Rabbi Schneider continues the Tabernacle series by stepping into the Holy Place and unpacking the Golden Menorah as the only source of light inside God’s dwelling.
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00:00:00 The Prophetic Blueprint of the Tabernacle
The Holy Spirit is not the only light. What do I mean by that? It sounds contradictory to everything I’ve been saying. What I mean by that, beloved, is that there are many false lights. God bless you today. I send my love and shalom here from the studio of Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Father, we bless you today. We worship you today. Father, I thank you for all my holy brothers and sisters as we gather around looking to you as we study your word. In Yeshua’s name, amen. And amen. We’re going deep into the pages of the Torah and we’re looking at this prophetic blueprint that God gave to Moshe, to Moses in the wilderness. He called it a place where he was going to meet with his people. He said to Israel through Moses in Exodus 25, Moses, I want you to build me this sanctuary and you need to build it exactly according to the pattern that I’m showing you. I want you to hear me. Every piece of furniture in the Mishkan, in the tabernacle, every color, it all meant something as it relates to being able to be immersed in the divine presence. You see, the tabernacle gives us an ancient prophetic blueprint for how to experience God’s divine Shekinah glory. In fact, as I said on a previous episode in this series, Once the tabernacle was erected, the glory of the Lord, the Shekinah power of God’s presence filled the tabernacle so that Moses and Aaron couldn’t even stand because of the weight of what had happened. And from that day forward for 40 years, the visible manifestation of God’s presence was seen by all of Israel because the power of the Lord manifested above the tabernacle as a glory cloud in the daytime. And then as the sun began to set, the cloud would turn into a fire so they’d be able to see the fire hovering over the tabernacle by night. So there’s something about this blueprint that we need to get. It’s the connection. If we want to walk with God, If we wanna have a true intimate relationship with him, we have to understand the principles that are prophetically communicated to us in the tabernacle. Now, I’ve already preached several episodes in this series. I’m not gonna go back and review. If you’re interested, you can get my book called The Mystery of the Tabernacle. We’re gonna press on now. We’re gonna go into some brand new material. We’re in the tabernacle now, which I covered on the previous episodes. Now that we’re in the tabernacle, We’re going to take a look at the pieces of furniture that are actually inside the holy place. There were three divine pieces of furniture inside the holy place. There was the golden menorah, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense. So we’re going to be looking at each one of those. We’re going to begin by looking at the golden menorah. Now, the golden menorah was made from one pure piece of gold that had been hammered out to form seven different branches. Let me say it again, because I want you to get this point. The golden menorah in the tabernacle was the source of light inside the holy place. But the branches that were part of the menorah were not pieces that had been connected to each other. In other words, it wasn’t like you had a base and then on top of the base, you put the stand, and then on top of the stand, you attach this branch, then you attach this branch, then you attach that branch. It wasn’t piecemeal together like that. Instead, beloved, the Lord gave a specific command to Moses that it needed to be made from one pure piece of gold that was then hammered out to form seven different branches. Now, what’s important about this? It’s important because the golden menorah is a prophetic symbol of the Ruach HaKadosh. One Spirit with seven flames. We read about this in the book of Revelation. We read about the seven spirits that are before God’s throne. What are the seven spirits that are before God’s throne? The Holy Spirit in all His different emanations. It’s the same Spirit that’s being communicated to us in seven different colors, so to speak. In other words, the Holy Spirit is the spirit of wisdom. The Holy Spirit’s the spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit’s the spirit of divine joy and laughter. The Holy Spirit’s the spirit of comfort. The Holy Spirit’s the spirit of peace. The Holy Spirit’s the spirit of wisdom and revelation. It’s all from the same spirit. Just like a rainbow comes from one light, and then that white light is divided into different spectrums or different colors. And so the Holy Spirit is portrayed in the tabernacle that God commanded Moses to build 3,500 years ago. The Holy Spirit’s presence is communicated by this menorah. Now, I want you to consider this with me. Once the priest came out of the courtyard of the tabernacle and moved from the courtyard into the holy place, The holy place had no outside exposure. In other words, when the priest was in the courtyard where the brass laver was and the brazen altar was, that was outside. It was inside the general complex of the tabernacle. It was inside the fence, but we were not in the Holy of Holies. The brazen altar and the brass laver were in the perimeter, they were in the complex. But once you moved past the brazen altar and the brass laver, you then entered in to the holy place. And I covered the other pieces of furniture in my previous teaching, or again, go to my book, The Mystery of the Tabernacle. I want to go right now into the holy place though. Once you entered the holy place, there was no sun that you could see. There was no light that was coming into the holy place from the outside. Why? Because the holy place was completely encased. There was a roof over it. There were sides to it. There was no natural sunlight coming into it. You were in, an enclosed, private, intimate space that would have been dark except for the fact that the flames of the golden menorah penetrated the darkness in that place. So once the priest entered the holy place, he saw light and the light that he was seeing was the light from the golden menorah. Without the light of the menorah, there would have been no light in there whatsoever. Now think about this. Remember, the tabernacle or the mishkan is a prophetic shadow of the spiritual world. And what this tells us is once the priest was inside God’s space, because the tabernacle is God’s space, that’s why it was built, the Lord said in Exodus 25 to Moses, I want to dwell with you I want to dwell among the sons of Israel, therefore build me this space, this tabernacle. So the tabernacle is the meeting place where mankind meets with God and enters God’s presence. What happened in the holy place? The only light that the priest, get this now, the only light that the priest could rely on was the light from the golden menorah, the light from those seven flames. He couldn’t rely on the light from the outer world. He couldn’t rely on the natural sun. He relied only on this sacred object, this holy menorah. What does this tell us? What’s the point? Well, let me ask you, who are you relying on for understanding? Are you relying on the world? Are you relying on higher education? Are you relying on the government? Are you relying on medicine? Are you relying on AI? The priest wasn’t. He relied only on the light of the golden menorah. If we’re gonna enter into the sacred space in the Spirit, beloved, we need to be solely dependent on the light and the revelation that we receive from God’s Holy Spirit. If you’re looking to the world, if you’re more connected to the outside than you are to God’s Spirit to guide you in life, you will fall and you will fail and you will stumble in the darkness.
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I want you to hear me when I say to you, the Holy Spirit is not the only light. What do I mean by that? It sounds contradictory to everything I’ve been saying. What do I mean when I say the Holy Spirit is not the only light? What I mean by that, beloved, is that there are many false lights. There are many false lights. I remember as a illustration, we’ll go deeper, but I remember going to Las Vegas years ago and I could not believe, I hated it. It was a city of artificial lights. I could not stand it. It was so weird. But the whole city was lit up. There are many lights in the world. Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. You can be relying on all types of things that appear to be real, that appear to be light, that promise satisfaction, that promise happiness, and all they do is lead to emptiness. Even in your relationships, what are you looking to? Maybe there’s somebody here you’re thinking about getting married or you want to get married. What are you looking for in a spouse? Are you just looking for somebody that looks good? That will not last long. See, that’s a false light. And so we need to cling, get that word cling. It’s called in Hebrew. We need to cling to God’s spirit. We need to be talking to God all the time. I’m going to get to that as we get to the altar of incense prayer. I just want to say that the tabernacle, the holy place, it’s a shadow of how to have intimacy with God. And the first thing that we learned was the priests relied only on one light. They relied on the light of the Spirit. Now, I know that you’ve heard this before. I know you’ve heard it before, but how do you do it? Well, first of all, we need to be willing to spend time alone with God. You see, the Bible tells us that Jesus oftentimes went into a lonely mountain. to see God’s face. If we’re gonna learn to be led by God’s Spirit, which is symbolized by the light of the menorah in the tabernacle, if we’re gonna be able to see into the light, the true light, we have to pay the price of spending time alone with God. Otherwise, we’ll never be able to perceive the Spirit the way that God wants us to perceive Him. The Scripture says, be still. and know that I am God. Again, Jesus went to a lonely place to spend time with the Father. If you’re always surrounded by things that are artificial crutches that just feed your flesh to make you more comfortable, you’ll never learn how to depend on the Holy Spirit. oh i could go on and on about this but i just simply want to say that many of you know basic christian doctrine you understand the basic tenets of the cross and salvation but some of you that are listening to my voice right now you’ve never really developed an intimate relationship with god by his spirit You’ve been taught the Bible stories. You’ve memorized some scripture, and that’s good. It’s a foundation, so necessary, but you’ve never really learned how to rely on the Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKadosh that is here with us, my beloved brothers and sisters, right now. The Father’s in heaven, Jesus is in heaven, but the Spirit’s been given to us on the earth. So I wanna ask you, are you constantly talking to God by His Spirit right now? Become more intimate with Him than you are with anybody else on the planet. Talk with Him about everything. I’m gonna get to that in a few minutes. God’s Spirit’s here. Begin to look to Him for wisdom and revelation. Ask yourself when you wake up in the morning, did I dream anything last night? Because the Bible tells us in Acts 2 and Joel 2 that when the Lord pours forth His Spirit, which was fulfilled at Pentecost in Acts 2, that the result of that is that we’re going to be led by the Spirit. The Scripture says these that are being led by the Spirit, these are the sons and the daughters of God. So Peter in Acts 2, once the Spirit was poured out, said this is what was prophesied, by the prophet Yoel, or Joel, that in the last days, saith the Lord, I will pour forth my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters will therefore be able to speak by the inspiration of the Spirit, because he lives in us now and is around us. And he says the Spirit’s going to speak to us, get this, in visions, Peter said, and dreams. So when you wake up in the morning, understand that because God’s Spirit has been given to us, and He is speaking to us, and we want to be able to perceive the light of the Spirit, we need to expect God to be communicating with us in our sleep at night. Because when we sleep at night, my beloved and holy brothers and sisters, we enter into a space where we’re not as connected to the material world. We’re lingering between the material and the supernatural in our sleep. And it’s oftentimes in that place where we’re between two worlds when we’re sleeping, when God will speak to us. And so don’t just write off when you wake up in the morning and say, oh, that was just a dream. Maybe it was just a dream, maybe it was the food you ate, maybe it was just your mind processing whatever stimuli you’ve encountered in the world, maybe, oftentimes. But there are times, however, when what you dreamed last night was the Spirit of the Lord trying to communicate to you. That’s why Elihu in the book of Job said this, the Lord speaks once, yea, twice when no one’s listening, when man is fast asleep lying in his bed.” In other words, God is trying to speak to His children when they’re sleeping because they can receive a message from Him when they’re sleeping in a way that sometimes they can’t when they’re awake. And so we need to give God the honor and the due and treat Him as holy and say, Lord, did I dream anything last night? Then write it down and say, Lord, was there anything here? Is there a message for me? And even sometimes the dreams, when they feel bad, there still might be a message for you that God is wanting to show you, to prepare you to be a warrior and to be successful. So we have the light of the Holy Spirit. We need to be clinging to this light, not just relying on the natural world, not just by relying on what the world is telling us. We need to want God bad enough that we’re willing to pay the price to listen to His voice, to hear Him, to spend time alone, say, Father, help me to become more aware of Your presence. And that light of the holy golden menorah in the tabernacle, get this now, beloved church, He’s in you. He’s in me. We’ve been given the gift of the holy light. There’s a spirit of light and life in you, but are you so in touch with what’s outside that you’re not able to be in touch with what’s inside you? Christ in you. the hope of glory. So let’s learn how to live by the holy light of the golden menorah, which symbolizes God’s sacred and holy spirit. Let’s be willing to be separate. Let’s not be conformed to the present age or to the world. Let’s say, Lord, I believe I’m different. I believe you chose me out of the world. I believe that You’ve given me ears to hear to be led by You. And understand, beloved brother and sister, if you’re willing to accept this call and accept this challenge, that sometimes you’re going to have to go alone with God, just like Abraham did, because straight and narrow is the way that leads to life. And just a few, Jesus said, will find it. I want you to know, I hear Yeshua right now saying, He loves you. He is calling to you. He is knocking at the door of your heart right now. He’s asked you to come out from the world, to be separate unto Him. And so let’s just end today’s broadcast by praying together. Father, we want hearts that are sensitive to you. Holy Spirit, we repent for not putting you first. We want to live by your light. Father, we ask you to help us to cut off everything that’s preventing us from hearing you and seeing your light and following you in obedience in Yeshua’s name. I want to ask you to think about something carefully with me. That which is born, this is what Yeshua said. He said, that which is born of flesh is flesh. and that which is born of spirit is spirit. Paul, in his writings, goes on to talk about the difference between the nature of the flesh versus the nature of the spirit. Now, one of the natures of the flesh is that the flesh, beloved ones, I think we can all identify, is selfish. I mean, for example, when we eat food, do we eat for ourselves or somebody else? The flesh is by nature selfish, whereas the spirit is by nature generous and giving. And if we’re not careful, sometimes we can operate as takers in the flesh and not be a blessing to other people. I just want to simply say to you, beloved, we depend on you to continue to reach the world with the gospel. If this ministry is being a blessing to you, I want to ask you to open up your heart in the spirit, be generous, and sow financially into the ministry, because we’re to support those ministries that are doing good and blessing us.
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In the book of Numbers chapter six, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, when you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartations of the Lord’s blessings.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.
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