1. Part 1

2. This tour will settle once and for all how a sinful man can find a sinless God! When you find God you find forgiveness! When you find God you find peace! When you find God you find purpose!

3. So God met their physical needs (food and water); He met their social needs (Ten Commandments for law and order); but He also met their spiritual needs.

4. It was Portable in it’s Purpose. "Make Me a sanctuary, that I may tabernacle among them."

5. It was Permanent as a Portrait John 1.14, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." God tabernacled among us through His Son Jesus! And in Him dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead bodily!

6. Colossians 1.19, "For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell." 2.9, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Hebrews 8.5, "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 shewed to thee in the mount."

9. THE HOLY OF HOLIES The ark The mercy seat.

10. THREE SECTIONS: – THE OUTER COURT – THE HOLY PLACE – THE HOLY OF HOLIES.

11. THE EASTERN GATE

12. God designed the Tabernacle to show sinful man how he can approach sinless God including the gate!

13. THE EASTERN GATE

14. John 10.9, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." Matthew 7.13-14, " Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

15. Acts 4.12, "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." John 14.6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me."

16. We need to be so committed to helping people get through the gate that our attitude is, "Lord, whatever, whenever, regardless of cost we're willing to do it to help our culture get through the gate without compromising the message!"

17. Blue the color of heaven for He is the Sinless One

18. Purple the color of royalty for He is the Sovereign One

19. Scarlett the color of blood for He is the Sacrificial One

20. Did you notice the location of the gate? Isaiah 41.2- "Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? Matthew 2.2, 9-10, "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.”

21. THE EASTERN GATE TODAY