"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: 

of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

And this is the offering which ye shall take of them;

gold, 
and silver,
and brass, 

and blue,
and purple, 
and scarlet, 
and fine linen, 
and goats’ hair,

and rams’ skins dyed red,
and badgers’ skins, 
and shittim wood,

oil for the light,
spices for anointing oil,
and for sweet incense,

onyx stones,
and stones to be set in the ephod,
and in the breastplate.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. 

According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it."

Exodus 25:1-9 KJV

Ever since I came to the Lord and begun to live my life for Him completely, my greatest desire was to have a visual representation of His Holy temple.

I truly believe that it is an important element in the learning process and spiritual growth of every Christian to fully understand the purpose of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem as well as the full function of the priests and the High Priest.

There are many other very important topics that relate to the Holy Temple. 

These are just a few that need to be mentioned. 

The Blood sacrifices,
The Tabernacle and
The Ark of the Covenant.

When it comes to understanding worship, especially when it comes to understanding worship, dealing with topics such as these will help you to be ushered into the Presence of the Living God.

As we get a heavenly visual of God's Divine order of things, our understanding of the most Holy will of God for our lives becomes clearer. These important but very critical topics, I feel, are essentials for spiritual growth and mountain moving faith in the life of every Christian.

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Our beloved Moses, the greatest prophet of the Old Covenant, set about building the desert Tabernacle and all of its furnishings only after he was first granted a heavenly vision of the structure in very fine details.

We too need to have a vision of both what God is doing in our lives and the Divine order He has set for worship from before the foundation of the world.

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From The Western Wall In Jerusalem

The Scriptures states,

"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them."

"According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it."

Exodus 25:8-9 KJV

The Temple Mount, which Arabs refer to as the Haram al-Sharif and on which today the Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, is the site on which the biblical King Solomon erected his Temple nearly 1000 years before the Common Era. Please read I Kings 5:15 through 1 Kings 7:51. 

This First Temple was destroyed by the armies of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century BCE, and was replaced by a Second Temple some seventy years later. 

The Second Temple was destroyed in the year 70 C.E. by Roman armies, whose victory was immortalized in the Arch of Titus that may be seen in Rome to this day.

Jews have venerated the site of the two Temples and have made pilgrimages there for two thousand years. 

According to some rabbis, Jewish law prohibits Jews from entering the Temple Mount before undergoing rituals of purification that are not currently practiced; partly as a result of this prohibition, Jews for millennia have prayed at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, outside the Mount proper.

It would be that in the days of old, when the children as well the people of Israel would journey to the Holy City to celebrate the Pilgrim Festivals, that they would stand awestruck at the sight of the Temple.

The Talmud describes how the priest of Israel would go out of their way to display the Temple's beauty to the many visitors. 

For example, they would open the Holy of Holies and allow the celebrants to see the cherubim atop of the Holy Ark embracing like husband and wife.

Their embrace indicated Divine predilection, and the priests would therefore exclaim before the people,

"See how greatly you are cherished before God!"

Yoma 54a

Of course this was indeed one of the objectives of the pilgrimages. It was designed to make an indelible impression of the Temple on all who would lay their eyes on it.

The visitors, however, would be moved not only by the outer, physical beauty of this imposing edifice; they would be awe by its inner, spiritual content, the ALL PERVASIVE DIVINE PRESENCE OF THE LIVING GOD.

This idea is supported by the very profound words of the Maimonides when he tells us that

"just as the children as well as the people of Israel would come to the Temple to appear before the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so they would come to see HIS splendorous sanctity and the house of His Divine Presence."

Hilkhot Hagigah 2:1

Even though the Temple laid waste many hundreds of years ago, the Temple has survived in the mind of man. Jews of all generations have persisted in exploring every aspect of its magnificent and complex structure and intricate sacred service.

Many have pondered and probed as best they could the mysteries of the Holy Temple. Yet they pack the instruments needed to give concrete form to their studies.

I have personally seen a huge number of thoroughly researched paintings and scaled-to-size gold and silver reproductions of Temple vessels, instruments and vestments that are presently on display at the Temple Institute in the city of Jerusalem.

These amazing works of art have been fashioned by accomplished , contemporary Israeli craftsmen. 

They patiently await the day when priests will take them again and ascend the Temple Mount to perform the sacred service in the Holy Temple of God, as in the days of old.

I am proud to say that Shout Of Victory Ministries is honored to present our readers and partners this work in progress. 

It is designed to bring our readers and partners understanding, mental panorama visual representation of the Holy Temple.

The outstanding and often moving account presented in the scriptures, beginning in the book of Exodus and including the Jewish Sages and Talmud, is the fruit of much labor and study. 

I know that some of you have been taught not to read many of the sacred books including the Apocryphal Books and indeed you should not until you have read the Holy Bible from cover to cover and have a clear understanding of what the Word of God really says and teaches.

But if you are a real student of the Scriptures and love to read everything that pertains to the God of Israel, like me, you will enjoy these series of articles that deal with the Holy Temple of God in Jerusalem and its history.

Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I will try to do justice to the much detailed work of the Holy Temple and how, as a believer in Yeshua, affects our walk, faith and every day ministry in these the last days before the return of Messiah.

Much of the material that will appear in this series of articles will be presented for the very first time. 

It will be presented in an organized, systematic, and comprehensive form, it will allow all who come to read and understand the secret of the sages to dive deeply into the subject.

These series of articles will be perfect for fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and students, scholar and layman. It will allow all to have a greater understanding of the Holy Temple of God and its sacred vessels used in times past to minister to Him that lives.

As we partake together in a vision of the Temple and its vessels both spiritually and visually, it is my most sincere prayer to the Holy Spirit of the Living God of Israel that the articles presented here during the course of the years will bring a clear understanding to all who would come and visit. 

I pray that it would allow the reader to enter into the Holy Sanctuary and stand before God and have a closer walk with Him that walked the earth.

In My Own Words
Edmund DeSoto

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