<TITLE>35. Par 301-308</TITLE>L-301 Moses was taken up into heaven: Moses, taken from the earth up into heaven and saw the altar of God. Is that right? I'm trying to prove my point here. You know what I'm trying to do, don't you? All right. He went up in the Presence of God. And when he descended from the Presence of God, he said... God told Moses, "Make everything on earth as patterned after heaven." Is that right? All right.
Now, then when he did, when he made the ark of the covenant, he put two Cherubims to guard the ark. See what it is? It was the temple... It was the altar, the throne guards. The two Cherubims, He said, "Mold them out of brass and put their wings a touching like this," because that's exactly what he saw in heaven.
That's exactly what John saw in heaven, these four Cherubims on the four sides of the ark of the throne in heaven. They were the guards of the ark. Cherubims, guards at the mercy seat.
If you want to read that Scripture (We ain't got time to go to it.), put down Exodus 25:10 to 22.
Now, they guard the mercy seat when God is in His Shekinah Glory. Where was the Shekinah Glory? At the mercy seat. Is that right? They guard that Shekinah Glory. Um. Whew. Listen, friends. Then it goes to show that every scalawag can't come there and take of that. You've got to be prepared before you come into the Presence of it.

L-306 Look at Aaron, in type, Before... Now, remember, the congregation in them days couldn't even approach it in no manner. But when Aaron went in... How many times did he get to go into it? Once a year. How did he have... He had to have on certain clothes that was made with certain hands, a peculiar type of clothes. He had to be dressed in such a way. He had a pomegranate and a bell, that every time he walked it played, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." He was approaching the mercy seat with the blood.
And he had to be anointed with a certain oil, perfumed with a certain perfume made out of the rose of Sharon. And Jesus was that Rose of Sharon. And notice, a rose is a beautiful thing; it has perfume in it. But before the perfume can come out, the rose has to be crushed, and then the perfume is squeezed from the rose. Jesus, in His Life, was the most beautiful Life ever lived; but He couldn't remain that way, 'cause He had to anoint His church to approach His holiness, so His Life was squeezed out. And the same Holy Ghost was upon Him is put upon the church, and He makes Him the same yesterday, and today, and forever, the Rose of Sharon, the perfume thereof. Oh, the person that's approaching into this holiest of holies has to be anointed with the same Holy Spirit. And as he walks, "Holy, holy, holy, unto..." (not with a cigar in his mouth) "holy," (not with his collar turned around) "Holy, holy, holy," dressed in the holiness of Jesus Christ. Hm. How wonderful Thou art. Oh.

L-308 Now, "the mercy seat..." Now, the mercy seat's in the heart, seat where the shining forth of His--His Glory in all of His children, the Shekinah Glory in the human heart. Here's the human heart. Is that right? Is that the mercy seat? How do you come through it into that, through these different systems? Through self-will, self-will, comes into here, and through there comes out what? Shekinah Glory. What--what is the Shekinah Glory? It's God's Presence. And when a man's walking, or a woman, he's reflecting the Shekinah Glory. He don't go into gambling dens, and--and carry on, and go out here and deny the Word. No matter what the people says, he's got his heart set on one thing: God. And if he's truly called of God, then Jesus Christ reflects Himself through him with the Shekinah Glory, doing the same things He did back there, manifesting the same Gospel, preaching the same Word, same Word being made manifest in the same measure it was then; just like it was truly at Pentecost it's measured back again. Oh, my.


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