The way of the tabernacle paints a picture of the path to salvation, which is to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Priests would enter through the gate, present the sacrifice on the brazen altar, and then purify themselves at the laver (baptism of John).

This is where the "church" typically stops in its teaching of salvation; but, like the Samaritans in Acts 8 had done before Peter and John came to them, the churchian model stops short of the most important aspect of this progression, which is entering the Holy of Holies.

The lighted menorah, altar of incense, and the bread of the presence in the Holy Place represent guidance and nourishment from the Holy Spirit as He leads the believer into the Holy of Holies, which is to receive the covenant of marriage as Messiah Yahoshua's bride.

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The thief on the cross manifestly understood the path to salvation better than the highly educated pharisees. He provided the example of what is necessary to be born again, and he received his confirmation of that salvation directly from the Messiah Himself.

The truth

without the traditions of men . . .

the traditions of YAH

without slavery TO the written law.

While there is but one way to Yah, and it is through His Son Yahoshua the Messiah, there are currently some 41,000 “Christian” denominations in existence. That fact alone demonstrates that, since the time of Yahoshua's earliest followers in the New Testament, man has devised many different formulas and doctrines to determine and regulate what faith in Yahoshua looks like.

If one were to reduce every denomination down to its core reason for existence, he would find the desire for an assurance of salvation. Rather than relying on what scripture plainly teaches, and on what the earliest assembly of believers knew and understood, Yah's scriptures have been twisted, perverted, added to, and taken away from—all to provide some form of confirmation that, following the doctrinal distinctives of one's denomination, he is, indeed, saved.

Roman Catholics look to their sacraments, Charismatics embrace their version of the “gifts of the Spirit,” Protestants and Baptists proclaim that their eternal assurance comes from the written words of Yah's scriptures—the Bible. A relatively new movement touts adherence to the Hebraic perspective of the New Testament believer; however, they preach the ways of the Old Covenant, and essentially deny what the Messiah accomplished on the cross. Contrary to what we're taught in scripture, they preach the written law as a form of holiness.

And, while each of the myriad denominations possesses some grains of truth, they all have one thing in common—the fallacy of faulty human understanding. Combined, they are the equivalent of the Tower of Babel—man's attempts, through his own power, to reach Yah.

It's a shame, really, because Yah showed us the true faith with the earliest of His Son's followers, and that's exactly how we approach Him—through the entire perspective that New Testament believers had. They knew the things of Yah, from the feast days, and the temple ordinances and practices, to the traditions of the Jewish wedding. They fully understood the significance of the Passover Seder as a vivid picture of the perfect Lamb. They understood the path one must take to approach the Almighty, because it had been symbolized for them before their Messiah walked with them—and, they knew it as . . . the Way of the Tabernacle.

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