You have just stepped inside the first Room of Mystery. There is only one way in and it is also the same way out – through the screen just behind you. That might give you pause, because the Veil that hangs across the room, on the other side of the Altar of Incense, is not another way out – it is the way to an even deeper spiritual life, and the Holy of Holies. However, I’ll cover that Veil in a later post.

You might have noticed in Scripture that ninety nine times God calls this tent His dwelling. He has brought you here to increase the measure of His dwelling within you. The impossible will become possible and you are here to prove it. Many can dwell in Him, few allow Him to dwell in them.

Within a couple of minutes your eyes have adjusted enough to see the three pieces of furniture that are spread around the room. But, there is more to see than just the furniture. Through the smoke that comes from the Altar of Incense directly across the room you will soon notice there are two more spellbinding matters that separate this room from any other room you have ever been in up to this point. The first of the two are the walls of Gold.

WALLS of GOLD
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The more adjusted your eyes become; you will eventually see there is an unearthly color to this room. That color comes from the reflected light of the flames of the Menorah/Lampstand bouncing off the two sidewalls of Gold. The color of the flame and the color of Gold create an Amber-esk color, which is strangely picked up by the white smoke and so the color, unaffected by gravity, literally seems to swirl and move through the air. That this room would have this Amber color makes sense in so much as, every time a color is ascribed to God in Scripture, it is described as the flame and gold color of Amber.

You may remember that in the Outercourt everything was made from polished brass, but here, in the first Room of Mystery, Gold is the predominate theme and it is everywhere. The only exception is the brass base of the Golden walls. Remember, the walls of the Rooms of Mystery are ten cubits high (fifteen feet) and twenty cubits long (thirty feet). That is a lot of Gold.

THE CHERUBIM COVERING
If you can unlock you gaze from the swirl around you and look up, you will see the white form of the twenty Cherubim woven into the Linen tapestry above you. This tapestry covers the entire length of the two Rooms of Mystery (Sanctuary). It is hanging over the outside of the Golden Walls and is directly above you. There is nothing separating you from them.

In this Holy atmosphere these Cherubim seem so real you almost expect them to fly – which is actually what they are doing above and around the Throne Room in Heaven. Remember, Moses had to construct exactly what he saw when God revealed the structure of Heaven to him (EX. 25). It is extremely hard to weave moving beings into a tapestry so the still ones will have to do, and there are twenty of them covering the length of the Sanctuary.

These Cherubim are to remind you that Heaven is watching you and involved with your life - daily and minute-by-minute of each and every day.

THE COLORS OF TOTAL COVERING
The same four colors, blue, purple, scarlet, and white cover not only the sides and top of these Golden Rooms or Sanctuary, but also the screen entrance to each room including the first curtain to the Tabernacle and the Interior Veil that divides the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. In this sense they depict four glorious aspects of Jesus and what He alone did to reconcile you to God the Father.

The blue represents the prophetic nature of Jesus, the Purple depicts the authority He has in Heaven and Earth, the Scarlet depicts His blood that was shed on the Earth, and the white depicts His sinless nature. You must pass through each of these to enter any room. There is no other way to God the father.  If it were not for these four aspects of the life of Jesus you would not be able to enter this or any room of the Tabernacle – let alone stand where you are. Jesus alone is the door, the Dalet, the way to the Father.

I’ll write about the “Dark Night of the Soul” and the relationship of the furniture to you in my next post a few days from now.
Blessings,
John Paul