GOLDEN FAITH AND FOOL'S GOLD

May 18, 1998 a.m.
Michael F. Blume



There is a faith that Peter is speaking about that moves God to keep us safe by His supernatural power.
These prophets knew it was not for their day that certain PICTURES were given to them to speak about.

CHERUBIM ON THE MERCY SEAT

This ARK of the Covenant was placed deep in the TABERNACLE, mobile holy house, as the Israelites journeyed through the wilderness on their way to the Promised land, led by Moses. This is a good picture of people who have GOLDEN FAITH.

ATONEMENT

The cherubim on the mercy seat, or lid, of the Ark, were formed from gold and made to GAZE down at the Mercy Seat between them. ATONEMENT reconciled the people back to God and removed their sins. In their hearts they are trusting in that blood and nothing else to take them to heaven one day. THE ARK of the covenant was moved around from place to place until the end of the journey. This Temple was built high on a mountain called Moriah, where Abraham had once taken Isaac and offered him upon an altar, when God told him to stop, and showed him a RAM was there to take Isaac's place. No wonder God had them make the eyes of the cherubim always looking down on the place where the BLOOD of atonement was sprinkled! Israel took that same ARK and marched around the obstacle of JERICHO, and after seven days they shouted and the walls came down. They took the Ark and stood in the floodwaters of JORDAN, during flood season, and the waters split open as the waters of the Red Sea did 40 years before. This shows that the GOLDEN FAITH that deep inside a person looks to the fact that Jesus' death alone atones for our sins, moves God to keep us going until we reach the goal of the end!

Peter said, "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. "

What Peter is saying is that the ones who have TRUE GOLDEN FAITH, have faith that moves God to protect them from anything that seeks to stop their journey. There is a salvation to be revealed soon. GET THIS GOLDEN FAITH, and you will get that grace that is reserved for you at the end. John had the FAITH that moves God to protect. THE CHERUBIMS that looked at the mercy seat were made of solid gold and were one piece of Gold with the mercy seat. But if you have fools' gold faith, faith that is not the genuine article, then that faith cannot take it through the trials, and it burns away in the heat. Only those in the ark make it to the end! This ark is seen at the end of the world in a temple in HEAVEN.