Candlestick Study Part One

Earthly Temples.

Matthew 5:14-16 KJVS
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. [15] Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. [16] Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

Candlesticks hold the light that truth brings to all that are in house, and that light within that house cannot be hid.

There were ten candlesticks in Solomon’s temple.

1 Kings 7:49 KJVS
“And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side , and five on the left before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,“

The earthly temple was an example of the heavenly temple, however our Lord dwells in the temples that are not made with hands. We are the temple, the many membered body of Christ. He dwells within us and we in Him (John Chapter 14).

Acts 7:47-50 KJVS
” But Solomon built him an house. [48] Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, [49] Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? [50] Hath not my hand made all these things?”

Solomon built the earthly temple, and after he built it, he was soon taken by the temptation of many strange women.

1 Kings 11:1-5 KJVS
“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; [2] Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. [3] And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. [4] For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. [5] For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.”

These strange women in Solomons weakness also symbolize how the nakar (Kenites) infiltrate the house of Israel and cause Israel to turn their heart’s away from God and towards false worship. What these strange women brought in during Solomons time ultimately led to the Babylonian captivity that took place in 586 B.C.

Nebuchadnezzars captivity is a strong type of the captivity that the last king of Babylon (Satan and his role as antichrist) will do during Sixth Seal, Sixth Trump, and Sixth Vial.

Look at the word Strange in the Hebrew translation.

H5237
Original Word
נכרי
Transliterated Word
nokrîy
Phonetic Spelling
nok-ree’
Parts of Speech
Adjective
Strong’s Definition
From H5235 (second form);
{strange} in a variety of degrees and applications ({foreign } non-relative 6
{adulterous} {different } wonderful): – {alien} {foreigner} {outlandish} strange ({-r} woman).
Prime root the nakar. This foreign and strange worship leads to Idolatry.

2 Kings 25:8-9 KJVS
” And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: [9] And he burnt the house of the Lord , and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.”

In 586 B.C the temple that Solomon built was destroyed , and we see in 1st Kings Chapter 9 verse 6 through 9, what God said would happen if His children turned their hearts away from Him after that temple was built .Because of the abominations that were brought in by Solomon’s weakness and the continued practice within them, the destruction upon that house and the captivity of His children transpired eventually in 586 B.C.

Seventy years Gods children were held in Babylonian captivity, and this captivity is a strong type of the last half of Daniel’s 70th week.

In the middle of Daniel’s 70th week Satan will appear as the last king of Babylon and will take the third of the world’s population who are Christians in captivity spiritually.

Daniel 9:27 KJVS
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

After 70 years of Babylonian captivity, Zerubbabel which means sown or born in Bable, and others were used to build the new temple (See the Book of Ezra) while the children entered back into Jerusalem under Cyrus the king of Persia rule. Interesting to note that Cyrus was used at this point as a type for our Lord Jesus Christ.

There were ten candlesticks in the temple that Solomon built but it was destroyed by the king of Babylon, and after seventy years of captivity and entering back into Jerusalem, it didn’t take too long for the new temple to be infiltrated.

Ezra 2:58-62 KJVS
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two. [59] And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: [60] The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two. [61] And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: [62] These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.”

The Kenites who symbolize the strange women which are the nakar entered into Jerusalem with Israel after the seventy years of Babylonian captivity, and they were the Nethinims that sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy but were not found. They as polluted were put from the priesthood but put into the temple as servants.

Fast forwarding from that point to Jesus Christ’s first advent, our Lord cleaned out the temple (Matthew chapter 21:10 through13), and by repenting and believing upon Him through His death burial and resurrection, He allowed us to become a part of a true building and also gave us an opportunity through His Words to keep ourselves, which are part of the true temple clean (John chapter 15).

Through the Lords saving grace that has been made available to all through His bloodshed upon the cross, Jesus Himself being the Word that walked in the flesh (John chapter 1: 1 through 14) was crucified so He may resurrect and give eternal life to all that would believe upon Him and repent. Through His death burial and resurrection, He was also the Lamb that was slain worthy to open all seven seals of truth (Revelation Chapters 5 and 6) for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that understanding of the seals will keep that light shining who is Christ when most of the world become darkened by Satan’s deception in the middle of the five-month period at the sounding of the sixth trumpet.

Unfortunately, many people reject His Words today by receiving the seeds of deception from the Kenites throughout the final generation that started in 1948. They seem to be more comfortable under the influence of the Kenites four horns which are their fathers Hidden Dynasties that scatter, than receiving to the four carpenters (the Law, Prophets, Gospels and the Epistles) that make up His Word.

we are seeing at this time through the misinformation of these four horns that most of Gods children are on a pathway which will ultimately cause them to be taken away into Satan’s Babylon which is his confusion at the Woe of the Sixth Trumpet.

Zechariah 1:18-21 KJVS
” Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. [19] And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. [20] And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. [21] Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.”

The only way those horns are cast out is by the four carpenters that make up our Heavenly Fathers Word who is Jesus Christ ( John Chapter 1 verses 1 through 5 and 14).

This scattering by the four horns as opposed to the four carpenters that fray is done by Satan’s natural seed who are the Kenites (also known as the nakar) and are setting the course for the most of Christianity that is made up of the true building of Christ to ultimately be destroyed by last king of Babylon which is Satan’s role of antichrist in the middle of the five-month long hour of temptation.

However, this won’t be a physical temple that will be destroyed, it will be a third who are Christians (most of the many membered body of Christ) that will be spiritually destroyed by Satan’s deception, at the sixth trumpet that will sound in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week.

It will be in the middle of that week which was originally seven years shortened to a five-month period, that most of the light of men and women that are within the body of Christ will stop shining and will be removed far off into another city which is Babylon, in other words, Satan’s confusion.

To be continued.

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