7 Candlesticks and 12 loaves of Shewbread

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God deals separately with the Jews and the church

The Old Testament deals with the only nation that God ever chose, the 12 tribes of Israel. Eventually, their priesthood leadership got corrupted by power and money. A false leadership of Pharisees and Sadducees emerged.

The people learned to fear and trust their leaders until they were too scared to oppose their mistakes.

When Messiah came, the Jews were misled by the delusions of their leaders and they rejected Jesus as a Man.

God cut off the Jews and stopped using Hebrew as a language.

God turned to the Gentiles but they made the same mistake of elevating a false New Testament priesthood of Roman Catholics priests and bishops who added Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, Lent etc.

PROVERBS 30:5   Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

:6     Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Bible truth died and was buried in the dirt of the Dark Ages.

Truth began to revive when Martin Luther preached Salvation by faith and John Wesley preached holiness.

The Pentecostal spiritual gifts were poured out in Wales in 1904 and in Los Angeles in 1906.

The written mysteries of the King James Bible were revealed between 1947 and 1965 by the American prophet William Branham.

The Protestants made the big mistake of elevating a false priesthood of the five-fold ministry with the pastor being the head of the church.

The church has now split into 45000 different denominations and churches. Consequently, the true Head of the church, Jesus Christ as the Word of God (the King James Bible), is not wanted in the church and stands knocking on the outside. But is rejected.

As a result, our modern saved church-goers are all going to be cast into the horror of the 3½ years of great tribulation in order to lose their love of their corrupt church traditions and doctrines.

The seven candlesticks in the Book of Revelation represent the candlestick with 7 lamps that was in the Holy Place in the Jewish Tabernacle. The candlestick was together with the table of shewbread that held 12 loaves.

The vessels in the tabernacle formed a cross.

Thus they were reflecting events that will occur in the New Testament when the seven church ages unfold over 2000 years.

Notice the two key numbers 7 and 12.

Jesus is the Head of the church and saved people form His spiritual Body.

EPHESIANS 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church:

I CORINTHIANS 12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

The head is connected to the body by means of the backbone.

The first 7 vertebrae form the neck.

The next 12 vertebrae hold the ribs.

Jesus referred to these two numbers from two of His greatest miracles.

Feeding thousands of Jews from a schoolboy’s lunch of bread and fish.

MATTHEW 16:9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Jesus wants us to understand something. The important issue is not the thousands that were fed but rather how many baskets of rejected scraps the disciples picked up.

MATTHEW 16:10    Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

The number of baskets of rejected scraps of bread and meat was 12 and 7.

What must we understand about the rejected scraps that were collected?

Bread and meat represent doctrine.

The Jews would reject Messiah and the doctrines that He preached as unwanted scraps. The disciples would pick up the rejected Gospel and make sure that they took these New Testament doctrines out to the Gentiles who would come in during the future seven church ages.

Only the apostolic doctrines of the New Testament are valid as doctrine to feed the souls of future Christians.

The New Testament is the light of the world, represented by the 7 burning lamps of the candlestick.

The New Testament, which is based on the Old Testament, would be the light to guide the church through the totally different conditions of the seven church ages. When the church from 7 ages is resurrected and leaves this world as they are caught up to meet the Lord in the air, then the Gospel will go to the Jews, the 12 tribes of Israel, during the 3½ years of great Tribulation. The Jews will finally receive, from their two prophets, all the scraps of New Testament doctrine that their ancestors rejected 2000 years ago.

Jesus had a three-and-a-half-year ministry to the Jews. Then the Jews rejected Him.

God turned from the Jews to the Gentiles during the 7 church ages. The Holy Ghost came down on the day of Pentecost to guide the church through 7 church ages.

64-0209  COUNTDOWN

“He starts from His first church age, which begin at A.D. 33,

and He started the countdown. He counted His church ages.

That was the birth of the Church, on the Day of Pentecost.

He starts counting. He starts counting the church ages. First one, was Ephesus, number one;”

The Holy Spirit will leave the earth when the Holy Spirit catches the church up to meet the Lord in the air. Then God turns back to the Jews during the final three and a half years of the great Tribulation.

The 12 tribes of Israel are represented by the 12 loaves of shewbread.

I CHRONICLES 9:32 And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

The shewbread lasted 7 days, before 12 new shewbread loaves were baked to replace the old loaves on the next Sabbath.

The priests ate the old loaves in the Holy Place, while the shewbread had to stay in the Holy Place.

This means that God wants all the Jews to be back in Israel which is their Holy Land.

These 12 loaves symbolize the 144000 from the 12 tribes of Israel, at the end of the 7 church ages (at the end of the 7-day week), who have to be back in their Promised Land (symbolized by the Holy Place) to meet Messiah.

We have seen the Jews returning to Israel for the last century or so. The stage is being prepared for the return of Messiah to Jerusalem.

The 12 tribes of Israel are returning to the Promised Land at the end of the 7 church ages.

12 and 7 thus reveal a deeper meaning, a definite pattern in God's plan.