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Subject 11-1 : The Tabernacle
[11-3] The Gate of the Outer Court of the Tabernacle (Exodus 27:9-19)
(Exodus 27:9-19)
9 You shall also make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side there shall be hangings for the court made of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.
10 And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver.
11 Likewise along the length of the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.
12 And along the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.
13 The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.
14 The hangings on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
15 And on the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
16 For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver. It shall have four pillars and four sockets.
17 All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.
18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, made of fine woven linen, and its sockets of bronze.
19 All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.
The words in Exodus 27:9-19 speak about the gate of the outer court of the tabernacle.
In reality, if the length of the outer court of the tabernacle is 100 cubits, the total length would be 45 meters.
According to the Bible, people in ancient times defined one cubit as the distance from an adult’s elbow to the tip of the fingers. Therefore, the length of the south side of the tabernacle is 45 meters, and the east side is 22.5 meters. The opposite north side is 45 meters, and the west side is 22.5 meters.
To connect these, a total of 60 wooden pillars were used for the tabernacle.
The outer court of the tabernacle in reality is reminiscent of a sheepfold. In fact, Jesus, who is our Savior, is the gate of God’s sheep and also the shepherd of the sheep. When we think of the pegs driven into the pasture, we are reminded of the Messiah, who is both the gate and the shepherd.
In reality, the shepherd builds a pen by driving pegs to protect the sheep, creates a gate there, and protects the sheep through that gate. The shepherd not only becomes familiar with the sheep through the gate but also protects them.
In reality, through the gate for the sheep, the non-sheep are separated and driven out. The shepherd distinguishes between sheep and wolves. Therefore, the sheep need a shepherd.
However, in reality, among the sheep, there may be those who reject the shepherd’s guidance. Such sheep are not only in danger but also consider cliff paths as beautiful and good roads, entering the path of death without any doubt. This is because they refuse to listen to the shepherd’s voice and reject His guidance.
In reality, the sheep are not only preserved in life by the shepherd but also feed on good feed and live their lives beautifully. In truth, our Shepherd is Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
What Are the Dimensions of the Tabernacle Court?
The tabernacle court is 50 meters in length and 25 meters in width. The tabernacle court is surrounded by 60 pillars on all sides, and on the east side, there is a gate 10 meters wide. The height of the pillars is 2.5 meters, and the gate of the tabernacle court is made of a curtain.
The material for the gate of the tabernacle court is woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen. God commanded that the gate of the tabernacle court be woven with these four threads: blue, purple, scarlet, and fine white linen.
In this text, I would like to talk about the spiritual meaning hidden in the materials used for the gate of the tabernacle court.
God spoke to the Israelites through Moses, commanding them to build the tabernacle.
Why did God command them to build the tabernacle?
The tabernacle is the dwelling place of God, and it was the place where people’s sins were washed away. In other words, God commanded the tabernacle to be built to remove the sins of the Israelites and make them His children.
God specified the dimensions and materials for building the tabernacle. Therefore, no random materials could be used to build the tabernacle; only those designated by God were permitted.
There are three gates in the tabernacle: the gate of the court, the gate of the holy place, and the gate of the Most Holy. For all these gates, God commanded that they be woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
The gates of the tabernacle were made of curtains, and all of them were crafted using blue, purple, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
The sockets supporting the pillars of the tabernacle court fence were of bronze, and the coverings of the pillars were of silver. White curtains were hung on the pillars, and there were silver bands to hold the pillars.
When you open the gate of the tabernacle court and enter, there is the altar of burnt offering and the laver.
After passing the altar of burnt offering and the laver, there appears another gate made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, which is the gate entering into the holy place.
When you open that gate and enter, there is the sanctuary with the lampstands, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense.
And when you open the gate of the Most Holy made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen and enter, there appears the Most Holy where God dwells, and inside it there is the ark and the mercy seat, which is the lid covering the ark where God bestows grace.
The tabernacle consisting of the holy place and the Most Holy is covered by four layers of coverings. The bottom covering is woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, above it is a covering made of goats’ hair, above that is a covering made of ram skins dyed red, and on the outside is a covering made of sea otter skins.
In the tabernacle, the priests offered sacrifices for the Israelites.
The Israelites brought sacrificial offerings without blemish to the tabernacle according to the sacrificial law that God had established, laid hands on the head of the offering to transfer their sins, cut its throat, and received its blood.
Then they gave the blood to the priest, and the priest took the blood and applied it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering, poured the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, and burned the fat of the sacrifice on the altar of burnt offering.
God received this sacrifice and remitted the sins of the people.
The high priest offered sacrifices in the tabernacle once a year for the Israelites, enabling them to receive the remission of sin for one year’s worth of sins.
Thus, there were various sacrificial laws for offering sacrifices in the tabernacle, but only one theme of the tabernacle is Jesus Christ. Everything in the tabernacle speaks of Jesus Christ.
The gate of the tabernacle court was made by embroidering blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, and its length was 10 meters.
Therefore, to make the gate of the tabernacle court, these four threads were woven into a 10-meter-long fine linen curtain.
They embroidered with blue thread, then with purple thread, then with scarlet thread, and then with white thread throughout the 2.5-meter height, creating a thick and strong curtain like a carpet that was 2.5 meters in height.
This 10-meter curtain woven to a height of 2.5 meters was hung on the four pillars of the tabernacle court on the east side.
So when people entered into the tabernacle court, they had to lift up the carpet-like curtain and enter.
The gate of the tabernacle court is not made of wood like other ordinary gates. The pillars are made of wood, but the gate attached to those pillars was a curtain made by embroidering blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
You may have seen when a circus troupe comes to perform, they temporarily set up tents and make gates with thick cloth. Because the gate of the tabernacle court is thick cloth like such circus tent gates, one had to grab one corner of the curtain made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, lift it up, and then enter, not enter by pushing or pulling a rigid gate.
This applies not only to the gate in the court of the tabernacle but also to the gate of the holy place and the veil of the Most Holy in the tabernacle.
Why did God command that all three gates—the gate of the tabernacle court, the gate of the holy place, and the gate of the Most Holy—be made by weaving them with four colored threads: blue, purple, and scarlet thread and finely woven linen?
We must clearly know God’s will regarding what God’s intention was in commanding them to be made this way.
Looking at Hebrews, it says that all the good things of the Old Testament are shadows of Jesus Christ. Likewise, the gate of the tabernacle court is closely related to the baptism and crucifixion that Jesus Christ received and His identity.
Therefore, when we look at the Old Testament and do not understand it well, we can look at the New Testament and know it.
When we cannot see the substance, it is difficult to understand its shadow, but when we see the substance, we come to know, “Ah, this was that.”
We must accurately know who the Savior of sinners that God prepared from the Old Testament is, know Jesus Christ who became the substance of the tabernacle, and believe the fact that His ministry saved us from all sins.
Then who is the One who is the substance of the tabernacle and the Savior of sinners? It is Jesus Christ.
If we examine how our Savior Jesus Christ came to this earth and how He saved us from sin, we will know that the truth that He saved sinners from sin with blue, purple, and scarlet thread is without error.
To know the ministry of salvation that Jesus accomplished to save sinners, it is most important to know and believe the truth manifested in the colors used for the gate of the tabernacle court.
The first thing to know when entering the tabernacle is that the gate of the tabernacle court is made of threads of four colors.
And if we know the secret about this gate, we can clearly know all about the ministry of Jesus Christ.
And by looking at the curtain woven with these four colored threads, we can clearly know how we should know and believe in Jesus, and what kind of faith is believing wrongly.
Jesus Christ, the Substance of Salvation
Let us look at Matthew 1:21-23. ‘And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”’ The words of Matthew begin with “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.”
Jesus Christ was born as a descendant of Abraham and David, belonging to the tribe of Judah, that is, the royal family, according to His fleshly lineage.
When Jesus Christ was conceived in Mary’s womb, an angel appeared and said, ‘And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”’ Thus revealing that He is Jesus the Savior.
This passage quotes from Isaiah 7:14, which was prophesied through the prophet Isaiah 700 years before Jesus Christ was born on this earth. “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.”
God would come in the form of a man to dwell with us, and He would become our Savior. He prophesied that He would be born on this earth to save His people from their sins.
Just as the prophet Isaiah prophesied that Jesus Christ would be born on this earth, Jesus Christ came to this earth.
He was conceived in Mary’s womb by the Holy Spirit, and before He was born, He spoke to Mary through an angel in this way.
Jesus Christ was born on this earth in a fleshly body to save His people in this world from their sins, and when He became thirty years old, He began His ministry of salvation to save us from sin.
Jesus Christ Indicated the Tabernacle Gate through Four Colors
The colors of the threads are blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen (white cloth). These four colored threads were used for the tabernacle gate.
This spoke of the four ministries that the Messiah had to accomplish by coming to this earth to save the spiritual Israelites from their sins and make them God’s people without sin.
If we truly know that Jesus came to us as our Savior through four ministries, we believe in that Savior and have all our sins washed away. And it is certain truth that we will live for the spreading of the gospel of water and the Spirit for the rest of our lives and go to heaven because of that faith.
Therefore, anyone must actually know and believe this word of truth that Jesus Christ the Messiah came with blue, purple, and scarlet thread to save us from all sins.
Do you want to believe through the four ministries that the Savior performs and receive the remission of sin? Then you must learn about the tabernacle.
Those who actually know these four ministries that Jesus performed will obtain the removal of sin through blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen and will actually be born again as righteous people.
The nation of Israel should have looked at the gate woven with four colored threads shown in the tabernacle gate and believed that the Messiah would come to this world in the future and fulfill these four ministries.
The Truth That Sinners Must Believe
When we look at the white fine linen cloth hung in the tabernacle court, we come to realize how holy God is and would have known that we ourselves needed a Savior.
In reality, all people who know God’s holiness could not help but say this. “God, I admit that I am such a lump of sin that I have no choice but to go to hell because of my sins.”
When a person sees the white cloth hung on the tabernacle pillars, its cleanliness and overwhelming presence are so intense that they come to realize sin in their hearts and know that they are too inappropriate to live with God.
Those whose hearts are not right will have their sins exposed whenever they come before God. Therefore, those who do not come before God came to avoid God for fear that their sins would be exposed.
However, for people who actually have such sins, if they know the fact that purple, that is, their Messiah, solved all those sins with blue thread and scarlet thread, they will be able to come before God with great assurance of salvation and hope in their hearts.
The four truths manifested in the tabernacle gate spoke of the Savior Jesus Christ coming to this earth in human flesh, bearing all the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John, and shedding His blood by being crucified.
Therefore, those who rightly know and believe the truth of the four colors used in the tabernacle gate through the gospel of water and the Spirit will receive eternal remission of sin.
Jesus the Messiah’s being baptized and crucified is the truth that completely saved us from all sins through baptism and the blood of the cross, which is the same salvation as the four colors of the tabernacle gate.
The blue, purple, and scarlet thread and finely twined linen shown in the Old Testament tabernacle gate actually represented the ministry of the Messiah who saves from all the sins of sinners.
The truth of salvation that God gave to mankind is manifested in blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and finely twined linen.
Those who actually have sin in their hearts receive the remission of all their sins by believing in the truth of salvation manifested in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Countless religions have emerged in this world. All those worldly religions create doctrines that make people strive to reach holiness that humans think up by themselves.
However, no one can receive the washing away of sins from God through worldly religions.
The reason is that they do not know that they themselves are lumps of sin and they believed in doctrines they created of salvation with their own thoughts.
Because every person is a lump of sin who cannot become holy by themselves, no matter how much they try to eliminate their sinful nature, they cannot become holy.
Therefore, all people absolutely need a Savior, that is, Jesus, who delivers them from all sins.
We must realize the fact that there is no true Savior for mankind except Jesus Christ, this one Savior.
Because it is unacceptable according to God’s law for sinners to enter God’s house, they had to know and believe the truth that the Messiah actually removed our sins.
The gospel that removed people’s sins once and for all is the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Faith that believes in the doctrines of worldly religions will be judged for its sins in the future. The reason is that God is the epitome of holiness and the God of judgment.
The truth manifested in blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen was realized in the gospel of water and the Spirit in the New Testament era.
Have you ever read in the Bible that the tabernacle gate was made only with scarlet thread?
You must know that the tabernacle gate is woven with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen (white cloth), and from this moment on, you must believe in the truth of salvation manifested in the tabernacle gate.
God clearly commanded that the tabernacle gate be made by embroidering with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
However, many people mistakenly think that the tabernacle gate is woven only with red thread, and as a result, they could not realize the secret of the Lord’s four ministries. Therefore, even though they believed in Jesus, there was sin in their hearts.
Now know and believe that your sins have been removed through the ministry of blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
The Lord has completely saved you from all sins through the ministry of salvation accomplished with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. You must know the fact that He removed your sins through these four ministries. Faith that does not know this fact and does not make the salvation of the removal of sin through the ministry of these four threads as its standard is not complete faith.
Some people do not even know what the meaning of blue, purple, and scarlet thread used in the tabernacle gate is, yet they say the wrong thing that if you unconditionally believe in Jesus as Savior, you will be saved.
When we ask the leaders in Christianity about Jesus’ four ministries, we see that there are many who do not know. We can see that they believe only in the ministry of scarlet thread, and if they believe in one more thing, they believe in the ministry of purple thread.
However, the Lord completed the ministry of mankind’s salvation with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen. Therefore, we must believe that the Lord did the work of saving us through four ministries.
The tabernacle gate is made conspicuously so that it is easy to find. Therefore, anyone who has a heart to know the truth manifested in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen shown in the tabernacle gate can know and believe it.
How should you and I understand the truth of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen?
If you asked someone this question because you wanted to know the truth of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, you might hear this rebuke. “People shouldn’t try to know the Bible too deeply. That could lead you astray”, and you might be dismissed.
Therefore, many people might abandon their curiosity about blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. However, if you do not realize the four ministries of the Messiah manifested in the tabernacle gate, you must realize that you are one who will never meet the Messiah.
Those who are actually trying to meet the Messiah without realizing the role of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen are religious people who believe Christianity as a worldly religion within Christianity.
For us to enter into God’s house, we must properly know the four truths of salvation manifested in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen shown in the tabernacle court gate.
And by knowing that truth, we must also realize the salvation of the removal of sin that the Lord accomplished through the gospel of water and the Spirit in the New Testament era.
God actually commanded Moses to weave the curtain of the gate in the tabernacle court with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
Then what is the spiritual meaning of this word? Each color of blue thread, purple thread, and scarlet thread used in the tabernacle gate speaks of the ministry that Jesus worked to remove our sins.
Therefore, these four threads have a deep relationship with each other. So those who pay attention to and believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit can believe through Jesus’ four ministries, which are the eternal removal of sin.
Nevertheless, those who do not try to know and turn away from the truth of salvation manifested in the colors of blue, purple, and scarlet thread are expressing indifference toward the Messiah and become adversaries who oppose the Messiah.
In reality, many people are making Christianity one of the worldly religions while being indifferent to the truth manifested in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
If they think indifferently about Jesus’ four ministries, they become evidence of bearing the fruit of worldly religious people who oppose Jesus.
However, fortunately, there is still hope because there are still many in this world who are seeking the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Everyone, if you know the spiritual truth of the removal of sin manifested in the tabernacle gate, you can receive all the spiritual blessings concerning heaven.
In reality, because this faith is an essential process that must be known and believed to meet the Messiah, it must be reflected upon not just once but forever.
If you are truly a Christian, you must take interest in these four truths that are Jesus’ ministry.
Anyone who wants to enter into God’s house must offer praise to God by finding the truth revealed in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
The Messiah Who Came as the Fulfiller of Prophecy
God prophesied through His word that the Messiah would be born through a virgin’s body. “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son” (Isaiah 7:14). Just as the Old Testament prophesied that He would be born in Bethlehem of Judea (Micah 5:2), the Messiah came to that land.
The Messiah’s coming to this earth in human flesh was according to God’s word, as the fulfillment of the covenant to accomplish mankind’s salvation.
Then at what point in human history did the Messiah come? When was the time that Jesus Christ came to this earth?
It was during the time when Augustus (reigned B.C. 27-A.D. 14) ruled as the Roman emperor. Jesus came to this earth to be baptized by John and to be crucified and shed His blood on the cross, in order to deliver you and me from our sins and the judgment of sin.
When the nation of Israel became a Roman colony and Augustus was the emperor of Rome, Jesus came to this earth as mankind’s Savior.
Because the nation of Israel was a colony of the Roman nation, they had to follow Rome’s commands. At that time, Augustus issued the command, “Let the whole world be registered! Let the people of the nation of Israel return to their hometowns and all be registered in the census.” As soon as the emperor’s command was issued, the census began.
Because it was a census to count the number of the Israelites, all the Israelites had to go down to their places of origin. From that time, the Messiah Jesus Christ was working in the history of mankind.
Behold the Fulfillment of the Old Testament Word!
At that time, the Messiah was already conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary in the land of Judea.
This Mary was engaged to Joseph. Both of these people were from the house of Judah, and it was just as God had promised that He would continue to have kings born only through this tribe of Judah among the twelve tribes of Israel.
When the Roman emperor Augustus issued the command for the census registration, there was a full-term child in the womb of Mary, who belonged to the tribe of Judah.
Now the time was fully come for that child to be born, and just then, due to the emperor’s command, each person of Israel had to go to their own hometown and respond to the census.
Therefore, Mary, along with Joseph, was struggling to make her way to Bethlehem, her hometown, while being heavily pregnant.
While going on the way, Mary felt unbearable labor pains coming and had to immediately find a room to give birth to the baby. However, there was no room anywhere, and Mary and Joseph had to enter a place where the horses were kept.
When Joseph and Mary went up to Bethlehem to register for the census, at that time her days to give birth were fulfilled, and because there was no place to stay, she gave birth to baby Jesus in a place where animals were.
In A.D. 1, Jesus was born in a manger. Almighty God came to this earth in human flesh.
The stable where animals lived became the place where mankind’s Savior came. This speaks of Jesus being born there to become our Messiah, and all these events were planned works that God had planned from before the foundation of the world.
We can know that Jehovah God moves the history of mankind, but that He Himself would come to save mankind from sin was something difficult to dare imagine, and therefore God made it so that anyone could know that He Himself would humble Himself and be born on this earth in a lowly body to save mankind from sin.
Then why was He born in Bethlehem of all places? And why did He have to be born as baby Jesus in a stable? These questions may arise.
Also, why was it when the nation of Israel was a colony of the Roman nation? However, we soon come to know that this was done under a meticulous plan for Him to surely deliver His people from sin.
When Joseph and Mary were registering in their hometown, they had to present evidence that they were people of this hometown and accurately record their identity in the documents.
There had to be evidence that their family had lived in Bethlehem of Israel for generations in order to be registered in the census of the nation of Israel. Therefore, they revealed who all their ancestors were and recorded in the census register which family they belonged to and what number child they were in that family.
All of this could not be fabricated or omitted, so the identities of Joseph and Mary were accurately recorded in history, thereby making Jesus’ birth testified to in the history of mankind.
All these things were God’s work to fulfill the prophecies manifested in the Old Testament words.
Micah 5:2, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.” When they arrived at the town of Bethlehem and the time for delivery was fulfilled, the Savior was born into this world. This happened because God did so in order to fulfill the prophecies of the prophets.
I believe this shows God’s providence and the history of mankind according to the prophetic word to accomplish God’s work of removing mankind’s sins.
The fact that Jesus had to be born in the small town called Bethlehem was to fulfill the prophetic word of the Old Testament.
Already several hundred years before Jesus Christ was born in the town of Bethlehem in the land of Judea, God spoke the prophetic word through the prophet Micah. Looking at Micah 5:2, just as He promised, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.” And also the prophet Isaiah 700 years before the Lord came (the entire chapter of Isaiah 53) spoke that the Messiah would come in this manner to become the Savior of sinners.
According to the prophetic word that God spoke to the prophet Micah, Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, thus fulfilling that prophecy.
This prophecy was fulfilled as a historical fact when Mary and Joseph returned to their hometown for the census. This was God fulfilling His word by making it so that when Mary arrived in Bethlehem, the time had come and she had no choice but to give birth to the baby.
Here we come to see that God is the One who gives us prophetic words and fulfills them.
We can know that Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the prophetic truth represented by the “fine twined linen” used for the gate of the tabernacle, is the One who accomplished the providence of salvation by God to save humankind from sin.
Therefore, we can know that both the words of the Old Testament and the words of the New Testament are the Word of God.
We can know and believe the fact that the Messiah controls and moves all history on this entire universe and on the earth. Just as God created this entire universe, we can know that God thoroughly governs all people, all history, and even all environments and has shown this to us.
When baby Jesus came into this world and was born, there was no place for Him in the inn, so He had no choice but to be born in a stable where animals lived. This was God’s providence, and behind this were the prophetic words spoken through God’s servants.
And we can see that God accomplished His will by having Jesus Himself born in this town called Bethlehem in order to fulfill all the prophecies that God had prophesied through His servants.
Therefore, He showed us that nothing can be done according to anyone’s will unless God permits it.
God showed us and made us believe that He caused baby Jesus to be born there when Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem in order to fulfill the prophetic word that God Himself had directly spoken.
We must believe that the One who moves this universal history is God our Savior who delivered us from sin. This truth is the Word that shows us that God claims all things because He is the owner of all things.
The fact that Jesus was born as baby Messiah in this small town called Bethlehem proved that this event did not happen by chance, and that it was not artificially fabricated by manipulating the words of the Bible.
God directly spoke the Word, and God also directly accomplished this work through Jesus.
We must know and believe this. We must keep in mind and believe that our Messiah and our salvation are the truth fulfilled by blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
He showed us that our removal of sin is not accomplished by any chance of the world, but that salvation from our sins is accomplished by faith in the four ministries that Jesus performed for us.
Also, this shows that Christianity is not one of the world’s religions.
Usually, the founder of worldly religions are human beings, but Jesus our Savior, who is the head of Christianity, is God. This shows that the truth of Christianity starts from this fact.
God is testifying that the Christianity we believe in is not a worldly religion.
We can know and believe because all of this—that we truly receive the removal of sin by believing according to God’s will, in other words, that the Lord who is God gave us the gospel of water and the Spirit and we received the removal of sin—is based on facts.
We must know in our hearts and believe in our hearts that the removal of sin is completed by faith through fearing God and obeying God’s Word.
The birth of the Messiah on this earth was God the Father’s plan of salvation ordained from before the creation of the world for the salvation of mankind. Our salvation was completely planned within this.
This truth clearly made us know that it was the substance of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen that appeared at the gate of the tabernacle.
Therefore, we must know and believe the salvation that came through the gospel of water and the Spirit as our removal of sin.
Through this faith, you and I could be saved from all sins. We must believe that we are made perfect by the faith that believes in this truth, the Word of the gospel of water and the Spirit, and bow our heads in thanksgiving.
Jesus Christ, the Savior Who Saved Us from Our Sins with Blue, Purple, and Scarlet Thread and Fine Twined Linen
The ministry by which Jesus Christ saved sinners from sin consists of four things: blue thread (baptism), purple thread (Jesus is the King of kings, that is, God), scarlet thread (the blood of Jesus), and fine twined linen (the completion of salvation that saves all sinners from their sins through the gospel of the Word of the Old and New Testaments).
Jesus became the Savior precisely through blue thread (the baptism that Jesus received from John), purple thread (Jesus is the King of kings), scarlet thread (the blood of Jesus), and fine twined linen (delivering sinners from sin through the Word of the Old and New Testaments).
We must know that we can never obtain salvation from our sins and the judgment of sin unless we believe that Jesus, who came with water and the Spirit, saved us from sin through blue (the baptism Jesus received), purple (Jesus is God), scarlet (the blood of Jesus), and fine twined linen (Jesus who accomplished salvation through the Word of the Old and New Testaments).
The Lord could not have become the perfect Savior of mankind without saving us from sin and the judgment of sin in this way.
The Bible speaks about the gate of the outer court of the tabernacle. The gate of the outer court of the tabernacle, which is 10 meters wide, is made of fine linen and is woven with embroidery of blue, purple, and scarlet thread upon its base.
We must spiritually understand the reason why blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen were embroidered to weave the curtain of the gate of the tabernacle.
The gate of the court of the tabernacle was made with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen so that anyone could recognize its colors. God made it so that anyone could enter the shining house of God through that gate, and also so that anyone could easily find the gate of the tabernacle.
The tabernacle refers to the shining house of God. Those who wish to enter the house of God must know the truth of salvation revealed in the court of the tabernacle.
He said that those who ignore the holiness of the fine linen curtains hung in the tabernacle and entered through them while having sin are thieves and robbers.
The gate that enters into salvation refers to Jesus Christ, and the fact that the gate is made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen shows that Jesus came to this earth as the Son of God, was baptized by John, was crucified and shed His blood, died and rose again to become our Messiah.
God wanted to clearly show us the truth of salvation and the salvation of mankind through the words of the Old and New Testaments.
Therefore, we can know the mystery of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen that appeared at the gate of the tabernacle.
God made it so that we can believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came to save us from sin and from the judgment of the world’s sin, and that He is the Savior who accomplished mankind’s salvation through the Word of the Old and New Testaments. We must believe this fact.
We must actually know the truth of why the gate of the tabernacle was woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
What does the blue thread refer to? And what does the purple thread refer to, what does the scarlet thread refer to, and what does the fine twined linen refer to?
When we know God’s plan, we can know that the ministry of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen is all of God’s plan of salvation toward us and the truth of eternal life, and by believing this truth, we receive the removal of sin and can enter the kingdom of God.
Our knowing and believing the blue, purple, and scarlet thread means knowing the meaning of the baptism that Jesus received on this earth, the reason He shed blood on the cross, the identity of the Messiah who is God, and all the mysteries of the sacrificial law of the Old Testament and the gospel of water and the Spirit of the New Testament, and therefore believing in eternal salvation from sin.
Actually, many people seem to know a lot about the tabernacle, but in reality, this was not the case.
In reality, people do not know much about what the blue, purple, and scarlet thread that appeared at the gate of the tabernacle refer to.
Therefore, people want to truly learn and believe because it is difficult for them to know the mystery of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen that appeared in the tabernacle.
However, since not just anyone could know that mystery, they are interpreting it wrongly in their own way with their own opinions.
Actually, many religious leaders are understanding and interpreting this truth in their own self-serving way like sweeping something under the rug, and using it within religion.
But God could no longer leave many of those in religion to just be deceived by false ones. Now He had to reveal the truth so that they could know clearly and accurately the meaning of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen used at the gate of the court of the tabernacle, and save them from all sins.
Looking at the words in 1 John 5:6-8 in the New Testament, the Lord said, “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.—ASV”
The Lord came to this world in the flesh, take our sins upon Himself through baptism, and saved us by shedding His blood. That is why all the gates of the tabernacle were woven with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
First, what does the blue thread represent? It actually represents the truth that Jesus, who became the Savior of sinners, came to this earth and was baptized by John to take upon the sins of the world.
It refers to the truth that the baptism that Jesus actually received from John when He came to this earth is the truth that took upon the sins of the whole world once and for all (Matthew 3:13-17).
Actually, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, the representative of mankind, and took upon all the sins of the world. Since the sins of mankind actually passed over onto Jesus’ head, there is no sin in the heart of those who believe this.
Actually, what does the purple thread used at all the gates of the tabernacle mean? Its meaning actually refers to the fact that Jesus is the King of kings. Actually, Jesus created the universe, and actually He is not a creature but the Creator, and actually He is the Savior of mankind who came to this earth.
Actually, the Messiah Jesus Christ has already come to the world. And through the baptism He received from John in His own body, He took upon the sins of the world once and for all in His own body, and through His sacrificial death and resurrection by shedding His blood on the cross, He saved all His people who recognize, revere, and believe that He is the Messiah from all sins and the punishment of sin.
Actually, Jesus is the absolute God and the absolute Messiah to us. Jesus is the absolute Savior.
Actually, because Jesus took upon all our worldly sins through baptism, He was crucified and shed His blood and died for us, and by His resurrection, He not only washed away all our sins but also received the judgment of sin for us.
The scarlet thread refers to the blood that Jesus shed on the cross, and its meaning was that He gave new life to us who believe.
The scarlet thread, this truth, means that because Jesus Christ came to this earth and took on the sins of the world through the baptism He received, He was transferred those sins and received the judgment of sin on the cross in our place.
And it says that He gave faith to those who had no choice but to die because of sin, and gave new life to those who are born again through faith.
Actually, He gave new life to those who believe in the baptism and bloodshed that the Messiah received.
What does the fine twined linen mean? It represents that God fulfilled in the New Testament the promise of salvation that He spoke of in the Old Testament.
And the fact that in the New Testament Jesus took upon all the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John, and that He received the judgment of sin on the cross, refers to the fact that the Messiah fulfilled the promise of salvation that He covenanted to the Israelites and to us through His Word.
Jehovah said, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.—ASV” Also, in the sacrificial law of offering sacrifices in the tabernacle of the Old Testament, the sacrificial animal receiving the laying on of hands and taking upon the sins of the Israelites was a promise that God spoke to the Israelites and to us.
In this way, the sacrificial lamb took on daily sins and yearly sins through the laying on of hands, and this method was a revelation of God’s promise to save us from sin.
This is also a sign of the promise concerning the Savior who was to come.
Therefore, in the New Testament, the Messiah Jesus Christ received baptism according to the Old Testament sacrificial law to take away all the sins of this world once and for all eternally, and this taking upon of all sins was the realization of the covenant.
Actually, God made known to all of us that He is the God who speaks words of promise to us and fulfills them according to that promise.
The baptism that Jesus received represents this truth that the God of covenant has fulfilled all covenants.
Jesus Christ Who Came with Water, Blood, and the Spirit
Why did Jesus receive baptism from John? The reason was to take upon Himself all the sins of mankind that you and I commit, and to receive the judgment for sin in our place.
To remove the sins of all mankind, to become our true Savior, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, went to the cross, shed His blood and died, and not only washed away all our sins, but also received the judgment of our sins for us to become our eternal Savior.
Jesus received the baptism from John, took upon Himself all our sins, and went to the cross bearing the sins of the world.
Actually, because He was baptized and took upon Himself all our sins, because He bore the sins of the world, He could be nailed to the cross, pour out all the blood from the Messiah’s heart, and die for us.
Isaiah 53:5 says, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities.” The original sin that we inherited in our hearts from birth and the actual sins we commit throughout our lives were all taken upon by the Lord through baptism, and He received all the judgment for them. In this way, the Lord came with water and blood and removed our sins.
What is Jesus Christ, our Savior and Messiah who actually bore and removed our sins, like? He is the Son of God who has the power of creation, who fundamentally created heaven and earth. And His essence is God.
The words of the Old Testament testified more clearly about who He was. Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Who was the God of power who created all things in the universe by His Word? Jesus Christ the Messiah of sinners—He came with the water of baptism to save you and me from all the sins of the world, and came as the Savior who shed His blood on the cross to receive the judgment of all the sins of the world.
Jesus saved us from sin and judgment with water, blood, and the Spirit.
The Lord came as our Savior to take upon our sins and receive the judgment of sin for us. Do you believe?
Actually, Jesus Himself is God. Actually, because Jesus Christ the Messiah is our God.
The word “Jesus” means “For He will save His people from their sins”. The word “Christ” means “He becomes the King of kings”.
Jesus is the Creator who made all things in the universe, the Absolute One, the Savior of sinners, and the King of kings who judges Satan.
In reality, the Absolute One who is God made man in His own image, after His own likeness. But since we fell into our own weakness and into the great judgment of sin, the King of kings promised to save us from sin and came to this earth to accomplish His promise.
And actually, He personally came with water, came with blood, and came with the Spirit to make us completely God’s people and to make us people without sin.
In reality, the Messiah who is the Creator came to this earth in a human body to remove all our sins, and was baptized by John the Baptist, who is the representative of mankind and the last high priest, at the Jordan River, and took upon all our sins.
And He died on the cross and received all the judgment of sin for our sins.
Actually, because Jesus was such a Messiah to us, because He is our Savior and the Lord of our life, we could believe in Him and live again. Therefore, it was said that truly the Messiah became our God.
That is why the gate of the tabernacle is woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and this was the mystery of water and the Spirit that delivers us from all the sins of mankind and from the judgment of sin.
Actually, the Lord’s salvation of us from sin is absolutely not an uncertain truth.
The Lord did not theoretically promise that He would roughly save us from sin and that we would be saved from sin just by roughly believing in Jesus as Savior. The Lord’s salvation of us with water and blood is real.
Therefore, the Lord said to those who believe in Jesus theoretically, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”
Actually, false teachers are confident that they made people receive the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ name, cast out demons in Jesus’ name, and performed many mighty works. But the Lord says in Matthew 7, “I never knew you.”
These words actually mean that among people who believe in Jesus, there are many who have sin in their hearts and go to hell under the judgment of sin.
Actually, many people who believe in Jesus clearly say, “Jesus is our Savior. Jesus clearly saved us from our sins with the blood of the cross.”
But in reality, they do not try to know that the Messiah took upon their sins through baptism and was crucified and shed His blood to take upon their sins and the judgment of sin, and they are believing just like worldly religions, so they go before God with sin.
Therefore, they were rejected by the Lord because they did not believe according to this truth that says, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Actually, whether they believed in Jesus or not, those who have sin in their hearts cannot enter the holy kingdom of heaven, and since they are also unqualified, they must acquire the qualification to enter the holy kingdom of heaven by believing in the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread on this earth.
Making the gate of the tabernacle by weaving curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen was the will of the Messiah.
Those who have sin in their hearts and go to hell must believe this truth.
They have sin because they believed in Jesus wrongly according to their own hearts without knowing the truth.
This is because they do not believe according to the truth revealed in the materials of this tabernacle that God has appointed, but create doctrines with their own thoughts for their own salvation, and believe that they obtain salvation by reaching sanctification through repentance prayers and efforts to God within their own thoughts.
In the world, there are many who say they believe in Jesus as Savior but actually do not believe in the baptism and blood that Jesus received. In this world, there really are many people who do not believe in the salvation of blue, purple, and scarlet thread but just believe in the blood of Jesus only, and think that if they have only this faith, they go to the holy kingdom where God is even if they have sin in their hearts.
There are Paired Words in the Old Testament and the New Testament
God says in Isaiah 43 that all of God’s words have pairs. Actually, all of God’s words have pairs.
God told us to search whether the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament have pairs or not. Actually, if there is such a word in the Old Testament, there is actually a word in the New Testament that practically fulfills the word of the Old Testament.
If in the Old Testament people actually laid hands on the sacrificial lamb and transferred their sins, in the New Testament also, Jesus Christ who is the Lamb was baptized to take upon the sins of the world, and that Word shows that He took upon the sins of you and me.
Jesus came to this earth with water and blood as the sacrificial offering and as the Savior of sinners, and if He had not received baptism and taken upon the sins of the world, He would absolutely never have gone to die on the cross.
The Lord clearly removed our sins with blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
All of this is what God promised with His Word: He came to find us with His Word and washed our sins, which were red like crimson, and made them white as snow with His Word.
In reality, before we knew this truth, we were sinners who clearly had so many sins.
Therefore, we have nothing to boast about before God. We not only have nothing to boast about before God, but we also have nothing to present before God. There is nothing to act smart about. Before God, we can always only say “Yes, that’s right. Yes.”
“You are a seed of evildoing. You are a being going to hell.”
“That’s right. Please save me.”
“I have saved you like this with water, blood, and the Spirit.”
“Yes, I believe.”
We can only say, “Yes.”
Going before God and saying, “I did this. I served the church like this, I believed in Jesus so earnestly, and I kept my faith with stubbornness like whale tendon.”
Everyone, we cannot do that.
Actually, how did the Lord remove the sins of you and me? He showed us that He removes them with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with the Word of the Old and New Testaments.
In the Old Testament, He showed us that He would remove our sins with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and in the New Testament, Jesus came to this earth in human flesh, and when Jesus was thirty years old, He was baptized by John and took upon Himself all the sins of you and me, and shed His blood to bear the sins and the judgment of sin for us to become our Savior.
The Lord took upon all the sins of the world once and for all by receiving baptism in Matthew 3:15. All our worldly sins passed over onto Jesus’ back.
Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself by being baptized, bore them to the cross, where He was nailed, shed His blood, and died. Then He rose again and completely removed all our sins. Therefore, Jesus Christ became our certain Savior.
The righteousness of God that we received is the righteousness obtained by faith in Jesus Christ who came to this earth with water, blood, and the Spirit. It is salvation obtained from God, not salvation that we achieved through our own efforts. We have nothing to present before God.
Actually, we are saved from all sins by faith in the ministry that Jesus Christ, who became our certain Savior, performed. Actually, sinners received the remission of sin by faith in the baptism and bloodshed that Jesus received.
If Jesus’ salvation of us were 70% and our efforts not to sin were 30%, then we would have to do all-night prayers daily, repentance prayers, service, and make efforts so that we would become a little sanctified and our salvation would be completed little by little.
However, the Apostle Paul said in Romans 7, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”
As the Apostle Paul said, we must believe, “I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”
He says that Jesus Christ saved me 100% from this body of death. But who can condemn me from this body of death? No one can condemn me. Jesus Christ has already saved me 100% from the Lord’s side, regardless of my efforts.
You and I Were All Spiritual Pharisees
You and I have known and believed in Jesus a little bit for a long time. We believed in Jesus as Savior even before we knew this gospel of water and the Spirit. I too was one who believed in Jesus for 10 years without being born again.
Actually, when I first thought of and believed in Jesus as Savior, it was very refreshing.
When I first started, it was so refreshing that I thought I would obtain salvation if I unconditionally believed that Jesus is the Savior, without knowing the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
Actually, when I first believed in Jesus, my heart was very hot and good.
At first it was really good to believe in Jesus, but after about 5 years of believing in Jesus, I saw myself continually bound by actual sins and came to know myself as one who was not free from sin.
During the 5 years of believing in Jesus, did I commit actual sins or not? That’s an obvious answer without asking.
When I believed without knowing the truth, whenever I committed actual sins, I suffered and prayed repentance prayers and sometimes fasted for 3 days.
Then my heart would feel refreshed for a while and I would sing praise, “♫Merciful Lord God♫.” After doing that, I would commit actual sins again. Because I was lacking and full of faults, I hated and sinned daily. But not even once were all my sins resolved refreshingly.
After living this kind of faith life for 5 years and about 10 years, I was shocked to see myself and how many sins I committed.
Actually, seeing myself committing tremendous sins daily, how sad and difficult it was, and when I stood before the law, how I discovered what a great sinner I was—as a result, I gradually could not stand before God at all, and consequently became a sinner who could not say that I knew Jesus properly and believed well.
I became a sinner in my heart ten years after I had believed in Jesus.
Actually, when I first believed in Jesus, I thought I was a person who believed well.
But as time passed and I looked at myself, I only came to know more that I had nothing to boast about before God. I came to realize, “Actually, I am a Pharisee. Actually, Pharisees are not only in the Bible. I am a Pharisee.”
Pharisees, when Sunday comes, walk around with their Bibles neatly tucked under their arms, and when they meet someone they know, they say “Hello” and “Hallelujah” in a voice pretending to be holy. And when they worship, whenever the story of Jesus’ cross comes up, they squeeze out tears and snot.
Actually, I shed many tears while thinking of Jesus’ blood. I thought that was offering true worship.
But all people, as they live in the world, discover themselves committing actual sins. Then they try repentance prayers again, and while it feels good when they pray repentance prayers, they have committed so many sins that later their repentance prayers eventually run out too. Later, they even speak in tongues and see visions, but it’s of no use.
Eventually they come to realize that ‘people are worthless beings before God,’ and only later do they come to know that they are those going to hell because of their sins. But such people are fortunate.
In fact, the longer people have believed in Jesus, the more they come to realize that they are lumps of sin, but Pharisees hide this so well and are so good at concealing sin in their hearts that they perform hypocrisy well enough to get recognition by those around them.
Worldly religious people greatly respect each other, but no matter how much others respect and acknowledge them, before God they are nothing but lumps of sin committing sins daily.
We too, when we did not know the truth, at first prayed repentance prayers well, but later prayed, “Lord~ what shall I do with this sin! Lord~ oh, there are too many sins. I have sinned again. Now it’s embarrassing to even speak of it.”
Though it was just embarrassing, since it says that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, I prayed, “Lord, I have committed actual sins. Lord~~ please forgive me”, but still there was sin in my heart just the same.
A person’s conscience scratches their heart by reminding them of their sins every time they bow their head to pray to God.
When their own conscience says to them, ‘What prayer are you trying to make after committing so many sins!’ their heart condemns itself, making them very miserable.
So later, having nothing to say, they cried out like wailing, “Lord~ Lord~.” Going to the mountains and shouting “Lord” three times became even more frequent. Since it was embarrassing in front of people, they would go up to the mountains alone late at night, enter caves, and scream “Lord~!!” However, that was just me having a fit by myself, and the sin in my heart was still there just the same.
They comfort their own conscience by themselves, and even hypnotize themselves saying, ‘Now I have no sin.’ ‘Because the merciful God is so merciful, He removes sin like this, and you didn’t even eat while fasting and praying for 3 days, and you didn’t commit that many sins, so wouldn’t God have forgiven you?’
But everyone, can you deceive your own heart by singing praise like “♫Merciful Lord God♫”?
Can you deceive your own heart that has sin before God? It was absolutely impossible to deceive. No matter how much one’s position rises and receives much praise from people, since they commit actual sins and are not liberated from actual sins, they still have sin and eventually become hypocrites.
There was just sin in my heart. No matter how much I talked about the blood of the cross, shed tears just thinking about the blood of the cross, and believed well, I still had sin in my heart.
I lived according to all the rituals of Christianity, but there was sin in my heart. This is the religious life of Pharisees. There are truly many on this earth who have this kind of faith. They are within Christianity.
All Sins Were Removed by Faith in the Gospel of Water and the Spirit
Before I knew the gospel of water and the Spirit, before I believed it, all sins were in my heart.
Before I believed this truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, there was sin in my conscience.
“For the wages of sin is death.” Previously, if I spoke honestly before God, I had sin before God and was one going to hell because of my sins. Therefore, I was tormented because of my sins. And I was one going to hell both spiritually and physically under the judgment of sin.
Previously, I led many people into Christianity and taught them. However, my conscience had sin, so I worked without being able to cleanse it. I could not deceive God about that.
I acknowledged before God that I had sins in my heart and was one going to hell.
I always had an unresolved question: ‘Why did the Lord receive baptism when He came to this earth?’
I wanted to know why Jesus received baptism. Why? Why did Jesus have to be baptized?
The baptism we receive is understood as receiving it as a sign of believing in Jesus, but I couldn’t understand why Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Why was He baptized? Why?
So I asked many questions to religious leaders. “Pastor, I have one question I’d like to ask. May I ask? It’s a question about the Bible. In the New Testament times, Jesus was baptized by John, but I don’t really understand why He received it. Do you know, Pastor?”
To that question, the pastor laughed and said, “Even Sunday school children all know that. How can you ask such a question without knowing? It’s in the original language and in Bible dictionaries too. Wasn’t Jesus baptized to show us an example, to show humility!”
“No, Pastor, if it’s like that, even Sunday school kids would know. I looked it up in the original language and historically too, but baptism didn’t mean that. Wasn’t there a reason Jesus got baptized by John?”
I kept asking questions. After I believed in Jesus, I began searching to know that reason. For several years, I had no choice but to search exclusively in this field. I looked through all dissertations and all Bible dictionaries.
Even after searching, asking, and researching everything like that, there was nowhere that accurately explained the reason for the baptism that Jesus received.
Like this, I struggled because I wanted to know the gospel of water and the Spirit revealed in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
This was because I had so many questions about the baptism that Jesus received. After that, I was given the opportunity to read Matthew 3:13-17 and read it.
Matthew 3:13-17, ‘Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”’
Reading this Word, I realized, “Ah~ this was it! The reason Jesus received baptism is that just as the sacrificial offering received the laying on of hands to take upon sins in the Old Testament, Jesus received baptism as the sacrificial offering! This was the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen that appeared at the gate of the tabernacle!”
Actually, John the Baptist was the Elijah whom God said He would send in the Old Testament. God said in the Old Testament book of Malachi that He would send Elijah before judgment comes, and looking at Matthew 11, it says that ‘the Elijah promised to be sent is John the Baptist.’
So I understood that John the Baptist was the Elijah promised to be sent, but I could not understand why Jesus had to receive baptism from John the Baptist. Then I read again the words, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness... When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water... This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”, and all my questions were resolved.
“To fulfill all righteousness.” Jesus was baptized and accomplished this righteous work of saving all people from sin.
“When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water.” Baptism was the same as the laying on of hands in the Old Testament. Just as the sacrificial offering received the laying on of hands within the sacrificial law of the tabernacle.
The work of bringing the sacrificial offering before the altar of burnt offering, the sinner laying hands on it to confess his sins and transfer his sins to the sacrificial offering, the work of the high priest laying hands on the sacrificial offering to confess all the sins of Israel for the people and himself and transfer the people’s sins in their place, and the work of Jesus receiving baptism from John the Baptist in New Testament times—all these were paired words.
This is why Jesus received baptism (the laying on of hands)— to take upon Himself the sins of the whole world and to make all people without sin! I realized this only after hearing the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
It was only then that light entered my soul. I came to know that Jesus’ baptism received from John was actually a sacrifice to take upon the sins of this world once and for all.
Actually, I cannot forget the Word about Jesus receiving baptism from John. Actually, I cannot forget that day when I realized that not only the sins of this world but also my sins were transferred to Jesus.
I realized this truth and saw the change that occurred in my heart. My heart was like a lake, and the truth of Jesus’ baptism was like ripples spreading across that lake. The bright light of dawn that knows the truth of salvation came through the darkness.
So I looked up the original text of the Bible. I looked up “for thus all righteousness” in Greek. That word was written as “οὕτως πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην (houtōs pasan dikaiosynē)”. It was written as ‘for thus, appropriately, if not this then not, most fitting, in this way’.
Jesus saved sinners from sin, Jesus received baptism and shed His blood to fulfill God’s righteousness, He took upon our sins through baptism. I knew ‘this was it, I had been wandering all this time because I didn’t know this,’ and all my questions ended.
Since Jesus received baptism and took upon all sins, He went to the cross as judgment for sin and died by shedding His blood. This is the truth within the gospel of water and the Spirit.
The Baptism Jesus Received Is Bearing the Sins of the World
Actually, after reading Matthew 3:13-17, I couldn’t say anything for 30 minutes. I actually had sin, but Jesus was baptized and Jesus Christ said, “For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness,” so I have no sin.
Jesus received baptism, which is the blue thread of the Old Testament, from John, so He was crucified and shed His blood, which is the scarlet thread of the Old Testament. And Jesus was God. And He taught us the true truth of salvation through the Word of the Old and New Testaments. Jesus took upon the sins of all people.
‘Then do we have sin or not? When Jesus was actually baptized by John the Baptist, all people’s sins passed over, so did my sins pass over or not?
Are the sins I committed when I was in my mother’s womb sins of the world or not? Are the sins I committed when I was one year old sins of the world or not? Are the sins from when I was one year old to ten years old sins of the world or not?’ I examined this thoroughly.
To have right faith like this, we must examine the Word very clearly. The sins committed from one year old to ten years old are also sins of the world, and the sins committed from ten years old to twenty years old are also sins of the world. All sins committed from the age of thirty-one to forty years old and of course until death are sins of the world.
Did the sins of the world pass over or not? It passed over.
It is recorded that not only my sins were transferred, but the Lord took upon all people’s sins. ‘They transferred. If my sins transferred, do I have sin or not? I have no sin.’
Actually, because Jesus received baptism from John, John the Baptist testified of Jesus, saying, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
“takes away the sin of the world”—Jesus took away the sins of all people living in this world from the beginning of mankind until the end of mankind by being baptized.
He took away all the sins of all people who live from one year old to seventy years old, from one year old to one hundred years old, and even the sins of their descendants.
Even after thousands or hundreds of millions of years, I came to know that the Lord took upon the sins of all these people by being baptized, bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, shed His blood, and received all the judgment for sin.
I actually came to know and believe that ‘this is why Jesus rose from death and became our Savior,’ and all my questions came to an end.
‘Ah, the Lord took upon all sins by being baptized by John and shedding His blood on the cross. That is why He spoke of blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen at the gate of the tabernacle, and that is why in 1 John 5:3-5 in the New Testament it says He came not only by water but by water and blood.
That is why it says that Jesus the Savior fulfilled all of God’s righteousness by receiving baptism. Ah! This was it, but people did not know this truth and did not teach it.’ This thought came to me.
Actually, because God removed our sins with blue, purple, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, we have no sin.
What kind of salvation from sin is it when people say out of human sentiment, ‘You believe in Jesus well enough, if you believe to that extent, it’s an A+?’ It is not people acknowledging us, but because God’s Word removed our sins with blue, purple, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, we become without sin by believing this truth.
God’s Word says that He did not only remove my sins but also removed your sins.
The Bible tells us that since the Messiah Jesus Christ removed the sins of all people in this world, now we receive the blotting out of sin if we just believe.
Therefore, I was able to receive the removal of sin by water and the Spirit and enter the gate within the tabernacle by faith.
Actually, What Relationship Do All the Objects Inside the Tabernacle Have With Us?
It is a specific prophecy of our sins being removed.
The pegs driven into the outer court of the tabernacle, the silver coverings placed over the pegs, sockets made of bronze, the making of the fillets and rings—all of these foreshadow the removal of our sins.
Actually, the ministry by which the Messiah Jesus Christ saved us from sin is all contained in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
The curtains in the outer court of the tabernacle are hung with white cloth, fine linen curtains. The white fine linen curtains speak of God’s holiness. Because God is holy, sinners cannot enter into God’s embrace while having sin.
So the Lord accomplished salvation from sin for us—what kind of salvation did He accomplish? It is revealed in blue thread, purple thread, and scarlet thread.
Blue thread refers to the baptism that Jesus received when He came to this earth. Jesus took upon all our sins through baptism. Therefore, He washed away our sins. Because the Lord bore our sins through baptism, He was able to wash away the sins of all mankind.
Purple thread means that Jesus is not a creature but the Creator and the Absolute One. The King of kings came to this earth in human flesh to take upon our sins.
The scarlet thread refers to the fact that Jesus took upon Himself the sins of the world by being baptized, bore them, and shed His blood on the cross as the wages of sin for me and for you.
The Lord became our true Savior by taking upon Himself our sins through baptism in His own body as a substitutionary offering, as a trespass offering, as a sacrificial offering for us, and by dying on the cross.
Jesus completely paid the price for mankind’s sins by shedding His blood.
Therefore, you must believe in Jesus’ baptism and the blood of the cross in order to be without sin.
The Lord clearly had the gate of the tabernacle made by embroidering it with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine linen.
One side was embroidered with fine twined linen, and embroidered with blue thread, purple thread, and scarlet thread to weave the gate of the tabernacle.
Thus, the gate of the tabernacle represents the ministry of salvation by which Jesus removed our sins.
The Lord came to this earth, was baptized to take upon our sins, and was judged by shedding His blood on the cross as the wages of sin, thereby washing away all our sins.
Jesus was born on this earth to save us from sin, was baptized, took upon Himself the sins of the world, died for us on the cross, and rose from death to become our Savior.
If we believe while leaving out even one of these, it is not salvation from sin. If the Lord had come to this earth and died on the cross without receiving baptism, that would not be the completion of salvation.
If Jesus had died on the cross without taking upon Himself the sins of you and me through baptism, no matter how much you and I believe in Jesus, it would be vain faith.
The Lord spoke toward this earth to really complete the removal of our sins meticulously and perfectly like the Word of the Old and New Testaments, and the Lord came and completed four ministries.
Jesus received baptism from John and took upon Himself all our sins, and bearing all those sins, He went to the cross and received all judgment for the sins of the world.
“For the wages of sin is death.” Jesus was baptized and died in place of everyone’s death. And He rose from death and is now seated at the right hand of the Father.
We must have faith that believes in Jesus Christ who came to us with water and blood as our Savior. Everyone, do you believe? —Yes—
The Complete Faith We Must Have
The gate of the court of the tabernacle consists of blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen. Anyone must have the faith that the Lord came to this earth and saved us from sin through these four ministries.
If we believe that the Lord was born in human flesh on this earth, was baptized by John, died on the cross, and rose from death to become our Savior, we become children of God.
Even if our deeds are lacking, even if our flesh is worthless, we become people without sin by believing in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen in our hearts.
Therefore, the righteous become righteous only by faith. We put on God’s righteousness by believing in the salvation revealed in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. We become children of God by believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Therefore, if we just roughly and carelessly know and believe in Jesus the Savior, even if we believe in Jesus the Savior for a thousand or ten thousand years, we will not be saved from our sins. We still have sin every day. Then we must cry every day and be cursed every day.
When I think I did something a little well, I think ‘God must be helping me,’ but when something goes a little wrong, I think ‘Did this go wrong because I didn’t pay tithes? Did this go wrong because I didn’t keep Sunday? Since I sinned and didn’t serve God, it seems like God is striking me.’
Everyone, this is dying trapped in the law. “Because the law brings about wrath.”
If we truly want to have perfect faith, we must rightly know and believe in the four ministries of Jesus Christ who came with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
We must know the four truths that Jesus Christ gave. When we clearly know and believe these four truths, we can have truly perfect faith before God and become perfect children of God.
By believing in these four ministries of Jesus, we become people without sin, so we are righteous without sin at any time without making resolutions, we are people of faith without sin without burning our will, and we are perfect children of God who are consistently clean as white snow without sin without making efforts.
Actually, just as a weaned child plays and acts cute before its parents in the Lord, we have peace and tranquility in our hearts at any time by believing in this truth.
Even if your deeds are lacking, you just need to believe in the ministry that the Lord performed in the Lord. This is because the more lacking a person is, the greater the Lord’s love feels.
Everyone, are you still making a commotion trying to receive the remission of your sins because you do not yet have faith that believes in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen?
Now, those who know this truth believe quietly without making a commotion to receive the removal of their sins.
Those who have become children of God by faith are those who know Jesus Christ who came with water, blood, and the Spirit and truly believe in their hearts.
They do not try to serve God through deeds, but first love God by faith and serve God.
Because we believe, God meets with us and walks with us. Because we believe, we receive God’s help.
Because we believe in Jesus who saved us with baptism and blood, we have become those who do God’s righteous work.
We must know the truth that God made the gate in the outer court of the tabernacle woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread to give us certain salvation of the removal of sin, thereby making it our gate of salvation.
Jesus came with water, blood, and the Spirit—that is, He saved us from sin with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen that appeared at the gate of the Old Testament tabernacle.
The Lord became the gate of salvation from sin for us. Thank you. We must know and believe in the four ministries of the Messiah who actually saved us from sin.
The Baptism Jesus Received from John Is the Substance of the Blue Thread That Appeared at the Gate of the Tabernacle Court
Let us look at Matthew 3:13 and onward. ‘Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”’ This time when Jesus was baptized was when Jesus was thirty years old since He was born from the body of the virgin Mary. The words “Then” refers to when both John the Baptist and Jesus were thirty years old.
John the Baptist was born on this earth six months before Jesus, and he was the one who was giving the baptism of repentance to people as the representative of mankind on this earth. When Jesus became thirty years old, Jesus came to John who was baptizing at the Jordan River and wanted to be baptized. John the Baptist tried to prevent such Jesus. When he said, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” Jesus said, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” John allowed Him, and Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. When Jesus was baptized, the heavens were opened and there was a voice from heaven saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and the Word records this fact.
Here in Matthew 3:15, it tells the reason why Jesus was baptized by John. This truth refers to the blue thread of the gate of the tabernacle court. “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” The purpose of Jesus receiving baptism from John the Baptist was to take away the sins of sinners through Jesus’ ministry revealed in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. “For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”
Jesus Christ taking upon all people’s sins by being baptized by John the Baptist is God’s right love, and this accomplishes the work of saving all sinners. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that they would not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus was baptized to save them from the sins of the world so that they would not be judged because of their sins. So, “for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness”—Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and took upon Himself all the sins of mankind and fulfilled all the righteousness of God.
What is “all the righteousness of God”? Jesus said that the reason He was baptized by John the Baptist was to fulfill all the righteousness of the Father, and here we need to know exactly what all the righteousness of God means. ‘All righteousness’ means Jesus taking upon all the sins of mankind by being baptized by John. It means that Jesus took upon all the sins of the world once and for all by being baptized. Since the purpose of Jesus being born on this earth was also to remove all the sins of the world once and for all, Jesus being baptized by John was certainly the right thing to do. Fulfilling all the righteousness of God was to accomplish the right work of removing all the sins of the world—in other words, it was the work of accomplishing salvation.
Jesus’ receiving baptism was God’s method to deliver us from sin. In order to eliminate our sins, God appointed John the Baptist as the representative of mankind in the Old Testament to baptize His Son Jesus Christ and transfer all our sins to Him. That work was God’s work of mercy. God loved us and had Jesus be baptized by John to do the right work of removing our sins to make us His children. That is why when Jesus was baptized by John and came up from the water, God said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” God the Father said, “My Son was baptized, and He bore all your sins.”
When we look at the Greek original text of the words “for thus all righteousness,” it is “οὕτως πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην (houtōs pasan dikaiosynē)”. The word “for thus” is “οὕτως (houtōs)” in Greek, and “all righteousness” is “πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην (pasan dikaiosynē),” which means justice. Therefore, Jesus came to this earth and was baptized by John the Baptist in the most appropriate way, taking our sins once and for all and becoming a sacrificial offering to remove our sins.
Because the Son of God was baptized for us and our sins were passed on to Him, He bore those sins and went to the cross, was nailed, and shed His precious blood to save us all. Jesus was baptized for our sins, was sacrificed by shedding His blood on the cross, rose from death, and saved us who believe. And He rose from death, completed salvation, sat at the right hand of God’s throne, and will come again when the time comes. This truth is the gospel of water and the Spirit and the core of salvation.
Regarding the gate of the tabernacle court, Exodus 27:16 records, “For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen.” This means that the gate of the tabernacle court is made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. This was to tell us the truth that we enter the kingdom of heaven by faith in the gift of salvation.
The blue thread embroidered on the gate of the tabernacle court speaks of our Savior Jesus Christ coming to this earth and receiving baptism to take upon all our sins.
The purple thread means that Jesus Christ, who was baptized for our sins—His essence is the Creator who made the universe and was the Lord of you and me. Purple is the color of kings, so Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of all. The word Christ means ‘anointed one,’ and only those who had the status of king, priest, or prophet could be anointed. Therefore, Jesus Christ came to this earth in human flesh, but His actual status was the King of kings. Jesus is the Lord and Creator who made this universe. Jesus was Almighty God.
The scarlet thread embroidered on the gate of the tabernacle speaks of the sacrifice for sin—the King of kings came to this earth in human flesh, took upon all our sins through the baptism He received from John, went to the cross, and shed His blood. Jesus Christ was baptized and shed His precious blood and was sacrificed in place of the price of our sins. The scarlet thread represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ’s bloodshed.
And the fine twined linen speaks of God’s detailed Word of the Old and New Testaments. The Bible speaks of our salvation through the Word of the Old and New Testaments. God promised with His Word from the Old Testament that He would come as the Savior of sinners, and in the New Testament, Jesus Christ, who is God just as He promised us, came to this earth, was baptized, went to the cross, and shed His blood to be sacrificed for sin.
Jesus Christ came to this earth to save us from sin and revealed the Word of His taking upon our sins through baptism as the blue thread, and revealed the Word that the One who received baptism was God as the purple thread. And the scarlet thread speaks of the fact that He came as our Savior, was baptized, bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, and shed His precious blood to save you and me from sin. The fine twined linen reveals that this salvation was made of God’s Word promised from the Old Testament. So, the gate of the tabernacle court is made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. Looking at the gate of the tabernacle court, it clearly shows and reveals how God saved you and me from sin and made us His people, so we must believe in the spiritual meaning of the four threads used in the gate of the tabernacle court.
When the Bible speaks of the colors of the gate of the tabernacle court, it first mentions the blue thread. Usually, we might think it should be mentioned in the order of purple, blue, and scarlet thread, but it is not so—it is mentioned in the order of blue, purple, and scarlet thread. This shows the importance of the blue thread. Therefore, if Jesus Christ came to this earth as our Savior but He had not been baptized by John, we would not have been able to wash away our sins. That is why Jesus was baptized by John according to the Father’s will to save us from the sins of the world and was crucified.
Jesus is the Lord of the universe who created all things in the universe and our God. He made you and me be born on this earth, gave us new life, and is the God who rules over the lives of you and me. For Him to save us from sin, He had to be baptized by the representative of mankind and take upon the sins of you and me. Therefore, Jesus Christ was baptized by John and became the true Savior of you and me.
Jesus Christ came to this earth to save you and me from sin, and He was baptized to take upon Himself the sins of you and me through baptism. Without the baptism He received, He could never have died on the cross. Therefore, the gate of the tabernacle court accurately shows the method of salvation by which Jesus Christ saved you and me from sin.
The colors of the gate of the tabernacle court in the Old Testament speak of Jesus Christ coming to this earth in the future, being baptized by John, bearing all the sins of mankind, and being crucified—His taking upon all the sins of mankind. When Jesus was baptized, the gates of heaven were opened, and God the Father said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” The Son of God, Jesus Christ, is our Messiah and our Savior, but He was the Son of God and the very One who personally created the universe by His Word when He created the heavens, the earth, and all things in the universe. Therefore, only by Jesus being baptized could He become the true Savior of you and me.
Jesus Christ, who created and governs the heavens, the earth, and all things in the universe, showed us certain salvation from sin. Because Jesus Christ came to this earth to take away the sins of you and me, was baptized to take upon the sins of you and me, and shed His blood on the cross, you and I have received true salvation. Jesus Christ is the Creator who rules over the life and death, fortune and misfortune of you and me, and who caused the universe, the ancestors of you and me, and all mankind to be born on this earth. He was the main figure of blue, purple, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
God Himself came to this earth as a sacrificial offering for sinners. Jesus, who saved us, was such a God, our Lord, the Almighty, and the God of mercy. Because Jesus Christ took upon all sins through baptism, He fulfilled all the righteousness of God, and therefore He bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, was nailed, and shed His precious blood. As shown at the gate of the tabernacle court, Jesus Christ became a sacrificial offering to take away the sins of you and me.
Therefore, not only the gate of the tabernacle court, but also the gate of the sanctuary and the gate of the Most Holy, and even the covering of God’s house, the tabernacle, were all woven and made with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. Because Jesus Christ received baptism for you, you and I have all our sins washed away by believing in it. Jesus’ being baptized was to fulfill all righteousness, and that all righteousness was to take upon all people’s sins through baptism. So we must simply know that ‘Ah, my sins also passed over at that time,’ and we must believe that way.
When we believe in Jesus, we must not believe recklessly and unconditionally saying ‘I believe.’ Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the way. I am the way that leads you to heaven. I am the shepherd. I am the way, the truth, and I am truly the life that saves you,” Jesus says. Jesus Christ saved us from sin and became the Lord of new life for us.
How Should We Understand and Believe When We Believe in Jesus?
We can receive salvation from all sins only by believing according to the method by which He came to this earth and saved us. The word faith originally includes the meanings ‘to depend on,’ ‘to lean on,’ and ‘to entrust to’. When elderly people get very old, they entrust themselves to their children. This is because they cannot live by their own strength, and likewise, the reason we depend on God and live is because we cannot remove sin by ourselves. Even if we try not to sin by ourselves, we always live committing sins. Because we cannot escape from sin, we believe in Him and depend on Jesus Christ who came as our Savior by believing in what He did.
By faith in the fact that He came to this earth, was baptized to take upon our sins, bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, shed the blood of salvation, and was sacrificed for sin, we obtain salvation. Jesus Christ who did that work is the Creator who made you and me and is our Lord. By believing that, you and I can receive salvation from sin. That Jesus Christ is our God of salvation and becomes the Lord of salvation.
Therefore, we must know what kind of faith is right in believing in Jesus and receiving salvation. Jesus came to this earth about 2000 years ago to save you and me, as well as all the people of the world, from sin. When He became thirty years old, He was baptized by John the Baptist and took upon Himself all the sins of the world. We must believe this fact. We must believe that through the baptism that Jesus Christ received, not only all of one’s own sins but all the sins of the whole world were transferred, and that Jesus Christ already took upon Himself all the sins one committed in the past, present sins, and even sins to be committed in the future.
However, many people ignore the fact that when Jesus was baptized, not only all the sins of this world but also all of their own sins passed over, and they only believe in the blood of the cross. But if these people also come to know that all the gates of the tabernacle were made by embroidering and weaving with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, anyone can easily discern what kind of faith is right.
Jesus Christ came to this earth to save us and did not just roughly save us. He actually took upon all our sins through baptism, and because He was nailed to the cross and received all the judgment for sin, you and I who believe have been completely saved. Jesus Christ saved all mankind in this way. Therefore, the Lord said that whoever comes to Him and believes in Him, He will by no means cast out.
When we say we believe in Jesus, it is not believing in His personality, nor is it only believing in His omnipotence, but we receive salvation by faith in the fact that although He is God, He came to this earth, took upon the sins of you and me by receiving baptism, and was sacrificed on the cross. When we look at the salvation shown in the tabernacle, we can clearly see what the right faith is in believing in Jesus Christ.
Today there are many who believe only in the blood of the cross, crying out “♫The precious blood of the Lord~♫” with veins bulging in their necks, and zealously saying “I believe!” by themselves. No matter how zealously one believes in Jesus, by believing only in the blood of the cross, one can never escape from sin.
Because we are beings who can never escape from sin throughout our lifetime, we absolutely need a Savior, and that Savior was Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, who came to save you and me, is the Savior, the King of kings, and the Lord of you and me who created the universe.
He came to this earth, took upon the sins of you and me through baptism, and died on the cross to wash away the sins of you and me.
If we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, who took upon all our sins through baptism and received all the judgment for our sins on the cross, we receive salvation through that faith.
This is clearly shown by the gate of the tabernacle court.
Religiously, People Who Believe in Jesus as Their Savior
Today people say they obtain salvation by believing only in the blood of the cross, but this vain talk is exactly religious faith.
They say, “When I prayed a repentance prayer, the Lord spoke to me in my heart through the Holy Spirit, saying, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” How grateful I was when I heard that voice!” They speak like this, calling such faith their testimony.
Everyone, we do not obtain salvation through emotions. We obtain salvation through knowledge, emotion, and will.
We must know and believe how God, our Savior, saved you and me by what method, and thus obtain salvation.
But what is religion? Religion is believing in what humans have made with their own thoughts.
In the old days, my mother was the head chef in our house. Like Jacob mentioned in the Word, I was the kitchen assistant who followed around holding onto my mother’s skirt tail, asking “Mom, what shall we do?”
When our mother washed rice and lit a fire in the furnace to boil water in the pot, I would wipe the table with a dishrag, set out the spoons and chopsticks, place the rice bowls, and then carry that meal table to the inner room.
Our father, who was in the inner room, would make a coughing sound “Ahem~” and only show dignity while doing nothing. When father wanted water, he would go “Ahem~”, and when he wanted to smoke, he wouldn’t do it himself but would just make the coughing sound “Ahem~” once, and young me would fill tobacco in the pipe, light it, and bring it to father.
Father’s “Ahem~” was like some kind of code—“Ahem~” meant water, “Ahem~” meant rice, “Ahem~” meant tobacco—everything was communicated with just one coughing sound “Ahem~”.
Our mother and I were a fantastic combo. When we woke up in the morning, we would light the fire, set the table, and when the meal was finished, we would sweep the kitchen with a broom. When we finished that, everything was done.
The broom that swept the kitchen floor clean like that sometimes became a god that granted wishes for some people. There were people who would say “Please, please” to a worn-out broom.
Such things were commonplace in people’s lives, and not only that, when there were troubles in the house or neighborhood, they would call shamans to hold ritual ceremonies.
People in the old days had pantheistic beliefs that there were gods in all things, so not only the broom that swept the floor, but also their old rubber shoes they wore, large rocks or trees in the mountains—anything that looked spiritually powerful could become a god.
Now as times have changed, people are gradually escaping from such ignorance, but in those days, it was very common for all things to become gods.
Therefore, what was most flourishing at that time was none other than shamanic rituals. When shamans perform rituals, they chant incantations that cannot be understood. “Dung-dang-dung-dang-dung-dang, may the day break, may the day break, when the day breaks it will be mine. Due to insufficient devotion, the pumpkin gourd burst open. Dung-dang-dung-dang-dung-dang”
When such shamanic rituals took place in any house in the neighborhood, all the neighborhood people would gather to watch. Inserting money into the grinning pig’s head was the highlight of that time, and the shaman’s ritual sounds and intensity were often determined by how much money was inserted.
There was a bachelor I knew before who was possessed by a virgin ghost. He said that because he had a virgin ghost inside him, he could cast out most ordinary ghosts.
If there was a ghost bigger than himself, he might get strangled instead, but he said he could drive out most ordinary ghosts—he was none other than a male shaman. He would live ordinarily in normal times, but when someone asked him to perform a ritual, he would dress up in shaman clothes and put on a show.
Because people have such hearts that believe in superstitions, they daily follow such religions that have nothing to do with God’s Word and come to believe in various miscellaneous things.
People made religion. They made gods according to their own will like this.
Because people have such nature, even when they believe in Jesus, they think ‘Jesus died on the cross for me’ and are so moved by it that they think only of that and believe unconditionally.
And when they hear ‘Jesus is the Son of God. He is the Creator who made the universe,’ they like it so much that they believe unconditionally.
They also say they blindly believe the words, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me,” and like the words.
Because all of God’s words are without error, people simply think that Jesus is good when they hear such good words for the first time.
However, Jesus comes to judge those who believe in Jesus but still have sin in their hearts. Also, Jesus comes again to take those who believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Today, most people who do not know the truth of water and the Spirit and believe in Jesus according to their own thoughts are said to realize that they are truly sinners who cannot live according to God’s law after about 10 years of starting their religious life.
I also believed in Jesus unconditionally at first. “♫Good God~ my God, good Jesus~ my Jesus, Jesus of love~ my Jesus♫.” I was just happy like that, but after knowing Jesus, I came to know the law, and after knowing the law, I knew sin.
After knowing sin, I came to know that there is judgment for sin, and as a result, the pain of sin followed, so as a way to solve that pain of sin, I earnestly did repentance prayers, fasting prayers, devotion, etc. However, in fact, such faith was like superstitious faith that prays for blessings to all things.
I knew the law recorded in God’s Word, and by knowing the law I knew sin, and therefore my heart was so troubled, so I thought I had to do repentance prayers, and I felt emotional relief through earnest repentance prayers.
But sin was still in my conscience, so I always found that my soul was bound by sin, and I suffered anguish.
Like this, my soul was bound by sin in the past, so after believing in Jesus, I did not come to know love, but after believing in Jesus, I came to know sin, and after knowing sin, anguish came. ‘Ah! I believed in Jesus too early.’ As a result, I came to regret having known and believed in Jesus.
I couldn’t help but believe in Jesus, but even though I tried repentance prayers to solve being bound by sin, it was not fundamentally resolved.
Ordinary people also sin but do not know well what sins they have committed before God, but when such people attend church, they hear the Word about the law and come to know what sin is and become trapped in sin.
Then at first they try to solve sin emotionally through repentance prayers, but as time passes, they come to know “Ah~ I am bound by sin. I am one who must receive the washing away of sin.”
However, no matter how much they do repentance prayers again and again, instead of sin eliminating, they come to know that sin becomes more clearly remembered and revealed.
Then from that time on, that person’s religious life continues to be a very painful life due to sin. ‘No, it was good when I first believed, but I have believed in Jesus for 5 years and 10 years—how does it get worse? Why is it more painful?’
And when they first believed, they had assurance of salvation, but now they come to know that they have no assurance of salvation. When that happens, people think ‘It must be right that I have sin even though I believe in Jesus,’ and eventually they become religious people who believe in Jesus by fitting into doctrines.
Such people become religious people because they do not know the truth that Jesus completely saved them from sin through blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. They say ‘I believe in Jesus’ but suffer because they have no peace in their hearts.
Such people cannot change the God they believe in. Even if they try to believe in something else, they cannot change because they know that anything other than God is an idol.
They cannot believe in other gods because they know that only Jesus is the Son of God, only He is God, and only He is their Savior.
However, even while believing in God, because they do not know the truth, they live a life that is always painful due to sin.
Therefore, they must know and believe in Jesus Christ who came with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
Those who have become religious people know that Jesus is the King of kings, know that He shed His blood on the cross, and know that the Bible is God’s Word, but because they do not know that Jesus received baptism from John and took upon not only their sins but the sins of the world, even though they say they believe, they live as sinners and eventually go to the place where sinners go.
Religious people who believe in Jesus do not know how Jesus took upon their sins, so like a blind person groping for and grasping an elephant’s hind leg, they believe according to how they feel at each moment, so they do not know where their faith went wrong and enter into confusion again.
The Four Colors Used in the Gate of the Tabernacle Court
When you look at the gate of the tabernacle court, you should be able to see that it is woven with four kinds of thread. Blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen let us know how the Lord came to this earth and took upon our sins to save us from sin.
Jesus was born on this earth, and when He became thirty years old, He was baptized by John, took upon all our sins, bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, and died, thus saving you and me.
Only when you know this truth will you come to know and believe the truth of being born again by water and the Spirit.
Everyone, how and from what sin did the Lord save you and me? You must know that the Lord saved you and me from all sins like this.
The Lord came to this earth, took upon Himself our sins through baptism, was nailed to the cross, and received judgment for sin. He thus saved us from sin and death, which is the judgment for sin, and now He has risen and ascended to sit at the right hand of God’s throne and has become our eternal Savior who believe.
We believed in that Jesus Christ and received the removal of sin. That faith is faith that believes in the baptism that Jesus received from John and the blood of the cross that He shed on the cross. Therefore, we who believe this truth have no sin.
You and I do many things wrong in our conscience every day. We do many things wrong not only in our conscience but also in our deeds.
Therefore, we have no choice but to believe in and give thanks to Jesus Christ who saved us from the sins of the world through baptism and bloodshed every day.
Only those who know and believe that Jesus Christ took upon all our sins through the baptism He received when He came to this earth, that He took upon your sins, receive salvation from all sins and judgment.
Fundamentally, although we are lacking in everything, because the Lord took upon the sins of you and me and shed His blood, we have the Word of evidence of receiving the remission of sin in our hearts. In other words, we have the assurance of salvation of being delivered from all sins by believing in God’s Word.
This is because Jesus Christ took upon our sins through baptism to take away the sins of you and me and received all judgment for all sins by shedding His blood on the cross, so by believing in this Word, we have the assurance of salvation of receiving the remission of sin in our hearts.
Therefore, “Though your sins are scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” “Even in the storms of this world, our hearts are always at peace.” Because we have our Savior, our hearts are always at peace.
Because our Savior Jesus Christ completely saved us with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, because He said that He saved us from sin with the Word of the Old and New Testaments, by believing in that Jesus Christ, we have received the removal of sin from all sins.
Blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen let us know that we ourselves are those who have received the washing away of sin, and thus we become grateful to God.
By depending on Jesus Christ and through faith, we have complete faith, become completely righteous, and go to the kingdom of heaven.
The gate of the tabernacle court clearly and certainly shows and records that Jesus Christ came to this earth, was baptized, shed His blood on the cross, that He is God, and that He became the Savior of you and me. Do you believe in the recorded Word of God? —Yes—
What Will Become of Us if We Do Not Believe in the Truth of the Blue Thread?
Everyone, what would happen if we removed the blue thread from the gate of the tabernacle court and believed in Jesus as Savior?
God commanded to weave curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen and make the gate of the tabernacle court with those colors. If Moses had told the Israelites, “Weave and make it with purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen,” and if the Israelites had made it that way and completed the tabernacle gate, what would God have said?
Would God have acknowledged it as the gate of the tabernacle? He would never have acknowledged it. Because God commanded to build the tabernacle gate with four colors, if it was not woven and made exactly as He commanded, it could never be called the gate of the tabernacle. Not even one thread of the four colored threads should be omitted.
The gate of the tabernacle court must be woven and made with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen.
This is because Jesus, who is God, came to this earth as a human as our Savior, was baptized to take upon the sins of the world in His body, died on the cross, rose from death, and washed our sins clean as white snow, we have been delivered from sin by depending on and believing in that Jesus Christ.
The colors of the tabernacle gate tell us how we should believe in Jesus to receive salvation from sin.
Those who believed in the truth revealed at the tabernacle gate have received salvation from sin. Their sins were washed away and became as white as snow.
Jesus Christ washed away the sins of you and me clean as white snow. Jesus Christ became the actual Savior of you and me.
This truth is the truth revealed at the gate of the tabernacle court.
However, today many people believe in purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, but there are many who do not believe in the blue thread.
I went to a Christian bookstore to write a book about the tabernacle. There were books about the tabernacle written by famous people, and some people avoided discussing this tabernacle court gate, while others said this.
“What do the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen of the tabernacle court speak of? Blue is the color of heaven, speaking that Jesus is God. Then scarlet speaks of the precious blood that Jesus received on the cross when He came to earth. Purple thread means He is King.”
This interpretation is completely wrong, far off from the correct answer.
Everyone, in the tabernacle, that Jesus is God is spoken of by the purple thread. That He is the King of kings and Lord of all is all spoken of by the purple thread, so why would the blue thread speak of that again?
Because they do not know the mystery of the blue thread, they could not speak properly about the blue thread.
Because they only know the blood of the cross, they emphasize the scarlet thread. When you look at what they have drawn of the tabernacle gate, it is covered with white and red colors.
Blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen—these four colors should all be clearly revealed at the tabernacle gate, but the blue thread is nowhere to be found, and they only used scarlet thread, white thread, and a little purple thread.
Everyone, you do not know how many people in this world speak of nonsensical faith without even knowing the truth of the blue thread.
How many people today say that they are saved by believing only in the blood of Jesus on the cross, not knowing that Jesus was baptized to receive the judgment for you and me and took upon Himself the sins of the world once and for all? Such people always have sin in their hearts.
Such a person is a sinner today even if he believes, is a sinner tomorrow even if he believes, and suffers without being able to escape from the state of being a sinner until death.
So some people say, “I confess that I am a sinner before God until death.” There are those who confessed that they were sinners and died gloriously.
Is it right faith to be a sinner until death even while believing in Jesus like that?
Then when do we become righteous by believing in Jesus? Isn’t heaven the place where people who have no sin by believing in Jesus’ baptism and blood go?
Heaven is the place where the righteous, not sinners, go. Only the righteous who have been certainly saved from sin and have no sin can go to heaven, but those who believe in Jesus yet declare themselves sinners until death do not know blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, so even though they believe in Jesus, they have no assurance of salvation.
Even while believing in Jesus and praying, they have no confidence in answers to prayer.
They believe in Jesus but receive no help and no love.
When they work zealously, they feel loved, but when they do not work zealously, they feel as if they are forsaken before God and feel as if they receive some kind of hatred.
When they offer something before God and give much devotion, God seems to love them and give them many blessings, but when they cannot offer much from their side, they think that God does not love them.
Also, when they encounter painful things, they think “Why does God make such things happen to me?” and think that He seems to hate them, so later they come to resent God and cannot believe in God.
Such people eventually have their trust between God and themselves cut off.
The faith of such people comes from their own thoughts and emotions, so it is very self-centered and dangerous faith, and therefore very wrong.
We must abandon our emotions when we come before God.
When we come before God, we must acknowledge that we are those who have no choice but to go to hell because of our sins, and we must come forward with faith that clearly believes in the truth that Jesus saved such people by receiving baptism and shedding His blood.
Before God’s Word and the words of the law, and also in our own conscience, we must clearly acknowledge that we have received salvation from sin by faith that believes in this truth of the gospel of water and the Spirit.
When we know, learn, believe, and depend on how and by what method God saved you and me from sin like this, we come to know that Jesus Christ has already become the true Savior of you and me.
We Can Receive the Gift of Salvation Only by Faith
Therefore, you and I must know that we are saved from our sins by believing in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, not by obtaining salvation because we did something well.
We must know and believe that Jesus Christ clearly came with these four truths to save you and me from sin.
Jesus Christ promised to come as the Messiah in the Old Testament, and just as He promised, He came to this earth, received baptism, and took upon the sins of you and me, the sins of all mankind, once and for all. And bearing those sins of the world, He went to the cross, was nailed, shed His precious blood, said “It is finished,” and died. We must believe this.
And Jesus rose from the dead after three days, testified for 40 days, ascended to the right hand of God’s throne, and said He would come again as the Lord of the Second Coming.
“I have certainly saved you with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, and I will come again to take those who believe in this truth of salvation as it is.
And to those who believe this truth, I will give the authority to become children of God. To those who believe this truth in their hearts, I will wash away their sins as white as snow, give the Holy Spirit in your hearts, and make you My children.” He said this.
We must believe this Word. The Lord has already accomplished all this truth of salvation and is actually working among those on this earth. He protects those who believe according to this Word of truth and has become their witness.
Therefore, you and I are saved through the Lord’s work of baptism and blood, and live the life of the righteous while dwelling in God’s grace, protection, and love.
Through the work of salvation that saved us from sin with blue thread, purple thread, scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, we have simply received the remission of sin by faith and become righteous.
Because He saved us, we are saved from sin through faith.
When this book of the tabernacle that reveals God’s salvation is read by many people around the world, they too will obtain salvation from all sins by faith.
Those who say they received the remission of sin only through the precious blood of Jesus will no longer be able to say a single word and will realize how false the things they have been saying all along were.
They will no longer be able to say “This is salvation” with only incomplete truth. That is, they will absolutely not be able to say that one obtains salvation by believing only in the precious blood.
In the tabernacle gate, there is the gospel of water and the Spirit, which is the clear Word of salvation of blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
This is clearly God’s Word that was promised and prophesied from the Old Testament, and in the New Testament, God accomplished salvation from all sins by being baptized and crucified just as He promised, so we simply receive eternal remission of sin if we believe in this gift of salvation with joy and gratitude.
This is such an easy and perfect Word, and because it is truth that can absolutely never be known by all the knowledge in the universe, it must be believed.
Because this is such a precious truth that we must not fail to know, the gospel of water and the Spirit is what you and I must believe without fail.
By teaching the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen revealed at the gate of the tabernacle free of charge and easily, God has made us taste by faith such a precious gift of salvation whose value cannot be calculated.
Both you who believe this truth and I give thanks before God who made us know and believe this gospel of truth.
However, there are many in this world who teach and lead false ways without knowing the truth of true blue thread, purple thread, and scarlet thread, and we want to convey this truth to them as well.
We preach this gospel hoping that those who suffer in their hearts because they do not know the truth will be freed from sin and enter into the gate of salvation by conveying this gospel of the water and the Spirit of truth to them.
When we convey the truth of the tabernacle, those who believe will be saved, and those who do not believe will be judged because of their sins.
If we want to believe in Jesus and be saved, we must know and believe the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
No one knows the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread from the beginning. God said, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
What is truth? Knowing and believing blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen properly is knowing and believing the truth.
Why did He say that the truth shall make you free?
How did you receive salvation from sins?
Have you not only been saved from all sins by believing in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, but also have the Holy Spirit in your heart?
Has sin been clearly eliminated from your heart and conscience? Can you be certain by faith from your heart that God is your Father?
Because God acknowledges only those without sin as the Father’s children, He acknowledges only the faith of those who know and believe in blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen embroidered on the gate of the tabernacle court.
Sinners are not God’s children, and only those who believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit that God accomplished become children of God the Father.
As we live in this world, there are many difficult, hard, lonely, and painful things, but we are happy because the Lord dwells with us.
Though we are lacking, we live such a blessed life believing in the gospel of blue, purple, and scarlet thread that has become God’s righteousness and spreading it to the whole world.
Everyone, above all, I give thanks before God because of blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
When I first believed in Jesus, no matter how earnestly I believed, I was so troubled because there was sin in my heart. This was because even though I believed, there was clearly sin in my conscience.
To know whether one has sin or not before God, one can know by looking at one’s own conscience. In other words, a person who has sin recorded on the tablet of his conscience is one who has not yet received the remission of sin.
If there is even a speck of sin in one’s conscience, that is evidence of not having received the remission of sin.
If I had not encountered the gospel of blue thread, purple thread, and scarlet thread, if I had not known the truth of water and the Spirit that solves even the smallest sin in my heart, when many questions and doubts arose in my heart, God met me with the Word of blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
That Word is this. While I was reading Matthew 3:13-17, “For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness”—when Jesus received baptism and came up from the water, He testified that thus all of God’s righteousness was fulfilled, and I came to know and believe that all sins were removed through Jesus’ baptism and all righteousness was fulfilled.
When Jesus was baptized by John, all my sins clearly passed over to Jesus Christ and were resolved once and for all on the cross.
All the problems and questions about why all my sins were not resolved even after believing in Jesus were cut off once and for all the moment I knew and believed the reason for the baptism that Jesus received.
I was so grateful to the Lord who made me know and believe God’s Word of truth, the gospel of water and the Spirit, and actually receive the removal of sin.
Everyone, the Lord came to find me through the recorded Word, and I received the remission of sin by faith in my heart through the Word of water and the Spirit.
And now I have testified to many people about the gospel of blue, purple, and scarlet thread through the Old and New Testament Word, and I am still conveying all these truths and mysteries of salvation.
The true gospel is not human thoughts, doctrines, or emotional experiences.
The Lord has removed the sins of you and me with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen.
Now all people around the world will come to realize the certain truth of salvation through blue, purple, and scarlet thread and will know that this is the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Also, this is the absolutely necessary truth of salvation in the last days. This truth will be believed by countless people.
This present age is a time when all human righteousness is being broken and human evil is pouring out. When circumstances become unfavorable for humans, the evil that is fundamentally within them pours out.
How grateful I am, how precious it is that the Lord saved such people as you and me from sin with the gospel of blue, purple, and scarlet thread—I truly give thanks for that certain salvation. It is so joyful and good.
The world has now entered the last times that God foretold.
In this time when even those who serve with zeal are becoming rare and even believers are withering, if one tries to be zealous with another gospel that is not the truth of water and the Spirit, one will only be wounded in heart.
In believing the gospel of salvation, if one does not believe the gospel of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, there is nothing left in the heart and no fruit that appears, so one cannot help but be disappointed.
The gospel truth revealed in the four threads that appeared in the tabernacle—blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen—is certain truth, so it becomes the best gospel for this dark world.
That we know the truth revealed in the tabernacle and live receiving the removal of sin by faith is such a precious blessing, valuable gift, and great happiness for us.
Because we serve truth and not falsehood, by knowing, believing, and serving the truth of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twined linen revealed at the tabernacle gate, we have great joy in our hearts forever.
Do you also know the truth revealed at the gate of the tabernacle court? Know and believe it.
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