The blue of the sky indicates dept and the virtual eternal reaches of the heavens. There are many debts, the atmosphere, the outer atmosphere, our solar system, and outer space with its hidden mysteries far out where multiple solar systems hide just out of sight. What does it speak to us?
The white fluffy clouds that drift in our sky are so beautiful, full and intriguing. However, when you listen to the Spirit he tells us that they are of little value. All they have to offer us is show and empty promises. Like miniseries that inhabit the atmosphere of the religious realm that brings nothing for spiritual growth, though they hold out intriguing ideals, and stir our imaginations and emotions.
If we wait long enough different kinds of clouds appear. These clouds do not appear friendly and are noisy, filled with spears of fire. These clouds come with cleansing and revealing, and then pass leaving a blessing behind to stimulate and bring growth on the earth. These are spiritual clouds, ministries of the Holy Spirit and fire. They wash away the filth of contamination with the flesh. Though their passing is not pleasant at the moment to most, to others it is a refreshing and we drink in the spiritual life it brings and like a sprout we stretch upward to stand taller in the heavens.
Then at times there comes destructive clouds, with judgment in their winds and warning in their passing. That which is build by man is shaken, even crumbling and falling into heaps of rubble. This is very disturbing, and it leaves us shaking in it power and ferocity. Many rage at the clouds, defiantly struggling to hold that which is shaken and threatens to be destroyed. And when the storm is passed, some set about repairing the damages, while others suffer such great loss that they just move on.
This is Yah's plan for this realm of heaven here at hand. All that is not build on the solid rock will come crashing down, because when it is build by man it is only wood, hay and stubble. It is here in this realm that we hear the call to come a little higher.
Man is not suited for life in the realm of the outer atmosphere and can not go there without help, and that is where the work of the Holy Spirit comes in. In the inner atmosphere are gifts that allow us to see in a broad scope where we have been, and look into the outer atmosphere with expectation where we hope to go. Only through the power of the Holy Spirit can we see through the lens of divine revelation that which lies beyond our limited sight.
Mankind is reaching out into the heavens with instruments prying into where they have not been. This is the outward manifestation of what is happening in the realms of the Spiritual. There is a people who dare to look into the deeper things of Yah and to appropriate the gifts needed to even go beyond into places where the flesh dies, into places where we are kept only by the power of Yah. YahShua was the first astronaut to go where no man has gone before, to travel in the realms of the spiritual, and he opened the frontier for us to follow. We will no longer be an earth bound creature, but through the new birth we are born to higher things, far above the earthly. Our hearts long to be homeward bound, and we are in training for the trip. The Holy Spirit becomes our telescope to show us what lies in the higher realms of Heaven that will soon be ours.
Paul stated in his writings that he was caught up to the third heaven. I have heard it said by some there are seven heavens. I have no knowledge of this, but I do know about three. Jacob saw a ladder into heaven with angels or saints ascending and descending upon it. The bottom rung in this ladder was on earth and the top in Heaven.
The Tabernacle plan given to Moses was also a type and shadow of Yah’s plan for mans ascent into His own realm. We can parallel them with Jacob’s ladder and the different levels of atmosphere or sky.
The atmosphere or sky in which the flesh moves and lives and has its being is a type and shadow of the first heaven. This is also where the earth is found. The earth realm is the realm of hell, death and the grave. And, I am not speaking physical here. This heaven or sky touches the earth as in Jacob’s ladder and life is sustained in it. Spiritually speaking this is the realm of salvation by faith in the blood of the lamb. It is the grace realm where the wheat and tares grow together. You find in this level the outer court of the Temple where the Alter of Sacrifice, the cross of YahShua, is found. The Bible states that we are compassed about by such a cloud of witnesses which consist of the Old Testament saints and those who have left this realm.
The second heaven lies within the Temple itself. You can not see or know what is there without entering the door. YahShua’s resurrection is the door to the Father. "Unless you are borne again or born of the Spirit you can not see the kingdom of Yah." The cloud you find in this place is the cloud of incense that permeates and fills this realm. Incense was burned in the Holy Place night and day representing the prayers of the saints. Our outer atmosphere has no light. It is dark as the inside of the Holy Place would be without the seven branch candle stick that burned night and day illuminating the whole place. This candle stick represents revelation knowledge of the Holy Spirit that is in this second heaven. "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power."
The Third heaven, the one that Paul saw, was beyond the curtain in the Most Holy Place. Here too there was no illumination save for the cloud of the shekina glory of Yah that rested on the Ark of the Covenant. This Ark was the only thing in this place. In this realm there is Yah and Him alone. Here we live and move and have our being in Him. We are swallowed up in His glory and become one with Him. All that remains of the earth realm is burned away here, for our Yah is a consuming fire.
Under the Law the High Priest went in before the Ark once a year in Israel to offer a blood sacrifice for the sin of the nation. Once in the year of humankind our High Priest, YahShua Messiah, appeared before the Ark with His own sinless blood, a sacrifice for sin. Then the High Priest would come out of the Most Holy Place and appear in the door of the Tabernacle with the glory still clinging to him. He would show himself to the people thus letting them know that the sacrifice was accepted and their sins were covered. When YahShua came from the tomb, he was a witness to the people that their sins were forgiven. However, Father Yah is not going to leave us with this one testimony. There is a law, and Yah is lawful. "In the mouth of two or more witnesses a thing is established." Therefore, YahShua was the first born among many brethren. Very soon the second witness will step onto the world scene with the glory of Yah upon them. They will be the manifested Sons of Yah and they will be the final witness of the fulfillment of the plan of Yah for mankind. They will be the final proof of His great love for his creation, and the glory that is ours will display our oneness with Him. "For, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. The earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of Yah."
Through revelation of the Spirit we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And, we who have the firstfruits of the Spirit groan within ourselves until we partake of the redemption of our body. The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of Yah. For the glory cloud, in which we as spirit beings move and live and have our being shall fill the earth as the water covers the sea.
The doors of heaven are open to us and we press toward that mark.
