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Solomon’s Sea

 

It has been said that the Bible is all about Jesus from cover to cover. I would prefer a small adjustment for that to read The Bible is all about Jesus preparing a bride for Himself. It begins with a picture of the Father creating a bride for His son Adam by putting Adam into a deep sleep and bringing Eve forth out of his side. It then spends time on the troubles within Adam and Eve’s family which ends in total disaster. At the world-wide Flood God had to start all over again with only 8 people, Noah, his three sons and their wives.

 

The second part of the Bible is the Father putting His Son to ‘sleep’ on the cross. He did this to bring forth a bride from His side, “But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a lance, and instantly there came out blood and water. And he who saw bore record, and his record is true. And he knows that he speaks true, so that you might believe” (John 19:34-35).

 

And, “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore, will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:10-12).

 

Most of the New Testament from then on is about the troubles within God’s family until the final moment of triumph.  The Holy Spirit and the bride shall gather in the greatest harvest of all time, “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the one hearing say, Come! And let the one who is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the Water of Life freely” (Revelation 22:17).

 

When is this to take place? The mysteries hidden in code inside Solomon’s Temple tell us. We should not be surprised. The Bible has it all, but it takes certain people to discover them, “The glory of God is to hide a thing; but the honour of kings is to search out a matter” (Proverbs 25:2).

 

The Holy Spirit developed the topic of the temple of His body extremely slowly through the pages of the Bible beginning with the first prototype, the Garden of Eden. The Garden had a walled structure in Eden with its gate facing East (Genesis 3:24). Every temple since then had to have its doorway facing East, the direction of the rising of the Sun (Exodus 27:13). Consider the Eastern Gate in Jerusalem that stands directly in front of the Temple Mound.

 

The Garden was filled with knowledge. The Tree of Life stood in the midst (Genesis 2:9) as it does in the final Temple of His body (Revelation 2:7; 22:2; 22:14). The Tree of Life represents the fruitfulness of the righteousness of God.  Subsequent temples were the Tabernacle of Moses, Solomon’s Temple and the Temple of His body in which we are living stones. He is the chief cornerstone. The Lord was very particular about the dimensions of each temple and the materials used to construct them. All of them are time capsules filled with symbolisms waiting to be deciphered right now.

 

God gave explicit instruction for the construction of each of them. Hebrews 8:5 says, “Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the Tabernacle; “See that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”  “And see that you make them after their pattern, which was shown you in the mountain” (Exodus 25:40).

 

Much revelation was given to devoted pastors such as the Rev WH Offiler of Bethel Temple, Seattle, in the 1930’s to get the ball rolling. Much has been accomplished since by the fastidious Kevin Conner of Portland, Oregon and Melbourne, Australia, more recently. Much the Lord is giving me as well.

 

All the temples contain gems written in code. As a brief overview, the Tabernacle of Moses instructs us of the time given by the Lord for the periods of the Law and to the Gentile Church Age.  The Temple of Solomon is much more complex. It was larger and some articles of furniture were in tens as compared to the Tabernacle of Moses. Ten 7-branched candlesticks for instance, instead of one.

 

Ten is the Biblical number that identifies a test of some sort. I suggest readers to look in detail at the story of Rebekah and find out how she was tested twice whether she was a worthy bride for Isaac. Jesus told 500 disciples to wait in Jerusalem to be endowed with power from on high. Did they obey? No, they didn’t, only 120 of them. The rest got restless and went back to look after their homes. What they didn’t know is that all they had to do was to wait for another 10 days. The Lord was testing who was worthy amongst them.

 

The point is that the Temple of Solomon hides secret information about end times using codes describing who is worthy to be included in the bride of Christ. The example I am providing here, reveals the length of the church age (the Times of the Gentiles) and the length of the Millennium to come. It provides independent evidence for the statement in Revelation 20:4 of a 1000-year Millennium. It should comfort us that the signs around us are imminent warnings that time is shortly coming to an end.

 

We should take our eyes off worldly ambitions and focus on our spiritual well-being in preparation for the Second Coming. The Lord expects repentance and quantum leap responses from lethargic and enthusiastic, misdirected Christians who lack knowledge. Awake from sleep, Oh Christian! Remember the test given to the 10 virgins in the parable given by Jesus? Did you know that the purpose of the annual Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in ancient Israel was to forgive their sins of ignorance, only once annually? Ignorance is sin. Why? Because it means that people aren’t reading their Bibles which would have told them so.

 

Yom Kippur was a test for the people - whether they had truly responded to the 9 days of Trumpets calling them to examine themselves and repentance. The Day of Atonement was on the 10th Day of the 7th Month. This signified that only the repentant was forgiven of their sins of ignorance. Our modern Trumpets are those who have called for repentance for decades, Billy Graham amongst many others!

 

The Head of Genetics frequently pestered me in the only elevator leading to the ground floor. It was a goods elevator and was excruciatingly slow. The Lord used it for a good purpose. We both had to attend our laboratory classes in another building and often met in the elevator.

 

It gave the geneticist time to pull out his little red book given to him by the Skeptics Society. It was packed with cases of apparent contradictions in the Bible. He would quote a new one every time we met. It was one of the significant ways which forced me to examine the Bible in detail. I was told 40 years later that he eventually gave his heart to the Lord. Praise God. He was too ashamed to ever contact me!

 

His underlying reason for clinging to evolution theory was not based on scientific evidence.  He was harbouring a hurt that had personally offended him greatly. Perhaps a death in the family for which he blamed God. That became evident at the Evolution vs Creation debate.  We arranged for him to debate Dr Gary Parker of the USA.  Academics and research students from Melbourne attended – about 800 of them. The hall was packed. They were so disappointed with their champion afterwards.  I accompanied some of them back to the car park.

 

Dr. Gary Parker of the Creation Institute, USA, gently and systematically tore evolution theory to shreds. At his turn the geneticist only gave example after example of sufferings in this world. His horrific slides made the audience squirm. He did not provide one shred of scientific evidence.  He continued to repeat that a God of love would have never allowed parasites to create so much pain. Gary responded by explaining the Fall. Dr I Beck was genuinely concerned. He apparently had a long discussion with Gary afterwards. It took years for the Head of Department to humble himself.

 

On one occasion in the elevator, he read out a verse from 1Kings 7:23, “And he (King Solomon) made a molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, all around it. And its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits went around it”. Your God doesn’t know his maths, he commented. It yields an incorrect value of 3.0 for 30/10.

 

The Lord gave me the answer overnight. It was in 2Chronicles 4:2-5, “Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths”.

 

I estimated the average handbreadth of man to be about 4 inches. That yielded an internal diameter  of 10 cubits minus 2x4 inches for the width. The internal diameter of the vessel was therefore  approximately 150 - 8 = 142 inches. My corrected value for  was 4500/142 , 3.165 (3.142 is the correct value). The geneticist grumped and grabbed his red book again. My Christian mentor for life, Gordon Butterick, told me after a year of this, “Don’t do it anymore. He will never be satisfied”. This, by the way,  verifies the greater value of 18 inches per biblical cubit (an elbow’s length) accepted by some scholars to be incorrect.

 

 

Solomon’s Brazen Sea, manufactured by pouring an alloy, into a mould  has much to tell us. The Sea was eventually melted down for its valuable copper content by the Chaldeans (Jeremiah 52:17). The vessel was capable of holding approximately 16,000 gallons of water. Levites allocated to serve in the  Holy Place of Solomon’s Temple had to purify themselves first by immersion.

 

I cannot emphasize enough that nature of the metal used in constructing the various compartments of the Tabernacle is spiritually significant. Blood sacrifices for atonement were held in the Outer Court. Metallic items in the Outer Court where of brass/bronze. Brass signifies repentance. Silver and gold featured in the Holy Place. Gold was used in the Most Holy Place.

 

The three compartments in the Tabernacle of Moses and Solomon’s Temple thus offer a pictorial view of a Christian’s spiritual standing. Lukewarm Christians repent and accept the blood of Jesus but only enjoy the benefits of salvation. They bury their talents/testimony out of fear. They develop no further. They are neither hot nor cold. These Jesus prefers to spew out of His mouth (Revelation 3:14-22). I refer to them as ‘Outer Court Christians’ (Revelation 11:1-2).

 

Incidentally, I believe that the design of Olympic medals originates from a Christian who knew his/her Bible extremely well – Bronze, Silver and Gold – the people who bring forth 30-, 60- or 100-fold fruit in their lives (Parable of the Sower, Matthew Chapter 13). The 100-fold experience are those who fellowship with God in the Most Holy Place. Gold symbolizes incorruptible, righteous lives acceptable to the Father.

 

 

There is more to Solomon’s Sea, “And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths” (1Kings 7:26).

 

In contrast, according to 2Chronicles 4:5 it held three thousand baths, “And the thickness H5672  of it was an handbreadth, H2947  and the brim H8193  of it like the work H4639  of the brim H8193  of a cup, H3563  with flowers H6525  of lilies; H7799  and it received H2388  and held H3557  three H7969  thousand H505  baths H1324 ” (KJV with Strong’s numbers). Another Hebrew meaning of ‘kul’ for ‘held’ (H3557), is ‘to bear’.  A more reasonable translation therefore is this: The vessel was strong enough to contain 3000 baths but for temple service was only filled with 2000 baths of water. Why would that be?

 

The Brazen Sea stood in the Outer Court before the Holy Place.  It was used by the priests to purify themselves before entering the Holy Place.  Servicing the Holy Place included  filling the 7-branched golden lampstand with more oil, replacing the 12 barley loaves with fresh loaves and replacing the sacred incense and glowing coals on the Altar of Incense before the Vail of the Most Holy Place (where the Ark was).

 

Why is God so adamant about numbers? For the simple reason that it had to be kept hidden from His people until now; During the end times when the bride of Christ is urged to make herself ready (Revelation 19:7).

 

What is so significant about one bath of water? In Solomon’s temple a bath is prophetically equivalent to one year. Why was it filled with 2000 baths but never 3000 baths?

 

 

The Lord is thereby revealing that for the 2000 years of the Overspreading of Abominations since Christ every priest (us collectively) had to be washed or purified by water immersion – water baptism signifies burying our old man and arising in the newness of Christ (2Corinthians 5:1; Romans 6:4-5). Baptism was a command, not an option (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38, 10:48).

 

It is our privilege that during baptism we are given the family name of our loving triune God. Following Christ’s resurrection, the apostles always used the name of Jesus in various ways or the Lord Jesus Christ when they baptised. The apostles never used the phrase in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They obeyed and actually used their names not their offices of authority. Paul therefore rebaptised the disciples of John the Baptist (Acts 19:1-6).

 

“Outer Court Christians” have never bothered to spiritually grow closer to Christ by proceeding symbolically into the Holy Place where they would experience light from the 7-branched candlestick. As soon as Paul laid hands on the 12 men of Ephesus they spoke in tongues and prophesied! The number 12 is significant. It is the number of authority.  

 

Christ has made us kings and priests (Revelation 1:6; 5:10). Thus, all Christians are called to serve God, some bearing fruit 30-fold, some 60 and some 100-fold (Mark 4:1-20). The next verse explains why water baptism was not required for the following 1000 years, during the Millennium. “Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6).

 

This confirms the time chart for the Redemptive Week explained in my first articles in my series; Three prophetic days from Jesus to the end of the 1000-year Millennium, days 5, 6 and 7 comprising 1000 years each, spanning from the first advent of Christ to the end of the Millennium. During the first two prophetic days we constantly required cleansing from sin. During the 1000-year Millennium we are in our sinless resurrection bodies hence no longer needing cleansing. Therefore, the remaining 1000 bath capacity of the Sea was not filled with water!

 

 

Once the earth is totally restored from the Fall the Redemptive Week is completed. The Father then creates a new heaven and a new earth. This is the third work of God. Believers can be assured that there is no possibility of evil ever returning to the kingdom of God because all the wicked people and the fallen angels, the demons or unclean spirits, are locked up for all eternity in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:16).

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