There is more light family. When the light of the Feast of Tabernacles begins to shine on the Word, you don’t just see it with more light but you see from His viewpoint. We in Christendom are sometimes caught up in seeing everything as to how it pertains to us. He did everything as us and for us, but the Scripture says, "let us make man." You know why, because He had a need? He was a Father that wanted a physical family.

We realize that redemption was for Him, so He could have a family to fellowship with and have a people that could talk and walk with Him. So enlightenment is coming to the Scripture and we believe that by the power of the Spirit you are going to see at least how these things can be true.

We know that the Feast of Tabernacles is seen in the book of Revelation. We have taught a series called "The Literary Structure of the book of Revelation." The book of Revelation is a piece of literature and we believe it has structure to it. It’s difficult to understand any book if you don’t know where we are and what is happening in that book and especially if you don’t really know what the subject of that book is.

The Bible itself is so divine it is incredible. It takes God's Spirit to show you anything in it. You never get to the place where you see it all. There are three ways to structure the book of Revelation from Old Testament typology.

Number one you can do it through the Feast.

Through Feasts you see a beautiful unfolding of personal spiritual development. You can take a man as a newborn believer. Start him in Revelation chapter one and by the Spirit of God take him through a journey to Revelation twenty two and cause him to become that person out of which a river of life flows and healing is brought to the nation.

In the Tabernacle of Moses you can find in the book of Revelation an historic unfolding of the spiritual development of the church as a whole. The beginning of the book of Revelation you find the church in the Holy Place realm. We know that because here is John on the Isle of Patmos and he hears a trumpet behind him. First of all he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Physically his feet were standing on the Isle of Patmos, but spiritually he was in another place.

He was in a higher place then the one he was standing on physically. Not geographically but dimensionally, he was caught up. In being caught up, he never left where he was in body. He wasn’t caught away, he was caught up and he went a long ways. See the realm of the Spirit is so much higher than this realm.

We understand that the Garden of Eden never went anywhere when Adam fell, man went somewhere. Man descended from the Garden of Eden. The Garden is still where it always was. It’s not a physical location anywhere on this planet or any other. If it’s a physical place, tell me where those Cherubim’s are, that are supposed to keep people out. I’ve never heard of anyone that’s found them. If they were to keep people out then you would think people would have tried to go in.

It’s not a physical place it’s a spiritual place. When Adam was created he was an interface between the realm of the natural and the realm of the Spirit. He was walking in the spirit. He wasn’t consciences of the seen realm he was consciences of the unseen realm. When he fell he became aware of the realm of the seen and he had to put some cloths on.

When we get born again we are born from above. That’s not talking about a planet some where a million miles away. It’s talking about above, we are born from that place from which Adam fell. It’s a higher birth, a heavenly birth.

Now when you are born again, you know absolutely nothing of that unseen realm. You’re walking your way back up from Jericho to Jerusalem as typology is in Scripture. You’re on your way; you start your journey on ascension life. We are always ascending. Hopefully you’re always ascending, always going up, not geographically but dimensionally, don’t you want to be going higher in the things of the Spirit?

That just simply means that as you grow as a believer, you become more consciences of the realm of the Spirit. Feast of Tabernacles is when we grow up to the understanding of spiritual things. Father God still made man to be the interface between heaven and earth. We are the one thing that brings heaven and earth together. We are born of the Spirit and walking on the earth. So we need to become more and more heavenly minded, we are too carnally minded.

We find in First Corinthians fifteen, that the last enemy is death. What does the Bible define as death? Romans eight says, "to be carnally minded is death." Aren’t you ready for that enemy to be put under foot? To be carnally minded is death. I believe before we get through with this study that you will take one more step up. Every day there needs to be an ascension in your life, there is a certain section in the book of Psalms called the Psalms of ascent.

The book of Revelation is best seen from the Feast of Tabernacle. Charles Caps used to say "that the Bible is so simple and so easy to understand, you have to have somebody help you to miss-understand it." Then he would follow that by saying, "we’ve had worlds of help." I’m sure you’ve heard sermons and teachings on the book of Revelation. Let’s read the first words in the book.

Now, if you hadn’t been taught anything about this book. If nobody got to you before this study and this is the first time you’ve ever read this book. Here’s the last book of the Bible the sixty-sixth book. You know God is big enough to put these books in order on purpose. In the order of these books God is at work. The book of Revelation is the reader’s digest of the whole Bible it’s the condensed version of all of it.

What would this book be about if you had never heard anything else taught about it? You would be hard pressed to come up with bugs as big as Volkswagens, giant monsters or great tragedies. You would say this is a revelation of Jesus Christ.

The problem is that people have got to most of Father's people with a miss understanding of the book and their own revelation. We believe the book of Revelation is a revelation of Jesus Christ. It isn’t Revelations. We say that so often, but there is only one revelation and it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. This isn’t the only place in your New Testament that these combinations of Greek words are. In Galatians chapter one, the Apostle Paul was given the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Now here are two men in the New Testament. Number one Paul, a very practical man. I have spent my whole Christian experience studying who we are in Christ from the letters of Paul. We believe that the epistles written by Paul, hold the key to spiritual development, knowing who we are in Christ.

He was given a revelation of Jesus Christ and he wrote it down. People say, "what I need is a revelation just like the one Paul got." No you don’t need one like he got; you need the one he got! There are too many people trying to go out and get their own revelation. The reason God had Paul write his down, is because his is the one you need to get.

People say, "I can’t understand Paul," Paul said, "read what I wrote." You might learn the mystery by reading what Paul wrote. He was a practical man. All Paul wrote about was the Person and work of Christ. Without Paul we wouldn’t have any idea of what it means to be a Christian.

We come along later and John writes the Revelation of Jesus Christ and we for some reason take that to another direction. We think it talks about some great catastrophic end time events. We said in the last lesson, if you have a futuristic view of the book of Revelation you keep that view and we know exactly why you view that and we honor that. If you have an historic view of the book of Revelation you keep that view. We are not taking anything away from you.

What we are doing is just asking you to consider that there is a possibility that the book of Revelation also contains a view of the redemptive work in symbolic form. Wouldn’t it be incredible to realize that the Apostle Paul and John were both writing about the same man? See, that is the pattern of God.

For instance in the Old Testament Haggai and Zechariah were both writing to people who were re-building the temple. Haggai was a very practical man, he said, "go up to the mountain and get some wood." What a great revelation there, but Zechariah writing to the same people. What far out visions this man had. Writing to the same people about the same situations. You have one practical and one visionary.

That is exactly what the New Testament affords, it affords the practical and the visionary revelation and we need both sides. The book of Revelation begins "the Revelation of Jesus Christ" and it goes on to say: "which God gave unto him." Who’s the "him" here that God gave the revelation of Jesus Christ to, Jesus Christ? See, this fits right in with Paul’s revelation because why would Jesus ever have to have a revelation of Himself?

God gave it to Him, because on the cross Jesus identified with us in every aspect of Christ, spirit, soul and body. Including the confusion that we had inherited from Adam. That’s the reason we see Him wear a crown of thorns, that crown of thorns is a part of the curse. That symbolizes His identification with us in our way of thinking and that was cursed.

One of the most important things Jesus said in the seven things He said from the cross was right in the middle of His seven statements. He said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me." Now family if there was anybody that ought to have known, it ought to be Jesus, but on the cross He identified with us spirit, soul and body. He took your "why" so that you could have His mind.

He bore your Babylonian confusion, so that we would have the mind of Christ. In the book of Revelation chapter twelve, you find a sun-clothed women. She doesn’t have a crown of thrones she has a golden crown with twelve stars.

What a beautiful exchange that was. Family John is writing to people who were absolute scholars in Old Testament. When you study the book of Revelation you should try to think about where John got his imagery and try to realize what that particular place in Old Testament history portrayed and then you can find out what John is talking about in his vision. What’s important though is you have an understanding of the Old Testament. Just like when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost. The reason they could say "this is that" is because they knew what the Prophet Joel had said.

For instance, look at Revelation chapter fourteen.

The wrath of God was vented upon us all in the person of Christ; you got what you deserved in Christ. The wrath of God was revealed from heaven against all sin and ungodliness when God dealt with all men in His Son.

I know you might have imagery in your mind, but let me share something with you. We have all heard about a mighty battle for years. This would make you think of a battle in a valley that doesn’t exist any longer in which the blood rises to the horses bridle. I wonder if they were thinking that in John's day. Now remember in the original, there was no chapter breaks. Just keep reading on.

If you were reading this in the first century, if you were reading you would have a different understanding. What color was blood, red? What was the sea called that the children of Israel were to go through when they exited Egypt, the Red Sea? What happened to Pharaoh's horses in the Red Sea, they were drowned? You would say there that the blood or the Red Sea came up to the horse's bridle.

Then right after that the children of Israel standing on the banks sang the Song of Moses. Now if you haven’t been taught anything of tradition, would you think there was any chance that instead of a battle in the future, John is talking about maybe some kind of battle that went on in the past?

We are coming to a great transition here at the end of chapter fourteen and fifteen begins the end of the trumpet section and the beginning of the vial section. The trumpets are clear sounding words. The trumpets are clear sounding words concerning what Jesus did and what that mean’s to you.

Maturity comes from finding out who you are in Christ. When did you get who you are in Christ? You got who you are in Christ, the moment you came out of Egypt.

This is the end of the trumpet’s section in the book of Revelation. Trumpets is the first feast, in the Feast of Tabernacles. They blow the trumpet on the first day of the seventh month. Paul says, how can we prepare for the battle unless there is a clear sounding word. Trumpets denote a clear sounding word. When you come to understand all that Father God is saying, it will be an understanding of all that God wants us to know about what happened to us the very moment you were born again.

When you were born again you were made complete in Christ. Growing up in Christ, every thing in the kingdom is opposite of when we were in the world. When we start a race in the world we start at the beginning and run to the end. In Christ you start at the end and go back to the beginning to find out how you got there. Growing up in Him, you start complete.

If this has pictured the Tabernacle of Moses and you’re working your way back to whatever the Brazen Altar speaks of and the Brazen Laver speaks of. The Brazen Altar speaks of the cross, so you pass the cross, the Brazen Laver is made of the looking glasses of the women. It’s a mirror so you’ve got the mirror of the Word, you’ve become a Word person.

Then you get on into the Holy Place and you’ve got the Golden candle stick which represents being filled with the Spirit, you’ve got bread and wine on the Table of Show bread. That represents feeding on our communing with the Lord.

Then you have worship and praise represented by the Golden Alter of Incense, which Psalm 141 tells us that’s our praise so you’re learning to praise.

Then all of a sudden you pass the veil and you find the Mercy Seat there and the Mercy Seat is Jesus. Romans chapter three says He is our propitiation, Hebrews uses the same word is our "mercy seat", Jesus is our Mercy Seat. There are also Cherubim’s in union with the Mercy Seat. There is no where in Scripture that tells us the Cherubim’s are Angels.

The first mention of Cherubim’s outside of the Garden of Eden, it says, Cherubim’s were in the Mercy Seat, and Angels are not in Christ. Cherubim’s were of the Mercy Seat, Angels are not of Christ. Cherubim’s looked toward the Mercy Seat. They’re looking toward Him always, we should be.

Cherubim’s represent in Christed ones family. I said all that, to say this, when you get back in the Most Holy Place you’re going to see a Mercy Seat with Cherubim’s in it. Which just simple means, you finally come to realize that you’ve been in Him all along and He can now flow out of you and on you.

It’s not something that happens, it’s something you find out happened a long time ago. You are already complete in Him. The only place you are incomplete, is between your ears. Your spirit is complete. Your spirit is saved, your soul is being saved. Your soul is your mind, your will, your emotions, your thinking facilities.

Three times in the New Testament, speaking to believers, the Lord speaks about the salvation of our souls, He is speaking to people who are already spiritually born again. We say how many souls got saved in that revival? Well really no souls got saved, spirits got reborn. Father God begins from that reborn experience, to save the soul.

The soul in the Greek is always feminine every time. David said, "my soul shall make her boast in the Lord." The spirit is always masculine. "The hidden man of the heart." Do you want to give birth to Christ in your life? That’s going to happen when the man and the woman get together and produces the nature of Christ. See it’s not this old man that’s given me trouble, it’s the old woman that gives me trouble. Can you relate to that? We have a new man and an old woman; we have a new man and an old way of thinking. You are a new creature but you think like an old creature.

So God from the point of time, when you gave your heart to Him, begins to work on you for the purpose of renewing your mind or the saving of your soul. He is doing that so you think born again thoughts. You think new creation thoughts.

When you get born again, the woman between your ears is a harlot. Do you understand that when you get born again nothing happens to your mind instantly? You’re mind has been receiving thoughts from different men all of it’s life, just receiving seed from all kinds of men. Is that plain enough for you?

Individually speaking, there is a harlot in the book of Revelation. You know what she says in Revelation eighteen? Let me show you a key to finding out if you soul is saved.

7 How much she hath glorified herself, (A saved soul doesn’t glorify herself.) and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

That is what mystery confusion says family. What does it mean if you’re not a widow? It means that you believe that your first husband didn’t die. Who was this old woman’s first husband, old man, old Adam?

See, this woman was married to the old man at the beginning, but when we made Jesus Christ Lord of our life, this man died, but she doesn’t know it.

So what’s going to get your mind, your soul saved, the Word of God? See this is where double mindedness comes in. We teach about the cross all the time. People want us to teach about the resurrection more and they will accuse us of being a death preacher. We are not death preachers we are life preachers. The only way to release the life of God in you, family, is to show you the death of Christ was your death and that got rid of who you used to be.

See, if you have a woman and her first husband died and she doesn’t know how he died, or if she won’t accept it. The answer is not showing her another husband. This is what has been done. We try to tell people who they are in Christ by showing them the resurrected Christ. That causes them to try to be "like Him" in their efforts. If you don’t show the church how the old man, the first husband died, then you have tremendous confusion. As long as there is two men between your ears, you’re in confusion.

Let's look at some people’s favorite Scripture to deal with divorce and by the way, it has nothing to do with natural marriage. There is a harlot in Revelation and it hinders spiritual growth. She is found right in the middle of the book. In seventeen and eighteen she gets destroyed and in nineteen there is a bride that shows up, a virgin bride. We serve an awesome God, by the end of the book He says, "behold I make all things new." He didn’t say, I make all new things, He makes "all things new."

What’s the difference, well you take an old table and paint it and make it look new but it is not new. The only way you can make something new is to take the old out. God says, "behold I make all things new." He takes the old out. How did He make your spirit new, He removed the old? How is He going to make your mind new, He is going to remove the harlot? Remove that old way of thinking, renews your mind. Then when this new man and new woman gets on the same track, the only thing left is your body. Family your body will be changed, you will just do things naturally.

The law is given, until the one to whom the promise is made shows up. When Jesus shows up in your life you won’t have to have a law. People come to hear this message because they love this. Sometimes they have problems in their lives and they misunderstand what we are preaching. They will make comments like, "well I’m just going to keep doing this or that until the Jesus in me shows up and doesn’t do it."

No, there is a law. The law says, "thou shall not" until the One in you shows up then He won’t. You can’t do it either way. We want to grow up to when the Christ within you rises up, there won’t need to be a law. Nobody will have to tell you what to do; you just won’t do wrong things, your wants will change.

Paul is not talking about marriage here at all. How do we know that, because he says in verse four?

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

He is talking about being married to Christ here.

Romans 7:3-4

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

We are no longer married to the old man, (Adam), we are married to Christ. Family do you understand where the water from the Jordan River in Joshua chapter three came from? If you read Joshua chapter three you will see that when the water backed up it backed up to a city called Adam. That is found in Joshua 3:16.

What is keeping us from our Promise Land family? It’s that which comes from Adam. You know how they crossed over? They didn’t just jump in the water. There had to be a priesthood raised up and they carried the ark which is a picture of Jesus Christ. In the next chapter it’s called the Ark of the Lord.

They took this, which represented Jesus, and they stepped in the brink and the waters backed up and the priest went into the bed of the river and stopped until all three million or so of those people passed over. Hear what we are saying today. This priesthood ministry will take Jesus into the depths of His suffering and hold that before the people until people will walk on over. You need to see what Jesus suffered, you need to see how your old man died in Him.

I think there are too many people wanting to jump up on the bank of the other side when Father God needs a priesthood who is willing to hold the death of Christ before people so that they can. God wanted them to stay at the bank of the Jordan and look at the problem, look at the river. See that you need Him.

Family what’s coming out of Adam, is at flood stage today spiritually and it’s manifested in the flesh. You just watch the news and you will see that.

God's purpose for man is not just to get you forgiven of sin, but He wants a people in His own image, spirit, soul and body. When we consider what it’s going to take to get that done, we see flood stage everywhere. Why did God tell them to stay there for a day?

In the faith message we would have told the Lord we need to go back up into the hills, we do not need to look at this, it’s affecting us. We don’t have the faith to get across there. God would have said, no stay right here. I’m sure they considered building a bridge, building a tunnel or something. After three days they came to the end of all good ideas and they said, "God we can’t do this." That’s where God wants us to get.

Where He is taking us we can’t do it. It won’t be another long revival or program. Where God wants to take you, you can’t get there. It’s Christ in you that will get there. See, to see you can’t do something is not a revelation of Christ, it’s a revelation of you. Once you see a revelation of you, you are ready for a revelation of Christ. Sometimes we think too highly of ourselves and we can’t see Christ then. You cannot make yourself who God says your becoming.

The church has come up with multitude of programs when we need to say put your fanny in this seat and listen, we are going to teach you what happened to Jesus from the cross to the throne until you get it, until change takes place.

We are just showing you here, how John writes the book of revelation. If you were reading this book in that day, or if you knew your Bible, you would think, well, this is when the horses were drowned in the Red Sea and they were shouting the victory that the Lord had won.

The message was, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Impossible circumstance but they shouted the victory and gave Him glory. There is something different about this revelation.

2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass (Red Sea) mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Now it says, "the song of the Lamb!" Great and marvelous are Thy works family. We haven’t done anything that we haven’t been given equipment to do. It’s all Him doing in us. See if God didn’t anoint Billy Graham to do what he has done, he would not have done any of it. We admire what he has done, but God gets the glory for it.

Revelation one, I want to show you something before we close. Remember the word revelation means to uncover, to reveal to disclose Jesus Christ. Now where is Jesus Christ veiled today, within the church? He is in us family. We talk about Him but He needs to be seen. The Greeks are still crying, "we would see Jesus, we’ve heard what you have said, show us Jesus." He needs to be unveiled and allowed to flow from within to without and upon.

The cry of my heart is, Jesus be a teacher through me today, not let them see me. If Jesus the teacher shows up, you are going to learn something.

Trumpets speak of voices family.

Where was the golden candlestick located in the Tabernacle of Moses, in the Holy Place? By knowing this you can locate what John was doing when he heard that trumpet.

If he turned and heard that trumpet behind him and he was looking at the candlestick he had to be standing at the table of showbread on the Lord's day communing with the Lord. That’s where we all should be and feeding upon this which Paul said, "by this you do show the Lord's death until He comes."

We’ve had too many voices in the church world today and people turned to see the voice and they didn’t see anything. What do people see when we trumpet a clear sounding word to Jesus and they turn to see whom that word was coming and they don’t see Jesus.

We are allowing the Teacher of the church to show you the spirit of the book of Revelation. Here are seven golden candlesticks and in Exodus twenty-five they were almond trees. There were no measurements. We don’t know how tall they were. That shows us there is no limit to the light God can bring. The golden candlesticks were made in the fashion of seven almond trees and there was a voice coming out of those trees.

Where is the first time a voice comes from trees? In the Garden of Eden and John saw a garden and there was a voice coming out of it.

You go back to the garden and find out what that voice said in the beginning. That voice said, "Adam where are you?" The book of Revelation is a book about locating Adam in the midst of God's garden for the purpose for getting him out.

If you can get Adam out of your garden, the only thing that’s left is Christ. The judgments poured out on that book, are the judgments poured out on Adam. Jesus reveals Himself in the first of that book, "I am the faithful witness." Did you know there is a false witness in the book of Revelation? Jesus said, "I’m the first born from the dead." Did you know there was a false first born, there was someone who was dead and came alive? Did you know that he said, "I’m the king of the prince of the earth?" The harlot calls herself the ruler of the prince of the earth.

The book of Revelation reveals a lot of stuff in the city that doesn’t belong there. It’s the same principal as the promise land. The promise land belonged to the children of Israel.

They didn’t have to add anything to it, they had to get rid of stuff that was in there, but the older crowd, the one’s who were stuck in a different era refused to do it. There were some giants and the giants had to go. You don’t need anymore of Jesus you need less of you. There are some giants that are between our ears that still remain and they must go.

The book of Revelation is the unveiling of Christ, the removing of things so that only He remains.