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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – NOVEMBER 6

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Our Most Holy Place: Proper Care & Maintenance,

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Part 2:

“Daily Care & Maintenance”

To read Part 1, click here…FEBRUARY 27 (Our Most Holy Place: Proper Care & Maintenance)

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“Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary”

Psalm 77:13 

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Once a year, the High Priest entered into the Most Holy Place to carry out the most solemn and holy and final duties of the year-long temple rituals.

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And the chosen priesthood was the most solemn of all duties, requiring complete consecration before entering!

This was a life-and-death matter!

There was to be no flippancy nor lightness in the life of that High Priest!

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If he should go into that Most Holy Place with unconfessed sins, he was subject to being struck dead before he left that holy room!

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the Holy of Holies – www.thebiblerevival.com – Public Domain

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NEW TESTAMENT PRIESTHOOD: US!

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The New Testament tells us…

“But ye are a chosen generation,

a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…“

1st Peter 2:9

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Now, because we New Testament Believers have been chosen to carry on the duties of a “royal priesthood”.

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And God expects no less from us than He required from those priests of olden times!

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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – public domain

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KINGDOM OF GOD WITHIN US!

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Now we should never feel that we are priests without a tabernacle! The Lord reveals to us…

“for ye are the temple of the living God;

as God hath said, I will dwell in them,

and walk in them; and I will be their God…”

2nd Corinthians 6:16, 17

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So we, His Elect, are the true tabernacle…with Him, who is our High Priest, ministering along-side of us in our soul-temple sanctuary.

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DAILY PRAYER FOR AN AWARENESS

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And it would be wise to pray each and every day that God might give us an ongoing awareness that we are a Royal Priesthood. (1st Peter 2:9)

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And so, as that Royal Priesthood, we need to make sure that we keep our heart holy and undefiled.

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Girl Praying – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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UNGODLINESS IS EVERYWHERE!

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Now, living, working, or going to school in this Babylonish world, it is inevitable that we are going to encounter sin.

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We’re going to hear ungodly chatter and un-Christian, sensual music at times, as we walk through the stores.

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We may even be in a living situation which exposes us to ungodliness.

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In such situations, we patiently endure.

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Shoppers in Toronto – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike license

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NO EXCUSE FOR CARELESSNESS

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But because we will encounter sin in this world doesn’t mean that we should begin to take a careless attitude regarding ungodly influences.

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No, listen to the Wise Man, Solomon…

“Keep thy heart with all diligence;

for out of it are the issues of life. 

Put away from thee a froward mouth,

and perverse lips put far from thee. 

Let thine eyes look right on,

and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 

Ponder the path of thy feet,

and let all thy ways be established. 

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:

remove thy foot from evil.”

Proverbs 4:23-27

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The Bible constantly warns the Christian to be very careful about our heart!

After all, the heart is the “treasure chest of the mind”! 

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PS Krøyer – Hip hip hurra! Kunstnerfest på Skagen – 1888 – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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OUR PRIESTHOOD NOT GUARANTEED!

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Now the Bible is filled with warnings and threats, and we must never take these warnings lightly…

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Listen…“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

that thou shalt be no priest to Me:

seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,

I will also forget thy children.”

Hosea 4:6

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Don’t get the notion that this verse is merely for Old Testament priests! “Now all these things…are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1st Corinthians 10:11

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Tissot – The Two Priests Are Destroyed – Wikipedia – Public Dom.

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PLEAD FOR GRACE AND FOR PROTECTION

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And so, it is imperative that we begin each new day, pleading for God’s grace to keep away from indulging in the devilish Babylonish hub-bub and sensuality which pervades nearly every corner and crevice of today’s society!

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We are to be priests from morning through night! We need to plead for such a holy mind-set and seek for this blessing as for hidden treasure!

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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Please give me an exalted vision of what it means to be a Christian. Lead me into holiness, so that Christ may shine brightly from my soul…

Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Ark of the Covenant Constellation, Pt. 2: How To Enter The Most Holy Place”, or you can also read… “January 19th (Who Wants To Hang Out With Holiness?)” 

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

Info & pics of constellations on this site from Wikipedia & International Astronomical Union (click here)

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THE NARROW GATE STARS

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The sketch to left shows, the two doors are each composed of two bright stars. The two bright stars that comprise the Narrow Gate are the two brightest stars of the Orion the Reaper’s sickle. The two stars that comprise the ‘Wide Gate’ Stars are the two brightest stars of the wave of water that comes out of the Dragon Constellation’s mouth (for explanation of “Wave of Water”, just click here). The stars that make up the ‘Narrow Gate’ are about half the width of the Wide Gate (see sketch below left).

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(For more information on Orion’s sickle, just click here, “Orion The Reaper”. )

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Editor’s note: These sketches on this page are merely sketches. The stars are not in their exact place. However, they are close enough to find them in the night sky. But as with most stars, it takes persistence to finally locate them.

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Revelation 12 Woman & The Narrow Gate Stars (Orion’s Gate to Heaven)”

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TOMORROW…

NOVEMBER 7 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 25: “Did I Use Lightness?”)

Laughing – (cropped and color added) – Fotothek df roe neg – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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END OF THE CHURCH AGE STUDIES ON AUDIO

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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE INVITED AND ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING AUDIO BIBLE STUDY BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING.

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THIS STUDY IS PART 3, CONCERNING “THE END OF THE CHURCH AGE”

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Church Burning – Burning Man – 2013 – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.

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