the end of the Millennial Kingdom, in that 8th millennium from creation.
So why does this dual emphasis apply to all 3 of the salvation/atonement rituals surrounding that 2nd salvation Ark with its 2nd covering category of gold? Why did these 2 salvation arks have to be double covered? This is because there are 2 basic aspects to atonement. This is one of the divine truths being repeatedly denied and undermined by oddly respected Brethren in our community writing our books and teaching at our Bible Schools and Study Weekends. The 1st atonement aspect is forgiveness, a heavenly application. The 2nd atonement aspect is the covering of a divinely unclean nature, which is an earthly application. These are the two basic components of all creation: heaven and earth. It is the blending of both heaven and earth at the conclusion of the Creator’s plan that will result in perfect harmony, when God will “be all in all” (1 Cor. 15:24-28).
The 1st salvation association with forgiveness is universally accepted, but it is incomplete. In the same theme there were 2 aspects of divine unacceptability. These have been behavioral and physical. The divine holiness pursuit demanded during the 1st Kingdom Age included the physical holiness standards of a restricted diet, and reconciliation procedures for the physical defilement of touching the dead, suffering with leprosy and suffering with a bodily issue. This physical holiness was in addition to the behavioral holiness demands that are temporarily not required during the Ecclesial Age dispensation of the Creator’s plan. There is more to atonement than simply the forgiveness of sins. There is a cleansing from physical defilement that is part of the atonement principle. There will be a greater concentration on the physical cleansing 2nd aspect of atonement/salvation in subsequent posts.
Another highly significant dual highlight in relation to salvation is that there will be 2 separate salvation events in 2 separate divine days of the 7th day (millennium) and the 8th day (millennium). That 2nd salvation event of the saints is timestamped after the conclusion of the Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:5,7). These 2 salvation timestamps of the 7th and 8th ‘divine’ days since creation parallel the signature rituals of the 2 great covenants of works and faith. The signature ritual of the Mosaic Covenant of works was Sabbath Observance on the 7th day when there was a rest from all our labors. The signature ritual of the Abrahamic Covenant of faith was circumcision, observed on the 8th day when the crown of flesh was cut away from a man. In the same pattern there will be a salvation/atonement event in the 7th day when there will be a rest from the physical effects of sin all through creation and in the 8th day all flesh will be cut away with the elimination of death following that 2nd salvation event of the saints in that 8th millennium since creation.
Hopefully we are beginning to see the extensiveness of this dual pattern. The weight of this evidence has to be substantial enough to overcome the social pressures within the endangered enlightened community accelerating the prophesied corruption of this last generation of the Ecclesial Age.
We will be pursuing the width, depth and height of this dual pattern throughout all of our Creators manifestations in order to provide the light to dispel the darkness that is creeping over the enlightened community in the last years before the return of Christ.