'Rightly Dividing the Word'
Jewish Temple of God
When you have a good understanding of the Jewish temple of God, which was a shadow of the present spiritual temple of God, which is our physical bodies, then many truth will be revealed.
1. Blood of Jesus at the bronze altar is for the salvation of men, with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of redemption.
2. Water of Jesus at the bronze laver represented the pure word of God used in the sanctification of the wickedness of the old men. It is also used for the water baptism into His death, the dead cannot sin anymore having overcome the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye and the pride of life.
3. The Tabernacle was the shadow of the kingdom of God and the future New Jerusalem.
1st Birth - Born of the Flesh
I Cor 15:38-39 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
Since God had created every living thing on earth to be born in the flesh from its own kind, so every human being must be born in the flesh from his human mother's womb.
It was predestined before the foundation of the world that the Messiah would come to earth to save depraved man from the sins and abominations. So the Word was made flesh in that the Son of God was born of a woman.
Gal 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
The New Spirit
Jer 31:31,34b "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— ...For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
It was prophesied that out of God's grace, He would make a new covenant with the Jews so that their sins would be forgiven and that He will also give them a new Spirit and a new heart so that they can keep the Mosaic law.
2nd Birth - Born of the Spirit
John 3:6-7 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'"
Whoever believes Jesus is the Messiah and accepts the gospel of Christ, he is a believer. This is the salvation at the bronze altar.
Immediately, our Lord Jesus will give him the Holy Spirit as the seal of redemption. He is a human being, not only born of the flesh, but also born of the Spirit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in him.
As a Christian, he will be able to see and understand from the Bible the truth in the kingdom of God.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Born of Water
Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
At the bronze laver, the Christian is sanctified by the pure water, which is the word of God.
A Christian is buried when he is water baptized into the death of Jesus. When he comes out of the water (having been born of water) with his soul purified he is a new man, who walks in sincere love for one another.
I Pet 1:22-23 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
Can Enter the kingdom of God
John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
Having been born of the Spirit (salvation by grace) and born of water (old man crucified), this saint, is worthy enough to enter into the kingdom of God (Tabernacle of God
