THE MERCY SEAT

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134 045 Over in the Old Testament He said, "Now, you shall make a--an ark." And He specified the wood, "acacia wood." Or you can make it out of this wood. It's called, in the Bible, "shittim wood," but it's really called "acacia wood." And you can make it the same thing, the ark. And said, "You shall make it and overlay it with gold."

Watch that ark, see if it typed Christ. Notice, it typed every time. Noah was a type of Christ, making a way, so was Moses.

Now, watch the ark of the covenant. He said, "You shall make it out of acacia wood and overlay it with gold." Anyone who knows the Scripture, know that gold speaks of Deity, and wood speaks of humanity. See He said, "You shall cover it, overlay it with gold, over the wood." That's Deity over the wood: Christ over the Church, inside and out, Deity, overlaid.

137 046 You'll have a lid on top of it. It'll be a Mercy Seat, and all the laws will rest in it. But before you...?... you sprinkle it over with blood. The law speaks of judgment. But between the law and the congregation, there was something for Deity stood in its place: type of Christ. Between the wrath of God, the judgment in hell, between that and the believer stands Deity Himself, Christ, standing in the way with an atonement made to save us from our sins and to heal us from our sickness. Deity stands in the way between judgment.

139 047 The law was a judge. The law judged, but the atonement stood between the confessed believer and the judgment. There laid the judgment in the ark, ready to come forth. But when it did, it couldn't, for there was an atonement standing between it and the believer. And the believer come and accepted Christ in the shadow and type, shed blood sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat, then he had mercy, and could walk away rejoicing, because he was free from judgment.

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but the Spirit." And when a man knows that he's died to the things of the world, and those that get in Christ Jesus, and walking according to the Holy Spirit, and not the ways of this sinful world, there's no condemnation to him. He can look in the face of hell and judgment and rejoice, because there's the Blood of Christ making atonement, standing between him and judgment. Amen. There you are.

The believer once in, the lid shut down, that settles it for all time. Amen. Gold, Deity laid over and underneath it, and all around it, wrapped up in Deity. Every man that's come into Christ is wrapped up in the Holy Spirit and become sons and daughters of God.

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152 052 Notice, put a crown on it. Why? It was the king. What did that gold crown laying on top of a box mean? It meant that here, with that gold laying over it, humanity was covered with gold. Blood sprinkled on top of it, and a crown laying on that.

What a perfect type of Christ and His Deity, His love. He come forth into the world and laid Himself over humanity, His Church, His believers. Upon that, He sprinkled His own Blood, and will save "whosoever will." And two Angels beat out of gold, and the wings pointing across each other at the Mercy Seat, where every believer come, confessing his sins, receive reconciliation for his sin.

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E-60 060 I'm so sorry I kept you late. Oh, I love Him. Just to think, we're living in the Presence of the King. Did you ever sing this old song?

Hallelujah, hallelujah;

I have crossed the riven veil where the glories never fail,

Hallelujah, hallelujah;

I am living in the presence of the King.

Hallelujah. Crossed the riven veil where the glories never fail, where the Shekinah Glory of God keeps alive, keeps from contaminating, keeps from indulging in the world, and sets aside, sanctifies the believer, taking all the things of the world, all the doubt and darkness from his mind, and putting a pure heart. God writing His laws, one time, and put it in the table under the ark. And today, the man living in the Shekinah Glory, under the Mercy Seat, God writes His laws upon his heart and preserves them.

I don't want to get started again. Amen. I'm so glad that we can live in the Presence of the King.

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E-28 Put Aaron's rod in there, an old dead almond tree. But as it went under the Shekinah Glory, everything it was, was restored again. That's the way a sinner is when he goes under the Shekinah Glory of the Holy Spirit, the veils drop behind him, everything that he ought to have been, a son of God blooms out in him again. Amen.

Remember, over night it budded, blossomed, and growed almonds on it, fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience. That's what we need to get in the third step, get over into the Shekinah Glory where that little sacred Light was hanging over the--the Mercy Seat. That's the place to stay, where the manna, pot of manna set down by the ark. That's the place to live. The curtains is dropped behind you. Out in the outer courts where the justified stay, there was daylight. Sometimes we have that was the--the lights of the firmament; they had all kind of light out there. It'd be dark sometime, day sometime, spotted, no certainty.

E-30 When a man went into the inner veil, the second veil, he was hid from the world; the curtains dropped around him. And when we can lose ourselves in Jesus Christ, don't care what your denomination is, them things don't bother you any more, you're just lost in Christ. Don't care what the howling mobs around say, you're lost in Christ. Amen.

There's where the Shekinah Glory, where the Light, that Halo, that little Ball of Fire, that come in behind the altar, and went down, and settled on the Mercy Seat, where the Blood was. And there that Light lit up the room.

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E-34 Now, when this man looked in the face of the Lord Jesus, He was anointed. He was the anointed God. Here He was standing there, the anointed Man, God in the Man. And when he did, there was something caught the man...?... He said, "Have compassion on us." Now, he's on the right grounds. He's coming on the grounds of pleading mercy. He's coming to the Mercy Seat. And that's the only way you'll ever get anything from God, is come to the Mercy Seat, not judgment, not upon self, but upon the mercies of God.

Now, he's on the grounds for healing. There's no "if" in it. He's placed it on Jesus now. Watch. No more, "Sir," now he says something different. It's Jesus then places it right back on him. He said, "Oh, canst thou believe? Can you turn Pastor, Rabbi Jones down over here? Can you cast all this doubt away from you? Canst thou now believe?"

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E-35 And the father looked Him in the face, said, tears running down his cheeks, something had struck him. A change had come in his heart that very moment, and he said, "Lord, I believe. Forgive me," so many words, "forgive me for my unbelief. All this time I've tried to believe the Pharisees. I've doubted when the disciples failed. Forgive me, Lord, of my unbelief," and with tears rolling down. The Spirit of God had struck his heart, and he said, "Lord, I believe. Forgive me of my unbelief or the Bible quotes it, "Help Thou my unbelief," but it's "Forgive my unbelief."

There he stands. What is it? Now, watch. A few moments ago he was "Sir, if thou can." But when Jesus caught his attention, it wasn't "Sir." Capital "L-o-r-d." What happened? When he come to the Mercy Seat, he found mercy. Hallelujah. I know you'll think I'm crazy; maybe I am. Let me alone though, I'm happy this way.

Look. "If thou can." Pastor, I believe you have been right. "If thou can," and He looked at him. Said, "How long has he been this a way?"

He said, "Since a youth." He said, "And have mercy on us." Mercy Seat he had found forgiveness, ask forgiveness, and repented and now "Lord, I believe. Forgive me of my unbelief." Lord, "Lord" means "ownership."...?... that I am...

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E-50 When Jesus died, He cleansed all the world of sin, but you have to accept it. You have to accept your pardoning, or God would destroy the world. The very first sin was committed God would rock her off of her place, 'cause He's holy. And His Words are right.

Before He could even talk to Adam and Eve He had to make a sin offering there with a lamb. That's the reason that they can have rocks-and-rolls and all kinds of vulgar in the world tonight, and God doesn't take their life, or skip the world off, is because that Blood is a laying on the Mercy Seat. But one of these days that's Blood's coming off the Mercy Seat and then it's judgment. I don't know; it may be off before that clock gets nine-thirty. I don't know. Then she'll be dark and there'll be nothing but judgment. You've passed your own judgment with the attitude you taken towards His Son and the atonement.

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E-12 Let's do that after we read the Word and study for the next forty-five minutes. Let us pray.

O Lord, it is a gracious thing to come into the Presence of God. And we know that You hear, because You promised You would. And we're so happy to know that we have a Saviour that's a--the only Mediator between God and man, that's at Your right hand today to make intercession upon our confession. Anything that we should confess that Jesus has done for us, then You are there to make that good. There is a bloody sacrifice laying on the Mercy Seat today. And we are so happy to know that we have a right to come through to that; for when we come to God, we want to come boldly. Not because that we think we're deserving, but because we have been bidden to come by the Lord Jesus, Who said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I will do it." Oh, how perfect that is.

And let our assurance today rest solemnly upon Thy Word, for It is Truth. And as it is written, "Let every man's word be wrong or a lie, and God's be Truth." And we're coming today, Lord, help us to nail down and clench on the other side Thy Words of faith, that we might go out of here today better people than we were when we come in. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, and for His sake, Amen.

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23 015 God have mercy on us. Brother, I'd like to live in this life, in my desire, till if even the least bit of His grieving, I'll know it in my heart; if I should do something that would grieve Him, I'd be able to feel it just in a moment. See? Let alone, His absence, I don't want to be here when He's not here. I want to be gone then. Yes, sir. For there'll be no Blood on the Mercy Seat; it'll be dark and smoky and black. The sanctuary will have no Lawyer there to plead our case at that time. You know the Scripture says that? The sanctuary was smoking. There was no Blood on the Mercy Seat, then it's judgment.

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E-34 But He took the Blood to the Mercy Seat. And only He, alone, could go in once a year. But when Jesus died, on the day of the atonement, He rent the veil in two. Not only the high priest, but whosoever will may come anytime into the Shekinah Glory of God by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, into a real Pentecostal fellowship (Amen), into a place in the Presence of God, where the power of God cleanses us from all unrighteousness. We become new creatures in Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost falls upon us and all of our backwardness and shameness, we become into a relationship with God. Isn't the Church the Bride? Well, shouldn't the Bride be bringing forth children crying, "Abba, Father"

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226 096 And he went there and offered the blood on the Mercy Seat once a year. And while he was in there, he was privileged to see the Shekinah Glory, when the Pillar of Fire, the emerald Light that come down, that led the children out of Israel. He even smoked up the temple so no one could see it. The glory of the Lord fell till it was all smoked up. And He came in Hisself, went in behind the veil and settled down on the Mercy Seat in the holiest of holies, most holy place, it's called, holy of holies. And he had to be dressed a certain way, walk a certain way, anointed a certain way. He was a special person to go in there. How the congregation must've envied him.

But when Jesus died, the temple veil rent. Not only a high priest, but whosoever will can have that same anointing of the Shekinah Glory and walk a holy life, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord," and approach in the very Presence of God, through the Blood of Jesus Christ before him. Take him in a "Lord Jesus, here lays a sick man; he's my brother. He's on the death bed right now to die. I'm approaching You." Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord.

"What for?"

"As a high priest."

"What for?"

"In behalf of my brother." Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord.

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233 099 As we seen them... Now, that was God's throne in heaven. Moses patterned it on earth, was God's throne because His judgment seat was represented here on earth in the holy of holies. God... All Israel come to that one place to find mercy, 'cause God only met under the shed blood.

Now, listen close. Then the Shekinah glory raised from that Mercy Seat one day, and it settled on another Tabernacle (Amen.), this One, "The Father judges no man, but He's committed all judgment to the Son": God's Judgment Seat. "You speak against Me, it'll be forgiven you," speak another--another One coming, another Mercy Seat. Speak... You can speak against the Son of man, and I will forgive you; but someday the Holy Spirit will come to dwell in the hearts of the people, one word against It will never be forgiven."

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89 Now, these elders setting upon the throne with his crown. Now, the 5th verse, we're going to start. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings... thunders, voices: and there was seven lamps on fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Oh, I love this. Don't you? Oh, I--I just feel like my coat fits me, you know. I just... when... Oh, I mean in a spiritual coat, of course, you know. All right.

"Out of the throne..." Let's speak of this throne now for a few minutes. This was not a throne of mercy; mercy's throne is finished. No more mercy, it's without mercy. How are we going... How is the judgment seat going to be the judgment seat of Christ, the judgment seat, the white throne judgment? Is there going to be mercy then? There is not one speck of mercy to be given. At the judgment throne you could scream "mercy" till you couldn't scream no more, and you just might as well scream out in the air somewhere, 'cause there's no more mercy.

92 045 Now, is the day of mercy. Now, let's go back in the Old Testament here just a little bit and find out what mercy is. Go on back and see what happened to this throne. This throne, of course, is the--the judgment seat. And the--the reason today that there is mercy, is because the Mercy Seat is sprinkled with an atonement: Blood. And as long as Blood is on the judgment seat then it is not judgment no more; it's mercy; because Something died to stay judgment. If you see it, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] As long as Blood is on the Mercy Seat, showed that Something died to hold judgment back. But when the church is raptured, the Mercy Seat becomes a judgment seat.

93 046 Over in the Old and the New Testament here too, "And the sanctuary..." That's where the--the jury in the sanctuary, the judge on the seat in the sanctuary... Now, that judgment seat and the sanctuary become full of smoke. What was it? Like Mount Sinai, judgment. Mercy had left the--the throne of God. God will judge the world without mercy. How many knows that?

Only one thing He'll recognize in that day; what is It? Blood. That's the only thing that appeased an angry God.

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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.

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326 140 Here. Mercy, m-e-r-c-y s-e-a-t, "Mercy Seat," nothing could come anywhere around it without crossing those tribes. Crossing what? The lion; crossing the man, intelligence of the man; and crossing the workhorse, as an ox; by crossing the eagle, the swiftness of it. See? The heaven, the earth, in between, and all around... You see, they were guards. And above it was the Pillar of Fire. Brother, nothing touched that Mercy Seat without the approach...

And the only thing that could approach it was through the blood. Aaron went in there once a year with the blood. Now, you see it?

Now, watch. Each head of three tribes guarding the Mercy Seat, the Mercy Seat of the Old Testament... Now, have you got that down, everybody? Now, here's a brand new one, brother. Listen to this, then we'll go. Now, remember, that was the guards of the Old Testament. How many's ever read it in the Bible, you know that that's right? See, that's the guards of the Old Testament.

328 141 Now, we're living in another age. Glory. Oh, I love this age. Don't you? Now, God has a Mercy Seat today to be guarded. You believe that? Where's the Mercy Seat found? In the heart of man. Where did it come in the heart of man? At the day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost (which is God) come into human hearts. Is that right? Now, let's mark this down here, and get ready to draw it if you want to. Pentecost, P-e-n-t; I'll put: Pentecost. This is the Mercy Seat, the Holy Ghost. Put in here... I'll tell you what, make it more appropriate, let's put in here the "Dove" which means the bird. See? All right, guarding the Mercy Seat, now has God got guards for the Mercy Seat today? Now that... Now, watch how beautiful it's drawed out.

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331 143 Now, remember, God's got some guards for that--for that Mercy Seat. What is that Mercy Seat guard? All right. M-a-t-h, Matthew, on the east; Luke--Luke, Mark, and John. All of their four Gospels vindicate the Book of Acts to come; they guard it anywhere you want to look at it.

Let's just take one, just one, we ain't got time. I got twenty or more wrote down here, but let's just take one on this subject for salvation. Are we going to have time to pray? No, it's one o'clock, so I guess we won't have it unless you all want to pray for the sick. Now, I got--I got, yeah, plenty of time. See? [A brother says, "Stay all day."--Ed.] All right.

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E-50 Notice what taken place. Here he was, anointed, went in behind that place, and they could just listen, hear them bells. Aaron standing in the Shekinah Glory by the Mercy Seat where the cherubims had their wings tipped over it, the guards of the Mercy Seat. And they could listen in there. Oh, how their hearts longed to go in there. "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." And know that what it did to Aaron. Oh, he lived from year to year to go in. And how the regular congregation couldn't go in, yet they were living under the blood, but yet not into the Shekinah Glory.

But when the true Blood came, the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, He broke down the middle wall of partition, He tore down the curtain from top to the bottom. And now the believer, whosoever will, let him come into the Shekinah Glory. And a man through justification, believing the Word, sanctification, clean him from his sins, he's a subject to enter into the Pentecostal Shekinah.

God did the same thing on the day of Pentecost when He had saved the church through justification, Romans 5:1, sanctification, He... I believe it was Saint John 17:17 said, "Sanctify them, Father, through the truth: for Thy Word is the truth." But on the day of Pentecost the middle wall of partition had been tore down, the curtain was rent from top to bottom at Calvary, and the believer entered into that Shekinah Glory, and the power of God fell upon them. "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord," went the praises and glories in unknown tongues. And out of there they come shouting and rejoicing.

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E-88 Did you ever notice how Solomon built his temple? Listen close. When you entered into the door, what happened? There was angels carved out of olive wood with their wings tipping across, that every worshipper coming to the holy seat, come right down across the tips of these angel's wings, right down to the Mercy Seat, right down to the altar. You know the order of Solomon's temple.

Well, what is an angel? A messenger. Get the dictionary and find out what an "angel" means. Some of them's heavenly messengers, some of them's earthly messengers, that God dwells in to bring His earthly message. And these are messengers, angels of the Lord, messengers to you. And they're standing there with their hands out to obey what God says. "Lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." It has to happen. Doesn't it? Do you believe that every one of you coming through?

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75 031 Now, we find out that they were the guards to the Mercy Seat. They watched the Mercy Seat. Nothing come to it; it crossed over the tribes first before it could get to the Mercy Seat. Every man willing to give his life, every Israelite in camp would die before anything could enter into that camp over there and take that Mercy Seat. And now, we find out that was the Old Testament order.

And in the New Testament order we find the same thing, that it was guarded, the Mercy Seat. Oh, I hope you get it. The Mercy Seat is still guarded, still got the guards. We found out that those guards are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, guarding the Book of Acts, the acts of the Holy Spirit done amongst the apostles, which is the--the Book of Acts of the New--of the New Testament. And the four writers of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all guard that Mercy Seat to show that it is God, the Holy Spirit today. Each Scripture, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, every one of them will back up the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the acts of the Holy Spirit.

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60 And the very word "church" means "called out," exodus, "come out." Each one of us, as Christians, has had an exodus in our life. We had a time where we were called out from amongst our associates, called out from amongst the people that we once fellowshipped with, and become a different people, to walk with a different people that acted a different way and talked a different way. It was an exodus in our life.

Very fine example Israel gave us of when God called them out. They had an exodus, and came out from amongst the--the peoples of the world, and become a separated nation, unto God, a peculiar people. They walked under the shadows of the Mercy Seat. They lived and walked by the great Pillar of Fire. And God brought them from Egypt to the land that He had promised.

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E-15 Our heavenly Father, again tonight we are approaching Thy--Thy SEAT OF MERCY, for we have been bidden by our Lord to come, saying, "If you will ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, we know that those Words are true, so we are coming to the seat of mercy while it's still sprinkled with the Blood of the Lord Jesus, crying out, "Father, forgive them." For, Father, truly we do walk sometimes and stumble as it was, because we're walking in a dark world. And all that we have is just the light of the Gospel, the Holy Spirit, to guide us, or we'd tumble off into dark eternity without a hope, without God.

But we're so glad that Thou has made a way for those who's been called to the wedding supper. And what a privilege it is tonight to be assembled with a group, those people setting present now, that's been invited to the wedding supper, dressing, making ready now for the wedding to come. We're so thankful for this.

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25 018 Therefore, we know that we're at the end time; we're here. I don't know how far away; I--He--I... He will never let us know that, because His coming will be as a thief in the night. But, friend, my brother, sister, let's us be ready regardless. Let's just chaste ourselves. See, because the world will go right on. They'll never even know it's happened. When the doors of mercy's closed, preachers will be preaching salvation, be (See?), causing people to repent, going right on just like it always did. It did in other ages and it did in--it will in this age. And the rapture will be so sudden and so quick that the world will never even miss them, that they're gone. That's right. They'll know nothing about it. He comes and slips Her away. It'll be gone; they know nothing about it. So be in prayer. Pray for me. I pray for you. We don't know when that hour will be, but we believe it'll be soon. And stay away from shiny things. Stay with the Gospel. See? Stay right there now and pray.

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105 055 In the Old Testament God was hid when He was on His Mercy Seat--on the Mercy Seat by a veil. In the Old Testament God was in His temple. But the people come in and worship like this; but remember, there was a veil (Amen.) that hid God. They knowed God was there. They couldn't see Him. That Pillar of Fire never appeared anymore there. Did you notice? There's not one time in the Scripture, from the time that Pillar of Fire went in behind that veil, that It ever showed again till It come from Jesus Christ. God was veiled.

When He stood on earth, He said, "I come from God and I go to God."

Then Paul (after His death, burial, and resurrection), on his road to Damascus, there was that Pillar of Fire again. What was It? Out from behind the veil. Glory to God. He was from behind the veil.

108 056 Now, He was behind what? Skin veil (See?), badger skins, behind the veil. And when that veil was rent on the day of crucifixion, the veil that He was wrapped in was rent on the day of the crucifixion, the whole Mercy Seat came into view.

111 058 But since Pentecost, since the crucifixion, when that veil was rent from the top to the bottom, for that generation... Jesus was that God, veiled. And when He died at Calvary, God sent fire and lightning and ripped that veil from top to the bottom, that the whole Mercy Seat was in plain view. But they were too blind to see it. As Moses said here, Paul said, reading of Moses, "When Moses is read yet, that veil is still on their heart." Oh, brother, sister, that's what the Jews did when the veil was rent and brought God into plain view, hanging on the cross. He was in plain view, but they couldn't see It.

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117 062 Now--and one time, and if a man walked through that veil, it was sudden death. Now, it's death not to go through it. Amen. If you can't break that veil of tradition, break through that wall of denomination to see God in His power, it's death. Once where it was death to go in, now it's death to stay out. The whole Mercy Seat's setting in plain view; anybody can see It; the veil's rent. Glory to God. The whole Mercy Seat comes into plain view.

118 063 How God could have mercy on foul sinners as us, when He hid Himself, was a mystery. And now It's in plain view, or in full view, revealed by His Word. It's always the Word, constantly; that is God. It's the Word that opens it up. If those people would've knowed the Word of God that day when Jesus died, they'd have seen the Mercy Seat, they would've seen Who He was.

"Who was that then? Why did the veil rent?" Remember, it's death to go into it; nobody could see it. Moses saw It in a form, It was a whirl... It was a--a man's back. But here It is, a bleeding back, that same Man. What was It? God wanted to show them the Mercy Seat; God wanted to show them Who He was. So the veil in the temple, from the hand of God above, was rent from top to the bottom and showed God in plain view. It was Jesus Christ hanging on the cross, the Mercy Seat. And what was it? The people were too blind to see It.

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13-3 039 Now, when the veil was rent at Calvary, the Mercy Seat came into plain view, but what happened? It was hanging on Calvary, dripping in Blood. As they had took blood year after year at the cleansing of the sanctuary and the sprinkling of the Mercy Seat, there, God, with His great, mighty stroke of lightning power, split the old badger veil from top to bottom, and the Mercy Seat came into plain view. The real genuine Lamb of God was hanging in plain view on Calvary, the real Mercy Seat, when God had paid the price Himself and become one of us, and had manifested Himself as a man to get acquainted with us and we to be acquainted with Him.

13-4 040 The Mercy Seat was in plain view of all Israel on that day of the Atonement. But alas, the traditions of the church fathers in that day had, by their traditions, had veiled the true Mercy Seat from the people. If they would've knowed the Scripture, each piece would've come like the Chinese tag. The Old Testament prophecy would've been fulfilled, and it was. And if they'd been taught the Scripture, they would've seen the Mercy Seat.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION? JEFF IN 65-0725E

30 013 Now, it had been a very weary, nervous day, and it was an unusual day. We find Jesus here coming up to Jerusalem, ready to attend the passover. And the passover is where the pascal lamb was killed, and the blood was spread upon the Mercy Seat for the--the atonement for--for the people. And He had come up from Bethphage and had come to the top of the Mount of Olives, which looks down upon another little hill where Jerusalem was built. As He looked, He knowed that this was His final visit.

This was the time that when He would be delivered into the hands of sinful man and they would kill Him. He would die the horriblest death that was ever died by a mortal, and be buried. He'd be betrayed by His Own, some of them standing right with Him. And Him, being God, knew what was in their hearts and knew from the beginning who would betray Him. And knowed that man was with Him who set by His side and counted His money to Him, and so forth, knowed that man would betray Him. And knew that a cruel Roman cross waited for Him out there. He knew that His water in His body and the Blood of His body would separate, and that the Blood would drop off of His forehead in great big drops like perspiration. He knew all that was before Him. And He stands upon the mountain, looking over to Jerusalem.

24-1 REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 1

In Revelation 15:3 it says, "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the LAMB, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Saints." Do you see it? The LAMB, the High Priest holding His blood as an atonement on the Mercy Seat for our sins is the Lord God Almighty. That is His present office. That is what He is doing now, pleading His blood for our sins. But one day that Lamb will become the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He will come forth in power and glory and take His authority to reign as King. He is the coming King of this earth. Of course, that does not say He is not King now. For He is our King, King of the Saints. Right now it is a spiritual kingdom. It is not of this world system even as we are not of this world. That's the reason we act different from the world. Our citizenship is in heaven. We reflect the Spirit of the world of our rebirth where Jesus is the King. That is why our women do not dress in men's clothing or cut their hair or use all those cosmetics and other things that the world likes so much. That is why our men don't drink and smoke and carry on in sin. Our dominion is the dominion over sin and it is in force through the power that is in the Spirit of Christ That in-dwells us. Every kingdom on earth is going to be torn down, but ours will remain.

PATMOS VISION - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 2

50-3 Now examine this lampstand. You will notice that it has a large bowl, or reservoir, that is central to seven arms that come out of it. This bowl is filled with olive oil which flows through seven wicks which are placed in the seven arms. It is the same oil that burns and makes a light at the end of the seven pipes. This light never went out. The priests just kept pouring oil into the bowl.

50-4 The lamp was lit in a special way. First, the priest took fire from the sacred altar which was originally lighted by the fire of God. He lit, first of all, the lamp that was sitting on top of the bowl. He then lit the second lamp from the flame of the first lamp. The third lamp received its fire from the second lamp, as did the fourth receive its from the third, and so on, until all the seven lamps were burning. This holy fire from the altar, being passed from lamp to lamp, is a wonderful type of the Holy Spirit in the seven Church Ages. The original outpouring of Pentecost (which outpouring came direct from Jesus on the Mercy Seat) is enduing His Church through all the seven ages, and showing forth perfectly that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever, the never changing God in His essence and His ways.

51-1 In John 15, Jesus said, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." He is the main Vine, that which comes out of the original root from the original seed that has the life in it. Now the vine does not bear fruit; it is the branches that do that.

We Are The Vessels Of Mercy

ROMANS 9:22,23

[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,