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Subject 11-1 : The Tabernacle

[11-6] The Laver in the Court of the Tabernacle (Exodus 30:17-21)

The Laver in the Court of the Tabernacle
 
 
 
 

(Exodus 30:17-21)

17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18 ‘You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it,

19 for Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in water from it.

20 When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forever to them—to him and his descendants throughout their generations.’

 
         In Exodus 30:17-21, there is a passage about the laver made of bronze.
When you open the gate of the tabernacle court and enter, you first encounter the altar of burnt offering, and next there is the laver. When you pass the altar of burnt offering in the tabernacle court and encounter the laver, you have come one step closer to the house of God by that much.
The laver was made by collecting and melting the bronze used in the mirrors of the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of meeting (Exodus 38:8). Because there was no glass at that time, they made mirrors using bronze and polished them until they became smooth and shiny to see their own faces reflected in them.
When this tabernacle was being built, when Moses told the people to bring bronze to make the laver, the women brought their mirrors.
Therefore, the Bible records that the laver was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. The bronze that was gathered in this way was melted to make a large vessel for holding water, and that is the laver.
Then why did God tell Moses to make the laver?
The laver is a bronze vessel that holds water, and it was made to wash away filth with water.
When the priests were doing the work of offering sacrifices in the tabernacle court and became dirty, they went to the laver and washed their hands and feet.
 
 

The Laver in the Court of the Tabernacle

 
         Material: It was bronze, and water was always filled inside it.
Spiritual meaning: Bronze speaks of the judgment for all sins of mankind. 
Jesus was baptized by John to bear the judgment for all sins of mankind and took upon Himself the sins of the world. 
Therefore, the meaning of the laver tells us that all our sins are washed away by faith, believing that all our sins were transferred to Jesus through the baptism that Jesus received.
The priests who served in the tabernacle also washed their hands and feet clean at the laver before entering the tabernacle to avoid death. 
Bronze speaks of receiving all judgment for sin, and the water of the laver speaks of the baptism that Jesus received from John to bear the sins of the world. 
In other words, the laver speaks of the fact that Jesus took upon Himself all sins and bore the judgment for those sins.
The water in the laver signifies the blue thread of the tabernacle in the Old Testament and the baptism Jesus received from John in the New Testament (Matthew 3:15, 1 Peter 3:21).
 
         The laver speaks of the baptism that Jesus received, and it is a place to confirm the faith that believes in the truth that Jesus took upon Himself and washed away once and for all not only mankind’s original sin but also the actual sins committed in daily life through the baptism He received from John the Baptist 2,000 years ago.
Even today, there are the righteous in this world who have been born again by believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit. They are those who have received the removal of sin by faith, believing that all their sins have been remitted through the ministry of Jesus manifested in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
However, even the righteous who have received the removal of sin inevitably commit sins daily because their flesh is insufficient, and these are called actual sins.
The place that the righteous who have received the removal of sin seek to resolve their actual sins is precisely the laver.
Whenever the righteous commit actual sins, they go out to the laver in the tabernacle court and wash their hands and feet with water, so that they can confirm by faith in the written Word of God the fact that Jesus has already taken away all the actual sins they have committed. 
 
         In the Bible, water sometimes refers to the Word of God, but the most important meaning of water is that it speaks of the baptism of Jesus.
Ephesians 5:26 says, “that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,” and John 15:3 says, “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.” The laver gives the holy saints who have received the removal of sin assurance that no matter how insufficient their flesh may be, the Lord has washed away all their sins with water. Therefore, the water contained in the laver speaks of the baptism that Jesus received.
1 Peter 3:21 says, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Therefore, the laver is a place to confirm one’s salvation before God both when being saved and after being saved.
 
         The saints who have been saved from sin by faith receive grace through the laver (the baptism of Jesus) and bronze (all judgment for sin by God) and faith that believes Jesus has delivered them from sin.
Even if one is weak and makes frequent mistakes to the extent that one cannot call oneself righteous when looking at oneself, one can still be assured of being a perfectly righteous person by reflecting again on the faith that believes in the baptism of Jesus (His bearing of sin, water) and His shedding of blood on the cross (judgment for sin, bronze).
We can always become the righteous without sin by faith in the Word of God that has already saved us all from all our sins and the judgment of sin.
The Word of God that we have believed is the Word that Jesus bore our sins through the baptism He received from John in place of all the judgment for sin that we ourselves should have received, and shed His blood on the cross to completely save us from sin.
God placed the laver in the tabernacle court so that we might have assurance by faith that ‘we ourselves are those who have been saved from sin under any circumstances.’
 
 

Have You Been Delivered from Eternal Actual Sins?

 
         After sharing the Passover bread and cup with the disciples during the Communion, Jesus washed their feet with water.
Jesus wanted to wash the feet of Peter and the disciples with water before He went to the cross.
Since Jesus had already borne all the sins of the disciples through the baptism He received from John, He wanted to teach the disciples the truth of the laver.
Jesus said that He would be baptized and hung on a tree as the Passover lamb to pay the price of sin (blood). Therefore, Jesus’ twelve disciples did not become sinners again even though they were insufficient after believing in Jesus.
The fact that Jesus washed their feet confirmed to them the Word of truth that Jesus had already washed away all their sins.
Therefore, the disciples were always able to preach to all people in the world that Jesus is the Savior and the gospel of water and the Spirit that He had already accomplished (Hebrews 10:1-20).
The laver not only makes the righteous who have been saved from all sins by believing in the truth remember Jesus’ receiving baptism, but also gives them assurance of salvation that God Himself has saved them through His Word.
 
 

The Size of the Laver Was Not Recorded in the Bible

 
         While the sizes of all other things in the tabernacle are recorded, the size of the laver is not recorded.
This shows that God’s Son Jesus bore the sins of the world through the baptism He received, and what He took upon Himself was infinitely great.
This speaks of the infinite love of Jesus who saved us from sin and judgment. The fact that the size of the laver was not determined represents the immeasurable great love of God.
Human beings continue to live committing sins in this world. Jesus received the baptism given by John, bore all the sins of the world, and was crucified and shed His blood to eternally remove all our sins.
 
         The laver was made by melting the mirrors of the women who served at the tabernacle (Exodus 38:8).
This means that the Word of God shines the light of salvation upon sinners, driving away the darkness in them and making them bright.
We must know that God made the laver to personally wash away our sins.
This Word of truth shines upon the sins deeply hidden in people’s hearts, eternally washes away their sins, gives them the removal of sin, and makes them the righteous.
In other words, the laver serves to surely testify to the truth that Jesus Christ has completely saved us sinners through the Word of God.
 
 

The Laver Was Also Made of Bronze

 
         Do you know what the bronze used to make the laver signifies? Bronze speaks of the judgment for sin that we should receive.
To speak more specifically, it speaks of Jesus bearing all our sins through His baptism and receiving judgment in our place.
Originally we should have received judgment because of sin, but through the water contained in the laver, we can confirm once again that our sins have been washed clean.
Those who believe in this truth have already become those who have received judgment by faith, so there is no longer any judgment for them to receive.
 
         The laver is saying to us, “Your sins have already been washed clean with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen, and you have been completely saved from sin. You have been made clean.”
In other words, the laver becomes assurance to the righteous who have received the removal of sin that their sins have been washed away and they have been saved.
The altar of burnt offering signifies judgment for sin, and the laver is related to the blue thread among the materials of the tabernacle, which tells us that Jesus bore our sins through baptism in the New Testament.
 
         After opening the gate of the tabernacle court and entering, passing the altar of burnt offering, and then passing the laver that is encountered next, one enters the holy place.
Those who can enter the tabernacle where God dwells must be those who have definitely passed through the altar of burnt offering and the laver. Those who have received the removal of sin by believing in the truth of the laver in the outer court of the tabernacle can enter the holy place.
 
         If a person tries to enter the holy place by his own strength, fire will come out from the holy place and burn him to death.
Even Aaron’s sons were no exception to this, and Aaron’s sons were also actually killed.
Those who do not know God’s righteous bearing of sin and judgment and ignore this truth are killed because of their own sins.
Those who do not believe in the extremely detailed salvation from sin and try to enter into the kingdom of God by believing according to their own thoughts will surely receive judgment by fire because of their own sins. Such people have only going to hell left as a result of the judgment of sin.
 
         Jesus completed our salvation from sin with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen so that we could enter into the holy place where God dwells.
We receive complete salvation from all sins by believing in this truth.
God spoke in detail in the Bible and predestined from before the foundation of the world the truth of the blue thread (the baptism Jesus received), purple thread (God becoming man), and scarlet thread (Jesus’ death on the cross) to save mankind from sin, and saved all sinners from sin through the ministry of Jesus manifested in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread exactly as He had planned. 
 
         1 John 5 in the New Testament says, “This is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. It is water and blood and the Spirit,” and “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself.”
What is the evidence of being saved? Believing in the gospel of water and blood and the Spirit is the evidence of being saved, and believing in this truth is the evidence of believing in the Son of God.
In other words, only the gospel of water and the Spirit that we believe is the evidence that washed us from sin and made us God’s people.
The only way for us to receive salvation from all sins, enter into the holy place, eat the bread of life that God gives, and live in grace is to believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
We must now receive salvation by believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit that washes away all sins and live our life of faith in union with God’s church.
It is thanks to the truth of the gospel of water and blood and the Spirit that we can live as the righteous who eat the Word of God in God’s church, unite with God’s church, and pray prayers that God hears.
When we believe in this truth, we become the righteous who receive grace before God and live with faith in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
The life of faith that only God’s people can live comes about through believing in water and blood and the Spirit.
We receive salvation from all sins by faith that believes in our hearts in the baptism Jesus received, His death by shedding blood, and that Jesus is God.
The faith that has enabled you to live in God’s church is faith that believes in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
 
         Today many people say, ‘You just need to believe in Jesus. Why do you talk about such difficult things? Don’t say useless things and just believe moderately.’
They may see us as ‘people who say useless things,’ but what is certain is that if you believe in Jesus without receiving the remission of sin, you must receive eternal judgment.
Faith that does not completely believe in the gospel of water and blood and the Spirit is fake faith and wrong faith. In fact, it is not believing in Jesus as Savior.
 
         If I try to win someone’s favor by unconditionally saying “I believe in you” without knowing that person, would that person be pleased and think, ‘This person really believes in me?’
Rather, they would be puzzled and say, “Do you know me? No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know you.”
No matter how earnest the look in your eyes, if you say again “But I still believe in you” to make that person feel good, would this person be pleased? It is more likely that you would appear to be a spineless flatterer who tries to please others by reading their moods.
 
         God also does not delight in those who believe blindly in this way.
When we say ‘I believe in God, I believe that Jesus is the Savior of us sinners,’ we must know and believe how and by what method Jesus dealt with the sins of sinners.
Like a person without character, we can never receive salvation by believing blindly.
We receive salvation when we know exactly how Jesus removed our sins and believe.
When we say we believe in someone, true faith means believing because we know that person well and find them trustworthy. Saying we believe without knowing well is either lying or doing something foolish that will lead to betrayal by others.
Therefore, when we say we believe in Jesus, we must know how Jesus removed our sins. Only then can we go to heaven as born—again children of God without being abandoned by the Lord in the end.
 
         The true faith that sends us to heaven is faith that believes in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
In other words, believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit that saved us with water (Jesus’ baptism), blood (Jesus’ death), and the Spirit (Jesus being God) is true faith.
We must know and believe how great the grace is with which the Lord delivered us sinners from sin. Because believing in that truth will lead us to salvation.
Whether a person’s faith is complete or incomplete is determined by whether that person knows the truth or not.
You can truly believe in Jesus as your Savior only when you believe in your heart in the gospel of water and the Spirit of Jesus.
The faith that believes in Jesus, who has washed away our sins through the gospel of water and the Spirit, as our Savior is the true faith that has saved us from sin.
 
 

The Laver Is the Confirmation of Salvation Through Which People’s Sins Were Removed

 
         The laver contains water.
There is a laver right in front of the holy place, and this laver is a place where we reflect on and confirm through faith that our sins have been washed away. The laver is the assurance that all the sins of believers have been washed clean.
Just as the priest who served in the holy place went to the laver and washed his hands and feet when he committed sin and became defiled, so too those who have received the washing away of sins by believing in the gospel of water and the Spirit have their sins washed away when they commit sin by remembering and confirming again through the Word of God that Jesus has already removed even those defiling sins and finished all judgment.
 
         We become defiled because we cannot help but live committing sins as we go through this world. With what must we wash all these sins that make us defiled? We wash away our sins with faith, believing that about 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ, the King of kings, came to this earth in human form to save sinners, bore the sins of sinners through baptism, and shed His blood on the cross to remove all the sins of sinners.
Only when there is faith that believes in the truth that Jesus received baptism and bore all sins can one receive the remission of sin and wash away all one’s actual sins.
Only when you have faith in this truth that God has already washed away all my sins with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, can you also wash away all your own actual sins.
 
 

You Must Have Faith That Knows and Believes in the Truth of the Laver

 
         Without faith that believes in the laver, one can never enter into the holy place where God dwells.
Our human deeds can never be perfect at any time. Because we are insufficient, we sometimes commit sins.
However, because the Word of God is perfect, the salvation that God has given us is also perfect.
Because God has washed away our human insufficiencies with perfect salvation, we can boldly enter into the holy place by faith.
Those who have not passed through the laver can never enter into the holy place.
Faith that believes in the truth that Jesus already came to this earth about 2,000 years ago and cleanly removed all the sins of this world through the gospel of water and blood and the Spirit prophesied by the blue, scarlet, and purple thread enables one to enter into the holy place.
Without faith that the Lord has already cleanly removed all sins, one cannot enter into the holy place.
Just as one cannot enter into God’s holy place without faith that believes in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, so today we also cannot believe in God’s Word in God’s church, go before God’s throne of grace to pray, or enjoy a blessed life with God’s servants and saints while receiving grace from Him if we do not believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
 
         When there is faith that God has already saved me from sin with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, we come to live hearing and believing God’s Word together with the members in God’s church and praying to God. 
 
         The laver is the final confirmation that we are saved from sin.
God placed water in the laver right in front of the holy place to give the confirmation of salvation to those who believe in the gospel of the remission of sin.
This laver washes away cleanly the defiled consciences of the righteous who believe.
Let us look at 1 John 2:1-2. “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” Amen.
 
         If we sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Jesus washes the defiled hearts of the righteous clean with water.
Before going to the cross, at the Last Supper, Jesus gathered His disciples and poured water into a basin to wash the disciples’ feet.
“I had already taken upon myself all the sins you would commit in the future when I was baptized, and I will be judged on the cross in your place. I have borne and removed even those sins you would commit in the future. I have become your Savior.” To tell them this, Jesus washed the disciples’ feet at the Passover Last Supper.
To Peter, who refused to have his feet washed by Jesus, He said, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” Jesus wanted to become the complete Savior of those who truly believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Jesus has become the eternal Savior for those who believe in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
 
 

The Purpose of Using the Laver

 
         The laver was used to wash away all the defilement of the priests when they performed the work of offering sacrifices to God inside the tabernacle.
The laver was necessary for the priests to wash away the impurities that got on them when they killed sacrificial offerings, received blood, and cut them into pieces in order to offer sacrifices to God to remove the sins of the Israelites.
When the priests became impure while offering sacrifices, they had to wash with water, and the laver was the place to wash away all those defilements.
 
         When we commit sins spiritually or physically, when we become defiled by breaking the commands that God has forbidden, we must wash away all defilement cleanly with the water contained in the laver.
Even if the priest did not want it, when unclean and dirty things touched his body, he had to wash with water to cleanse the impure parts of his body.
In this way, when all people who believe in God came into contact with dirty and unclean things, they used the water of the laver for the purpose of washing away all those dirty things.
 
         The water of the laver was given for the purpose of washing away dirt. Therefore, the laver contains God’s mercy. The meaning of the laver was not an optional matter that people could choose to believe or not believe, but it was an essential matter that those who believe in Jesus must believe.
 
         It is characteristic that while God set the specifications for all things in the tabernacle except the laver, telling how many cubits the height, length, and width should be, He did not set specifications for the laver.
This represents the boundless love that the Messiah bestowed upon us who commit actual sins daily.
In the Messiah’s love, there was baptism in the form of the laying on of hands that washed away all our sins.
When they became dirty while performing priestly duties, they would need to use much water to wash, so the laver would have to always be kept filled with water.
Therefore, the size of the laver needed to be made according to that need. Since the material of the laver was bronze, every time they washed with water, they would think about the judgment for sin while looking at the bronze. 
 
         The priests who served in the tabernacle washed all the dirty things that stuck to their bodies with the water of the laver.
If bronze represents God’s judgment, then water represented the washing away of sin.
Hebrews 10:22 says “washed with pure water,” and Titus 3:5 says “through the washing of regeneration.” In this way, the New Testament also speaks much about the part of washing away defilement with water.
 
         If the priests and Israelites in the Old Testament washed what became defiled in their lives with the water of the laver, then all the actual sins that we Christians commit in our lives now can be washed away by believing in the baptism that Jesus received.
The water of the laver in the Old Testament showed that the Messiah came to this earth and washed away all the sins committed in the world through the baptism He received from John.
 
         God speaks through the Bible. The sins committed by the Israelites and priests in the Old Testament and the actual sins that people commit in the New Testament era were transferred to Jesus once and for all through the baptism that Jesus received from John.
Looking at the words from Matthew 3:13, when Jesus received baptism from John, He said, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” By receiving baptism in the form of the laying on of hands from John, the representative of mankind, just once, Jesus received the transfer of all the sins of all mankind upon His body.
 
         Therefore, all of us human beings must have the dirty sins of our hearts cleanly washed away by faith, believing the fact that all our sins committed throughout our lifetime have been transferred to Jesus through the baptism that Jesus the Messiah received.
Those who believe this fact believe that they have already transferred all their sins to Jesus through faith, and believe that the Son of God bore the sins of the world, was crucified and shed His blood, became a perfect sacrificial offering, and delivered themselves who believe in this truth from all sins.
Do you believe in your heart? —Yes— Those who truly believe that the Messiah became our sin offering have received eternal salvation. 
 
 

Actual Sins Can Also Be Resolved by Believing in the Baptism That Jesus Received

 
         How does the Bible say that all actual sins of mankind can be washed away?
Just as the priests in the Old Testament washed away sins with the water of the laver, in the New Testament we receive the remission of all the actual sins we have committed through faith that believes Jesus bore the sins of the world through the baptism He received from John and fulfilled God’s righteousness.
In the end, all sins are washed away through faith that believes in the truth.
 
         When the Israelites offered sin offerings before God, they brought sacrificial offerings such as lambs or goats without blemish to the tabernacle, laid hands on the head of the sacrifice, confessed their sins, and transferred all their sins. Then they killed the sacrificial offering that had received the transfer of all sins, received its blood, applied it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and poured the remaining blood on the ground.
In this way, even the sins of a whole year of all the Israelites received removal once and for all by faith through the great Day of Atonement sacrifice.
As a result, we receive the removal of sin by faith in exactly the same way as the sin offerings of the Old Testament—that is, by believing in the baptism and the blood of the cross of the Messiah who came to remove our sins.
 
         The laying on of hands in the Old Testament is the same as the baptism that Jesus received in the New Testament.
Our Messiah received baptism from John and died on the cross, thereby taking upon Himself and washing away all our sins.
The Messiah saved us completely from all sins through the merit of the baptism He received from John and the blood He shed on the cross, so now what more is there for us to do to receive the remission of sin?
What we must keep in mind is that even though we are weak and commit sins daily as we live, we also receive the washing away of those sins by believing in Jesus who came with water and blood.
We believe in God, yet because of our insufficiencies, we fall into our weaknesses and commit sins. However, our God, who knows all our insufficiencies and weaknesses, sent the Messiah to this earth exactly as revealed in the Old Testament scriptures, made Him bear the sins of mankind through baptism, and sacrificed Him to save us. 
 
         God placed the altar of burnt offering and the laver in the court of the tabernacle to allow all actual sins committed daily to be washed away before entering the holy place, which is God’s house. However, this does not mean that one washes away one’s actual sins daily through repentance prayers.
Rather, faith that believes in the baptism that the Messiah received and the blood He shed on the cross daily washes away all sins.
God has ordained that even after the righteous believe in Jesus, for all the mistakes, sins, and wrongs they commit, they should receive cleansing by believing in the baptism that the Messiah, who is the owner of the laver, received.
 
         Today many people, when believing in Jesus, think that they blindly bundle together the washing away of sins and His receiving all judgment for all sins.
However, because we are weak and commit actual sins daily, the washing away of sins and the judgment of sins must be divided into two parts.
The baptism that Jesus received from John was His taking upon Himself our sins, and His death on the cross was His receiving judgment for those sins that He bore for us. Both of these were for saving us from sin.
Therefore, the problem of actual sins committed daily must be resolved by believing in the baptism that Jesus Christ the Messiah received. The baptism and the cross—these two combined to accomplish one complete salvation. This is the truth of complete removal of sin.
We must think about and believe in the gospel of salvation that resolves us from all our sins by dividing it into baptism and the cross.
 
         When the priests killed sacrificial offerings inside the tabernacle, dirty things got on them and blood splattered. You can’t imagine how much dirty things got on their clothes.
The priests had to wash away all that defilement, but if there were no water in the laver in the tabernacle court, they would never be able to wash. If there were nothing to wash with water, there would be no one as dirty as the priest.
No matter how much he was the high priest, no matter how much he was a person who had received remission of a year’s worth of sins, if he did not wash the worldly defilement that got on him each time with the water in the laver, he would have no choice but to live with defilement.
That is why God placed water in the laver inside the tabernacle.
Even though the high priest might have all kinds of defilement on his body, because there was a laver in the tabernacle court, he could always become clean.
Even a person who has received remission of a year’s worth of sins becomes clean by washing away the sins committed daily in this way. God ordained that the priest who offered sacrifices in this way should wash away all defilement at the laver.
Therefore, you and I who live in the New Testament era must know and believe why God placed the laver in the tabernacle court and why He placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place.
 
 

Why Do We Need the Laver?

 
         The truth about the laver was spoken of in John 13.
After Jesus had dinner with His disciples during Passover, He began to wash the feet of all His disciples, starting with Peter.
Jesus told Peter to extend his foot so that He could wash Peter’s feet. Peter declined when Jesus was about to wash his feet.
“I should be washing Jesus’ feet, so how can the Lord wash my feet?”
In Peter’s thinking, it was absolutely not proper for a teacher to wash a disciple’s feet.
“How dare I ask my teacher to wash my feet? I cannot do it.” Peter firmly declined Jesus’ service.
At this time, the words that Jesus spoke to Peter are very meaningful.
“What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” The meaning of these words is this:
“You cannot possibly understand now why I must wash your feet. But this will be the key to resolving your actual sins. You will commit many actual sins in the future, but I have already taken upon myself even your actual sins through baptism, and now I must shed blood on the cross because of those sins. So you must know and believe that I am the Messiah who has borne even the actual sins you will commit in the future.” He said this.
In Peter’s thinking, it seemed that the Messiah Jesus washing his feet was absolutely not ethically proper behavior, so he declined, but the Lord said, “You will know after this” and washed Peter’s feet.
 
         “Anyway, unless I wash your feet, you have no part with Me. You do not know now why I am washing your feet. But after I am crucified and ascend to heaven, you will know why I washed your feet. Since I am your Messiah, I have already borne through baptism even the sins you will commit in the future and have become your Savior by becoming a sacrificial offering for your sins.”
 
         As the Lord said, Peter did not understand at that time, but after the Lord was resurrected from death, he later came to know this fact. Truly, that event was one that removed even his actual sins.
 
         Peter realized. ‘Jesus washed my feet so that I would have faith that even the actual sins I commit in the world have all been borne by Jesus the Messiah through the baptism He received from John the Baptist! Even this sin of mine has been borne through the baptism that the Messiah received! Jesus bore all sins through baptism and went toward the cross carrying the sins of the world, was nailed to the cross, and received judgment for all sins! And He was resurrected from death and truly saved all mankind completely from all sins!’ 
Peter came to know and believe this only later.
Therefore, Peter says in 1 Peter 3:21, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
 
         In the Old Testament, when the high priest offered the great Day of Atonement sacrifice before God to receive remission of a year’s worth of sins for the sinners, the high priest had to personally lay hands on the sacrificial offering representing the Israelites, confess saying “The Israelites have committed such and such sins,” and transfer the sins to the sacrificial offering.
The sins were transferred to the sacrificial offering through the same method of laying on of hands as the form of baptism that Jesus received.
In the Old Testament, because the sacrificial offering received the transfer of the Israelites’ sins through the laying on of hands, it had to shed blood and die.
A knife came to the neck of the sacrificial offering and immediately all the blood in the sacrificial offering’s body flowed out. After that, the priest removed the skin of the sacrifice, cut it into pieces, and offered its flesh by burning it with fire before God.
 
         Like the sacrificial offering of the Old Testament, the Messiah came to this earth, received the transfer of sins through the laying on of hands, shed His blood on the cross, and died for us.
Therefore, today you and I will receive complete removal of sin by believing in the baptism that Jesus Christ received and the blood of the cross.
And we must wash away our daily sins by faith, believing that even all those actual sins committed in daily life have already been washed away by the baptism our Lord received and the blood He shed on the cross.
We must have faith that knows and believes in this truth.
Only when we have faith that believes Jesus took all our sins upon Himself through baptism and washed them all away can we be saved from all our actual sins.
And whenever we commit actual sins, we must have faith that believes in the gospel of water and the Spirit. Therefore, salvation from all sins is restored by reflecting on the fact that Jesus has already completely removed even those actual sins through baptism and the cross.
 
         Jesus the Messiah received baptism from John to bear all the sins of mankind, thereby bearing the sins of mankind once and for all.
God sent His only begotten Son to us to remove all our sins, and had John give baptism to the Messiah to transfer all the sins of mankind, so that God’s Son Jesus would bear all sins.
In fact, you and I become righteous by being saved from all actual sins and from the judgment of sin through knowing and believing in the baptism that Jesus Christ received.
Through knowing and believing in Jesus’ baptism, we are able to receive complete washing of the sins we commit knowingly and the sins we commit unknowingly because of our weakness as we live in the world. Therefore, Jesus received baptism for us.
 
         Because Jesus has already removed even the sins that the righteous who have received the remission of sin commit daily in their lives, God permitted the laver so that the righteous who have received the removal of sin through water and blood and the Spirit may be cleansed from actual sins daily by faith that believes in the gospel of water and the Spirit.
 
         Therefore, God made the laver by collecting and melting the hand mirrors used by the women who served at the tabernacle of meeting. This is because hand mirrors serve the role of reflecting one’s appearance.
When we commit actual sins and fall into despair because of weakness, we must go to the laver and wash our hands and feet.
The laver serves the role of reminding us that Jesus received baptism from John and bore all the sins of mankind once and for all.
The Lord had the women’s hand mirrors melted to make the laver, had water placed in it, and permitted all the defilement of hands and feet to be washed clean with that water in order to teach this to the righteous who have received the removal of sin. 
 
         We believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the Creator, and the Savior of mankind.
And we believe that the Messiah Jesus Christ came to this earth in human flesh and received the transfer of all our sins to His body through the baptism He received from John.
In other words, whenever we commit actual sins in this world and fall into weakness, whenever our own weakness is revealed, we must rather remember the fact that the Messiah came in the flesh, was baptized and died, and has already removed all our sins.
If there is no faith that remembers and believes this, no matter how much one has received the removal of sin, one will inevitably be bound by actual sins and return to the former state of having sin.
Therefore, we must believe daily that all those sins committed due to our own weakness and insufficiency have already been transferred through the baptism that Jesus received.
We must daily remember, believe again, and confirm that the Messiah bore and washed away all sins through the baptism He received from John.
 
         Everyone, without the faith that believes Jesus was baptized by John to take upon Himself the sins of the world and shed His blood, there would not be a single person on this earth who could believe in Jesus and receive complete washing of sins.
And whether one has received the removal of sin or not, there would not be a single person who does not commit actual sins while living in the world. Therefore, if one does not believe in Jesus’ baptism, everyone would become sinners with sin.
If that were the case, God’s righteousness would not have been fulfilled.
That is why God gave us His Son, had His Son receive baptism from John, and gave Him up to the cross to shed His blood.
 
         If we believe in Jesus Christ as our Messiah, we must believe the fact that all the sins of mankind were transferred to Jesus through the baptism that Jesus Christ received from John, and that Jesus Christ bore the sins of the world, went to the cross, was nailed, shed His blood, and received all judgment.
We receive the removal of sin by believing in the baptism and blood that Jesus Christ received. By believing in this truth, we have received the removal of all sins.
We have reached righteousness by believing in God’s love with our hearts.
Our hearts are clean and pure without sin. However, our flesh still has insufficiency. Therefore, we must daily remember the baptism that Jesus received and always reflect on that faith.
Whenever our insufficiency and weakness are revealed, whenever evil thoughts arise and we are defiled by actual sins, whenever we act wrongly, we must recall that Jesus has already taken upon Himself all those sins through the baptism He received from John, and our hearts must become pure again through believing in this. The Lord is pleased with this.
 
         When we commit sins, we must first acknowledge the sins we have committed before God, saying ‘I have committed such sins.’
And after that, we must have faith again that believes in the fact that all those sins were transferred to Jesus through the baptism that Jesus received.
We who have been made clean through the merit of the baptism that Jesus the Messiah received must wash away our actual sins daily by faith that believes in that merit.
Therefore, we must absolutely keep in mind and believe the fact that we can wash away all our sins of the past, present, and future through the baptism that Jesus Christ received.
 
         We have learned through the Word why God placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place.
God placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place so that when we come before God, we would come with clean bodies and hearts.
Even though the righteous have received complete removal of sin through the baptism and the cross of Jesus, when they commit sin while living—whether they want to or not—because their flesh is weak, there is defilement attached to their hearts. So when they pass by the altar of burnt offering and come before God, they must wash that defilement clean at the laver.
Because we cannot come before God if we have even a speck of defilement, God placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place so that we could wash with water and enter before God as clean people.
 
 

What Kind of Conscience Is a Good Conscience Before God?

 
         Jesus washed away all the sins of mankind through the baptism He received from John in the Jordan River. 
We always come before God with a good conscience through faith that believes He has also washed away all those sins we commit daily.
The Lord received baptism from John to bear the sins of you and me, and all the sins of you and me were transferred to His body. Because Jesus took upon Himself all our sins, Jesus had no choice but to die on the cross.
However, if we ignore and do not believe in what He has done, that conscience becomes an evil conscience. That is why we must believe. We must become those with a good conscience before God.
Although we cannot live 100% perfectly physically, we must become those who have a good conscience in God’s sight.
 
         Jesus came to this earth and was baptized by John to bear and remove not only our original sin but also our actual sins—all sins.
Jesus, who was baptized by John the Baptist, washed away all our sins once and for all.
Yet what makes us so great that we do not believe? With what audacity do we not believe? What makes us think we are so good and virtuous that we do not believe? To truly become a good conscience before God, we must wash away all our sins through the baptism that Jesus received from John.
To do this, we must become those who believe in our hearts that Jesus took upon and washed away all the sins we commit throughout our lifetime through baptism. That is why our Messiah Jesus was baptized by John before going to the cross.
 
         Jesus said to the woman caught in the act of adultery, “Neither do I condemn you, neither do I judge you.”
Why? Because Jesus had already taken upon Himself the sin of her adultery through baptism, He would also be judged for that sin Himself.
“You are one who should be judged because of your sins. But believe in the baptism I received and be washed of all your sins. And be saved from all your sins by faith. Be saved by faith from the judgment of all sins and be washed away of your sins. Receive the washing of the sins of your conscience by faith and drink water that will never make you thirsty again.”
 
         Today, we who have been born again by faith believe that Jesus is the Savior who saved us from sin.
Do you believe that Jesus bore and washed away all the sins of the world by being baptized? Our Lord was baptized and thereby washed away the sins of you and me.
We can come before God with a good conscience. Why? Because our Lord took on all our sins and washed them away by being baptized for us, bore those sins, was crucified and judged, and rose again from the dead.
Jesus came to this earth long ago and, through His 33 years of life, took upon all our sins through His baptism and washed them all away.
The Lord bore and washed away not only our original sin but also all our actual sins, and received all judgment for sin in our place, thereby making us righteous people who are born again before God.
We can call God our Father and approach God by believing in the Lord.
Therefore, the conscience of all who do not believe in the Lord is evil. Those who believe in their hearts in the ministry of Jesus’ water and blood and the Spirit are those who have a good conscience.
 
         Please believe in the role of the laver. Thus, please become one who possesses a good conscience.
Please know and acknowledge all the facts about why the laver was absolutely necessary, why the laver had no specifications, why He placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the entrance to the holy place, why He made the laver of bronze.
God made the laver without setting specifications to wash away the sins of the conscience of you and me.
God placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place so that by bearing our sins, He would enable us to come before God as holy people.
The fact that He melted bronze mirrors to make the laver and filled it with water was so that we would realize through the law how sinful we are and believe in Jesus’ baptism to receive the removal of sin.
Our God prepared the laver so that we could wash with water all the sins we commit throughout our lifetime.
 
         Our Messiah Jesus came to this earth, was baptized by John, and was crucified to receive all judgment for our sins.
Do you believe? Christians who believe in Jesus must know why Jesus had to be baptized by John and why the laver in the court of the tabernacle absolutely had to be there.
Also, just as the priests of the Old Testament were cleansed and came before God by washing with the water of that laver, Christians as well as all people who live in the New Testament era must be cleansed of all sins by the baptism that Jesus received and come before God with a good conscience.
 
         Let us all live by faith, praising God with a good conscience without sin, and giving thanks and glory before God.
I hope you will become people of such faith who have hearts of gratitude to Jesus who gave us complete salvation.
God has saved those who have such faith from all sins and from the judgment of sin. We give thanks by faith to God who saved us.
 
 

What Do the Bronze Used for the Laver and the Water Contained in the Laver Mean?

 
         The bronze and water of the laver are certainly giving us great spiritual meaning.
The water speaks of the baptism through which Jesus Christ bore our sins.
When the Lord came to this earth, He came through the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen, and among these, the blue thread speaks of Jesus being baptized. Our Lord came to this earth as Savior and was baptized to take upon Himself all of our sins.
The water of the laver speaks of Jesus bearing the sins of the world through baptism.
And because Jesus was baptized by John, He could take upon Himself all the sins of all mankind, go to the cross, be nailed in both His hands and both His feet, and receive punishment for sin.
Therefore, all things in this tabernacle are a copy of Jesus. That is, it is a copy of the gospel of water and the Spirit.
 
         When the Lord came to this earth, He came through the blue thread and purple thread and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
When the Lord came to this earth as Savior, there was something He absolutely had to do, and that was to receive baptism from John.
Just as it is said that “Water is also an antitype which now saves us,” because the Lord bore all our sins by receiving baptism, He placed water in the laver.
The fact that He placed water in the laver made of bronze speaks of the Lord being baptized to bear our sins on behalf of us who had no choice but to go to hell because of sin, and being crucified to receive judgment for our sin.
 
         Jesus came to this earth, received baptism from John the Baptist, and bore all the sins of mankind.
And He carried the sins of the world and was nailed to the cross. The Lord went to the cross, was nailed in both hands and both feet, and there He suffered countless humiliations, being spat upon, despised, and stripped of His clothes.
The Lord endured all that suffering and, while dying, finally cried out, “It is finished!” The Lord accomplished all righteousness, removing all sins through baptism and the cross.
 
         The God of salvation came to this earth and was baptized to take upon Himself the sins of you and me. Water is an antitype that saves us.
Jesus took upon Himself our sins by being baptized and was crucified, and received all judgment for all the sins of you and me, thereby giving us salvation.
That is why God placed the laver between the altar of burnt offering and the holy place.
God spoke through the laver about the fact that the Lord came to this earth and did two things to remove our sins—namely, taking upon Himself our sins and receiving judgment for our sins, thereby saving us.
 
         In fact, Jesus’ ministry to remove all the sins of mankind removed all the sins of this world through these two ministries: water (baptism) and bronze (judgment).
Through these two ministries of Jesus, all our sins were washed away and we no longer receive judgment. We are saved by believing in this fact.
We are saved from all sins because of these two things that the Lord came to this earth and did for us.
Because the Lord did this work, we have been saved, our sins have been washed away, and we are saved from all sins without being judged for our sins. The Lord did that work.
When the Lord came to this earth, He came with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
 
         Just as the Lord came with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen, the Lord has actually come to you and me today through the Word.
The Lord had God’s servants record and preserve all the Words of the Old Testament and New Testament, which are the Words of life.
And when the time came, He developed printing technology and had this printed, and today He has revealed the Words of the Old Testament and New Testament to you and me.
The Lord saved us with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen. In other words, He showed us that the Lord came to us through the Word, washed away our sins by receiving baptism, and saved us by being crucified on the cross and receiving judgment for our sins.
The Word testifies that He saved us in this way. 
 
         The Lord came to you and me through the four ministries of the Lord manifested in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen. We receive salvation through these four ministries of the Lord.
Jesus Christ is the King of kings, the Creator, our Master, the Savior of you and me. He is the Judge. He is God. He is the Absolute.
That God came to this earth and, to remove our sins, was baptized to take upon Himself our sins and was nailed to the cross to be judged for sin. He accomplished it all.
The Lord taught us through the Word that He is our Savior through the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
Therefore, we come to know and believe the fact that the Lord saved us in this way through the Word of God.
 
         We meet the Lord and come to know the Lord by believing in the Word.
Through the baptism He received and the blood of the cross, we receive washing from all sins and receive salvation.
We must know how clearly and certainly the Lord spoke to us through the tabernacle.
In this age, many people think that to meet Jesus, one must have mystical belief. Therefore, when believing in Jesus, they hope to pray earnestly and speak in tongues saying ‘lulula’. Because they think that only by doing so can they meet Jesus.
However, in fact, one can never receive God through such things. God will never meet us in such ways.
God meets us not through mysticism or charismaticism, but through the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
Now I hope you will become those who have met God by knowing and believing in the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
 
 

Our Lord Has Met Us with the Blue, Purple, and Scarlet Thread and Fine Twisted Linen

 
         We can meet Him because of these four ministries of Jesus, and by meeting Him, we can know and believe in the ministry through which He saved us.
We come to know that He has completely saved us, that He has accomplished all righteousness, and that He has given us the gift of salvation, and we come to know this through none other than the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Through the Word of God, we come to know how God loved us and how He saved us.
 
         In this way, we meet God through the Word of God.
It is right that we meet God by believing in the Word of God.
Therefore, the apostle Peter says, “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23).
 
         Through the Word of God, we come to know who He is, how He saved you and me, how much He loved us, and how He gave us the gift of salvation. Therefore, we come to believe in our hearts.
 
         We cannot meet God, receive the removal of sin, or receive love without going through the Word of God.
Only when you and I know and believe through the Word of God that we have saved through the baptism that Jesus Christ received and the blood of the cross do we receive certain salvation. If one believes in Jesus as one`s Savior without knowing baptism and the cross through the Word, that faith is false faith.
The Lord has clearly revealed Himself to us with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen and has made us believe. Is that so, everyone? —Yes—
 
 

Today, Many People Treat the Word of God Lightly Because of Superstitious Faith

 
         Many false preachers preach only, ‘Let us live righteously,’ regardless of the Word of God, as if they had laid out God’s Word merely for show.
And they talk only about the blood of the cross for receiving salvation, and then mistakenly believe that one must do mountain prayers or fasting prayers for a secondary, physical experience of meeting God.
Although this is really a very wrong belief, they believe it so firmly.
They say, “I was tormented by sin, so I prayed all night saying ‘God, I have committed a sin. I believe in the Lord’ and received forgiveness. Another evening, my heart was troubled because of my sin, but after praying all night until dawn, the sin in my heart was washed away like white snow and my heart was refreshed. So I was born again then.”
Everyone, such thoughts and beliefs are nothing but ignorant and absurd human ideas that make the Word of God useless.
Remember that God said He will punish those who deceive people with such nonsensical mystical words and lead others into the flames of hell many times more severely.
“My ear hurt so much. But I believed the Lord’s word that if I believe, I will be healed, and though it hurt, I endured saying ‘I believe.’ When I believed like that, my ear stopped hurting.”
“My stomach hurt so much that my belly ached, and when I ate food, my stomach twisted. So I said ‘Lord, I am in pain, but I believe Your word’ and ate food, and my digestion improved.”
 
         What is all this? These are cases that come from false mystical belief, not from meeting the Lord through the Word.
These cases are false belief, not faith through the Word. This is a mystical belief, not receiving answers to prayers through the Word.
It is not believing in God through the Word, but believing in illusions with emotions and experiences.
What is truly regrettable and sad is that there are many such mystics among Christians.
Believing in Jesus recklessly with one’s own thoughts, emotions, or experiences while putting the Word of God aside is nothing but superstitious faith.
Those who say they believe in Jesus without believing according to the Word must examine whether they are possessed by demons.
They say things like ‘I met Jesus while praying,’ ‘I had a dream and Jesus appeared,’ ‘I prayed earnestly and my illness was healed as if washed away,’ but what is certain is that this is definitely not faith given by God but false faith given by Satan the devil.
 
         The Lord teaches us and meets us through the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
In the way the Lord appears to us in this age, does He appear during prayer or in dreams, wearing shackles, with large iron masses on both feet, bleeding profusely, wearing a crown of thorns on His head, and making clanking sounds while saying, “Child, I suffered like this for you, so what will you do for Me?”
Yet after having such dreams, there are many people who make decisions before God saying, “God, I will become Your servant and serve the Lord. I will build a prayer center here. I will build a church here. I will carry a cross on my back for my entire life and go on evangelistic tours throughout the nation and the world.”
 
         We actually often see such people on the streets or in public places, and they are invariably mystics who say they saw the Lord in a dream or heard the Lord’s voice during prayer and promised to live that way.
The Lord works through the Word, not by appearing during prayer or in dreams to give words.
They say that if you think a lot, you dream a lot. If you spread your wings of imagination too much about Jesus and have too much unrequited love, thinking too much, you will have such dreams.
 
         Growing children are in a period when cells are being generated, so no matter how much you tell them to stay still, they cannot stay still. And at that age, they dream so often of falling from high places that when they wake up in the morning after having such dreams at night, there were times when they felt their height had grown rapidly.
That is what dreams are. Just as when you fall asleep while thinking deeply about something, you dream of being absorbed in that work even in your dreams, the subconscious appears in the world of dreams.
Therefore, if you think a lot, you also have many strange dreams, but these are all merely expressions of physical changes or the subconscious that have nothing to do with faith.
 
         Therefore, if you think a lot about Jesus who shed His blood on the cross, Jesus appears in dreams wearing a crown of thorns.
It is fortunate that you at least had a dream about Jesus, but there are also foolish people who try to give up everything to live their lives that way, saying that Jesus appeared bleeding profusely and said, “What will you do for Me? You should live a life of poverty for Me throughout your lifetime, do not possess anything for Me.”
Are there those who have become frightened by dreams, or have had something that seems very serious happen to them, or whose lives have been changed by a dream they once had? That is mysticism.
 
         God meets us through the Word. He is not one who meets us through dreams or visions during prayer.
The Word of God is recorded in the Words of the Old and New Testaments. When we hear the words of those who deliver this Word and receive the Word into the spirit of our mind, our spirit meets God through the Word. We meet only through the Word.
 
         We also come to know through the Word that Jesus bore all our sins through baptism, and we come to believe in our hearts by hearing the Word.
The answer to why Jesus had to die on the cross is also in the Word. Because Jesus received baptism and bore our sins, He died on the cross and saved us.
Through the Word we come to know God and come to believe through the Word. Also, we come to know through the Word that Jesus Christ is God, and we come to believe through the Word.
 
 

If There Were No Written Word of God, How Could We Come to Believe in God?

 
         If there were no Word of God, how could we meet and believe in Jesus who removed our sins?
Without the Word of God, our faith is nothing. We could say “I think this way,” expressing our own thoughts, but that is not truth, and if what is not truth occupies the heart, truth cannot enter into the heart.
It is right to say not ‘I think this way’ but ‘The Bible says this’.
When we read the Bible, the truth that God has spoken enters the heart and changes all the thoughts we originally had.
 
         What is the faith you have in the gospel of the water and the Spirit based on? Is it your own thoughts? Or did you become a born—again person by knowing the facts through hearing the Word and believing?
You became one who believes with the heart through the Word and became one who met God with the heart. That is why the gate of the tabernacle court was woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
 
         The water contained in the laver signifies the baptism through which Jesus Christ bore all our sins.
“For thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” We came to know through the Word of God the baptism through which Jesus bore the sins of the world.
Because we came to know this fact through the Word about Jesus’ baptism that bore all the sins that you and I commit throughout our lifetime, that Word gave us faith in baptism in our hearts.
We come to know the truth manifested in the laver through the Word.
 
         We can know through the Word of God that the laver was made of bronze.
In the Bible, bronze signifies judgment. Therefore, the meaning manifested in the laver made of bronze serves as a mirror that reflects ourselves—in other words, when we see ourselves before the law, we are those who cannot help but be judged.
That is why the laver was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the tabernacle of meeting.
The Lord came to this earth, was baptized, and died on the cross to save us who could not help but be judged because of sin.
We come to know through the written Word of God that because the Lord was baptized, He bore all our sins and went to the cross to receive judgment for sin, and we receive salvation by accepting this into our hearts and believing.
Everyone, have you received salvation? —Yes—
 
         In a certain denomination that believes in mysticism, one must know exactly what month and day one was saved.
And one minister of that denomination testified before many church members that he went to a mountain to pray, came to realize that he was nothing, and believed in Jesus to receive salvation.
That is certainly emotional false faith that has nothing to do with fine twisted linen. The faith he has is faith that has nothing to do with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
The salvation that denomination teaches has nothing to do with salvation that comes from the Word of God, and is merely something they created themselves.
 
         Everyone, you can hypnotize yourself. If you insist ‘I am without sin’ and think it repeatedly, you will be hypnotized and become without sin yourself.
If you chant such incantations as if giving yourself suggestions, you really come to feel as if you have no sin, but such feelings never last long. So before long, you have to hypnotize yourself again. ‘I am without sin. I am without sin.’ You have to hypnotize yourself again.
How self—centered, untruthful, ignorant, and superstitious is such belief?
 
         Fine twisted linen represents the Word of God in the Old and New Testaments.
The fact that the gate of the tabernacle court, the gate of the holy place, and the gate of the Most Holy were all made of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen means that the Old and New Testaments record that Jesus becomes the door of our salvation and becomes our Savior.
Therefore, how clear a truth is this salvation that God has spoken of! I really give thanks before God.
That is why when I pray, I do not try to stir up emotions or make a fuss. I just pray with a heart that entrusts and depends on everything before God.
“God the Father, please help us. Please let us preach the gospel to the whole world. Please protect our fellow workers and all the saints. And please give us workers who can serve the gospel, let this gospel be spread, let believers understand and know the Word, and give them faith to believe.” I only pray like this, and I do not pray all night long by laying down a cushion and crying ‘uh~ uh~’ while stirring up emotions.
 
         No matter how hard one tries, if no true emotion arises, then stirring up feelings by pitifully thinking about the death of one’s father or recalling what one’s mother said, and offering a fabricated prayer out of that, is like filth that makes God nauseous—something detestable to Him.
Is it good faith to think of Jesus dying on the cross and stir up emotions again, crying ‘uh~’ and ‘I believe’? Thinking of the sins one has committed and stirring up emotions saying ‘Lord~ I have sinned, Lord please let me live rightly’—if you deliberately stir up your own emotions, emotions will arise.
Many people cry like that by stirring up emotions, and because it relieves a lot of stress, their hearts feel refreshed, and they think this is faith.
Such emotional faith is somewhat tiring, but because there is a momentary refreshing of the heart, they continue their religious life in that way.
 
 

I Hope You Believe That the Lord Came to Us With the Blue, Purple, and Scarlet Thread and Fine Twisted Linen

 
         The Lord came through the Word. Therefore, do not wait for your senses, but listen to what the Word of God says. Whether you believe that Word in your heart or not—that is what matters.
In prayer, do not try to immerse yourself in emotions. Moderately abandon emotions. There are truly many deceivers in the world who target emotional people and approach those who like overly emotional and touching things.
When you follow emotions, you very often lose the intellectual part. For example, there are many gatherings called ‘Great Spiritual Revival Meetings,’ and when you go and see them, stirring up emotions greatly is commonplace.
We who have been born again through the Word of truth cannot hold such revival meetings that stir up emotions, even if we try. This is because preaching the Word of God is not about stirring up emotions like the world’s great spiritual revival meetings.
Because I was born again through the Word of truth, I have parted ways with the emotional aspect.
 
         We righteous people who hear the Word of God, use knowledge, and believe with our hearts absolutely do not like stirring up emotions.
We preach the Word of God as it is, understand it as it is, quickly discern it, and believe the truth. Because we who know and believe the truth of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen have the Holy Spirit in our hearts, we know that what is stirred up by our emotions is not faith, so we accept only true truth in our hearts.
 
         Jesus came with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen. How amazing is this fact that the Lord came with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen?
How amazing is the love with which the Lord saved you?
Through Jesus’ four ministries revealed in God’s Word, Jesus bore all your sins through baptism and saved us by going to the cross and saying “It is finished.”
Do you believe in your heart? —We believe—
Those who preach the gospel must preach the Word of God composed of the Old and New Testaments like fine twisted linen, and the content must be the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
And those who hear must sincerely accept and believe it in their hearts.
 
 

The Water in the Laver Washes away Our Sins

 
         Jesus took upon Himself all our sins through baptism and washed them all away.
The baptism Jesus received refers to the water in the laver, and it washes those of us clean who were destined for hell because of our sins and allows us to come before God.
Because Jesus took upon Himself all sins through baptism and washed them away, He could go to the cross, suffer all pain and suffering, and die by shedding His blood.
Jesus’ baptism and the cross testify that He received all judgment for all our sins. Jesus accomplished all our salvation through baptism and the cross.
 
         It is never through repentance prayers that sins are washed away. Our sins have all been washed away because Jesus already received baptism and bore our sins for us.
We hear this Word and our sins are washed away by believing in what Jesus Christ has done.
We are freed from judgment for all sins by believing in the Word that Jesus Christ died on the cross and received judgment for sin.
Thanks to the judgment that Jesus received for us, we have received all the judgment for sin that we should have received through faith. We have really received salvation by faith. In some ways, salvation is so simple.
We are saved by believing in the gift and love of salvation through faith, but if we do not believe, we cannot be saved.
 
 

Without Salvation Accomplished by God, There Is Nothing We Can Do to Receive Salvation

 
         We are those who cannot do anything unless God saves us. Just as the Lord determined to save us in this way from before the foundation of the world and accomplished salvation, everything depends on what God sets His heart on.
God the Father determined to save us through His Son and the Holy Spirit, and when the time came, He sent Jesus Christ to this earth. When Jesus became thirty years old and the time came to accomplish that work, God had Jesus receive baptism, die on the cross, and rise from the dead to save us.
Therefore, we learn and know what the Lord has done through the Words of the Old and New Testaments and receive salvation by believing in our hearts.
Being saved by believing in our hearts means that we accept and believe in this ministry of Jesus in our hearts.
 
         Everyone, do you believe that these Bible Words are the Word of God? This Bible is God who has existed from the beginning and His Word.
Through the Word of God—the Words of the Old and New Testaments—we can know and meet God.
And through the Words of the Old and New Testaments, we can know and believe that He saved us with the blue, purple, and scarlet threads and fine twisted linen.
Also, those who actually believe can testify that there is definite power in that Word because they have received salvation. Now, instead of judging and measuring the Word of God with this and that and our own narrow thoughts, we must know exactly how God saved us according to the Word of God.
Now I hope you will hear and believe the Word of blue (baptism), purple (Jesus is the King of kings), scarlet thread (the cross), and fine twisted linen (the Word of God in the Old and New Testaments) through the Old and New Testaments.
You can never be saved by putting the Word of God aside and constantly finding fault with and weighing the Word of God with your own standards throughout your lifetime.
 
         If you acknowledge that you really do not know the Word of God well, you should listen carefully to the words of those who knew, believed, and were born again in the truth before you.
Whether they are ministers or a worker, you should listen to the Word of God they deliver, and if it is really right before the Word of God, you should acknowledge it as ‘right’ and believe it in the heart.
Those who deliver the message do not deliver it because it is easy to deliver, but because it is right before God to really deliver the Word of truth, they deliver the gospel of water and the Spirit, which is the right knowledge they have before God—the truth of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
No matter through whom we heard it, if it is really the Word of God, there is nothing wrong with it, not even one jot or one tittle, so we have nothing else to do but just say ‘yes’ and believe.
 
         We must believe the Word of God. What does believing mean? It means accepting. It means depending.
Because the Lord received baptism for us, we transfer our sins to the Lord by faith and depend on the Lord.
“Did the Lord really do that and really save me? I depend on You. I believe.” Believing like that is true faith.
 
         Among those who study theology in the world, it is difficult to find people who know and believe rightly.
They are blocked from the gate of the tabernacle court even before coming to the laver whose specifications were not determined, and they cannot even enter the tabernacle court.
When they preach about the tabernacle, they intentionally try to skip over the gate of the tabernacle court, and when they publish books about the tabernacle, they strangely draw pictures from an angle that hides the large gate that occupies 10 meters among the pillars in the tabernacle court. 
 
         There are some who boldly preach about the gate of the tabernacle court, but they do not know the essence of the blue thread, so they say ‘blue is the color of heaven.’
Therefore, they say that the blue thread is the heavenly color that represents Jesus being God, and the scarlet thread speaks of Jesus shedding the blood of the cross on earth, thus very cleverly avoiding the truth of the gate of the tabernacle court.
What is purple? Purple speaks of the King of kings and that Jesus is God. The purple thread has already perfectly shown that Jesus is God, so much so that there is no need to say that blue is the color of heaven.
Blue represents the truth that Jesus came to this earth and was baptized by John to bear all the sins of mankind once and for all, but because the world’s theologians do not acknowledge Jesus’ baptism, they do not know blue and cannot preach it, so they only speak in vain.
Those who cannot believe in Jesus who came with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen and have not been born again are spiritually blind because they do not know that Jesus bore all sins through baptism and received judgment.
Therefore, they cannot interpret the Word, so they roughly interpret it with their own thoughts in a self—serving manner and have turned the Word of God into religion.
They teach, “Believe in Jesus. Then you will receive salvation. And from now on, live a good life.” They have turned faith in Jesus Christ into religious life that focuses on deeds.
 
         Because people know well that they cannot live a good life no matter how hard they try, they are deceived by words that encourage human will to try to live a good life.
Religion is always like ‘if you do it, you can achieve it’ or ‘try to become holy.’ All religions have in common that they highly value human thoughts, efforts, and will.
What about Buddhism, which we can see most closely? It emphasizes endless human effort and will, saying ‘do not kill, cultivate the way and accumulate good deeds,’ and tells people to strive to become holy by themselves, which has similarities to Christian doctrine.
The reason Christianity and Buddhism seem so intimate, though they appear to be at completely opposite extremes, is because they are all religion.
 
         Religion and faith are very different.
True faith is acknowledging and accepting by faith in our hearts the gift that has saved us entirely through God’s righteousness.
Faith is receiving the removal of sin by believing in our hearts that the Lord came to this earth and was baptized to take on our sins, and also was crucified and received all judgment for our sins.
Faith is believing in the Word that the Lord saved us with water and blood, saving us from all sin and judgment. Do you believe? —Yes— We must believe with a true heart.
 
 

God Has Already Saved You and Me From Sin

 
         Therefore, we only need to believe and accept that Word of salvation in our hearts. That is true faith, and nothing else is important before God.
Because God loves you, God sent His only begotten Son to this earth, had Him baptized to take upon Himself your sins, had Him crucified to shed His blood, had Him judged and die, then raised Him from death to save you from all sins.
But if you do not believe that, what would God’s heart be like? If you want to become children of faith who satisfy God’s heart even now, you must believe in the gospel of salvation through which God removed all your sins through His Son and saved you from sin.
You must believe in your heart and confess that faith with your mouth in thanksgiving. If believing in your heart does not work well, clearly confess with your mouth. If you confess ‘I believe,’ faith that was not there will arise. Faith belongs to those who take it.
 
         Let us suppose there is a real diamond ring here.
When I told several people that this is really a diamond and I would give it to you as a gift, suppose some of you absolutely cannot believe it is a real diamond and refuse to receive it.
In fact, it is a real diamond, but because that person does not believe, for that person it is not a diamond, and he has lost the real diamond.
Faith is like that. If the Absolute had proven with words why this is a diamond, then there would be those who believe in the power of that Absolute and believe it is a diamond. They are those who have faith.
“I find it hard to believe the fact that this is a diamond, but since You, the Absolute, say it is a diamond, I believe.” When he confesses like that, he becomes a person of faith and the diamond becomes his as promised.
 
         On the other hand, there is also another kind of faith. Some diamond is not real, but being captivated by its color, one mistakes it for a diamond and believes it.
In fact, it is not a diamond, but through faith in the words of one who gives false testimony that it is a diamond, one believes it is a diamond as firmly. This fake diamond is like a real diamond to him. But in fact, what he has is fake.
 
         God said, “You shall have no other gods before Me.”
God’s Word is God, and He said that unless one is born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Unless one passes through the gate of the court of the tabernacle woven with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen, he cannot enter into the court of the tabernacle, and those who do not wash their hands and feet clean at the laver cannot enter the sanctuary.
Since this Word is the only truth, everything else is fake. Only faith that believes in truth is real faith, and faith that believes in anything else is fake faith.
No matter how firmly one believes, what is not God’s Word remains not God’s Word until the end.
When Jesus says that He has removed your sins through baptism and the blood of the Cross, you just need to believe. Since the One who said He did so is God, that faith is real.
If the Lord really did not do so, then since the Lord did not do it, if you believe so, there would be nothing wrong with your faith.
On the other hand, if the Lord clearly did so but you cannot obtain salvation because you do not believe, that is clearly your responsibility.
Therefore, all we need to do is believe. We must believe in the Word that God speaks through the church. Do you believe? —Yes—
 
         What is the Word that God’s church preaches? It is the Word of Jesus Christ who came with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine twisted linen.
The church preaches all of God’s Word, the fact that Jesus is God, that Jesus received baptism to bear our sins, and that He received all the judgment for our sins on the Cross.
Faith that believes in that truth that He saved us in this way is the faith of the real diamond that God guarantees.
 
         When we know the will of God and the spiritual meaning revealed in the tabernacle and speak about it, it is this simple, but if we do not know this and only pursue intellectual things such as how big the tabernacle’s exterior dimensions are, what the Hebrew original word for tabernacle is, and where the origin of the tabernacle comes from, we will gain no benefit and only get a headache.
 
         Believe in the baptism of Jesus. Jesus was baptized that washes away all the dark and filthy sins in our hearts.
Baptism has the meanings of washing away sin, to pass over, to be immersed, to be buried, to be transferred, to be covered. Because Jesus received such baptism for us, all your sins have been passed on to Jesus.
Now those who do not believe in this truth of salvation will be put to death and go to hell. “So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forever to them—to him and his descendants throughout their generations” (Exodus 30:21). If you do not believe, it is a curse. If you do not believe, it is hell. If you do not believe, Jehovah’s curse and destruction will come upon you and you will enter the eternal pit of fire.
 
         “They shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die” is what God said to the high priest, saying it is a law to be kept forever throughout their generations.
Whoever wants to believe in Jesus as their Savior must believe in the baptism that Jesus received and the blood of the Cross.
Faith is taking. When I believe in my heart and accept it, salvation becomes mine. The truth becomes beneficial to us when we believe it.
We must believe in what God has said. There is no greater obstacle in the heart than not believing.
 
         God commanded that when the priest comes before God, he should wash his hands and feet clean at the laver and then come forward, but today it is difficult to find people who have such faith of washing hands and feet at the laver. All those who do not have the faith revealed in the laver will be put to death before God.
Everyone, believe in the gospel of water and the Spirit in your heart to obtain cleanliness before God, escape death, and receive the kingdom of God as a gift. When you go before God, no matter how much you insist that you believed, you will be judged for not believing the truth when the opportunity came. I hope there will be no one who is put to death for failing to believe the truth.
 
         Everyone, where will those who have sin in their hearts go because they do not believe in the truth of salvation that Jesus removed your sins through baptism and the blood of the Cross?
Do you believe? We must give thanks to the Lord for saving us from sin and judgment through the laver.
 
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The TABERNACLE : A Detailed Portrait of Jesus Christ (I) [New Revised Edition]
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