But we can even go further back than that and see that we can go into eternity
past and see that the house of God existed prior to even Jacob discovering
Bethel okay in fact the worldly sanctuary that Moses constructed in the
book of Exodus under the the leadership of Moses was actually patterned after
the heavenly sanctuary okay look at Hebrews chapter number eight in verse
number four this is the house of God from eternity past look what it says in
verse number four it says for if he were on earth he should not be a priest
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law who serve
unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all
things according to the pattern show to thee in the Mount go to chapter number
nine if you would chapter number nine so in chapter eight we see that the
tabernacle was an example it was a shadow of things to come but it was
patterned after something that Moses had seen or that God revealed unto Moses
that was from heaven look at Hebrews 9 verse 8 it says the Holy Ghost is
signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while
as the first tabernacle was yet standing which was a what figure for the time
then present and which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make
him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience go skip
down to verse 23 it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in
the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these so what we see what the physical tabernacle
in the Old Testament is that that's where they would go to do the animal
sacrifices on a daily basis on a yearly basis but you know it's impossible that
the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins right and so that
tabernacle is simply a pattern of something that was in heaven this is why
when Jesus Christ died what happened when he after he descended he ascended
into heaven and he spread his own blood on the mercy seat of the tabernacle
which is in heaven that's the real tabernacle the tabernacle that was here
on this earth during the time of Moses was simply a figure there was a pattern
it was patterned after that the physical tabernacle or the spiritual tabernacle
in heaven he says in verse 24 for Christ is not entered into the holy places made
with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now to
appear in the presence of God for us over and over again we see this figure
pattern the example what is that telling us it's telling us that the house of God
has always existed somewhere amen