BILLYE BRIM: God showed
David the pattern that the
permanent temple was
going to be. But David knew
it's got to be magnifical
and full of glory.
(Singing) I know my God
has made the way for me.
I know my God has
made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: On today's Believer's
Voice of Victory, Gloria
Copeland and Billye Brim
share how sin separated man
from God. But unity in the
Body of Christ is what will
bring God's glory back to
mankind through Jesus.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody.
Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory. Billye
is still teaching us about
the glory today. It's--we're
getting excited. You just
start thinking about the
glory of God being manifest
in the earth, and it is very,
very exciting. BILLYE:
That's very, very true. GLORIA:
Mm. BILLYE: And you know, the
glory of God that man was
crowned with--Adam was crowned
with glory, it says, in Psalm 8.
And he fell from the glory. And
when he fell from the glory,
then God was separated from Him.
GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE: Adam--
GLORIA: Sin separated him.
BILLYE: Sin separated him. He
became spiritually dead. "In the
day that you eat of this, you're
going to die." GLORIA: That's
right. BILLYE: So he died
spiritually that very day. And
God then--he can no longer stand
in God's presence. Can't--God
can't go down there in the
evenings, visit him. GLORIA: No.
BILLYE: He would consume him. He
would burn him up. And so for
2,000 years, God is separated
from His man. And God can't
approach man; too dangerous on
man-- GLORIA: Right. BILLYE:
--too dangerous for him. But God
had a plan before the foundation
of the earth. And Satan, he saw
that. And he said, "What are You
going to do now? What are You
going to do now?" He thought he
had separated God from that man
so that that man could never
work with God and God could
never work with that man. But
God has a plan. This Book here
is a plan. GLORIA: Yes, amen.
BILLYE: Sometimes I say, "Oh,
what a planner. Oh, what a
planner." GLORIA: Yes, amen.
BILLYE: And to tell you the real
truth, when I got into this and
I got studying this, I came to
see that the Bible was the story
of the glory, as a story of man.
So here the glory of God is
separated, but God is going to
get that glory back down in the
earth. So it has an entry point.
GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: And that
entry point is in Exodus 3.
GLORIA: Exodus 3. BILLYE: Exodus
3:1-5. Now, Moses, remember, he
had been raised up in the house
of Pharaoh. GLORIA: Yeah.
BILLYE: "Now Moses kept the
flock of Jethro his father in
law, the priest of Midian: and
he led the flock to the backside
of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, to Horeb. And
the angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush." What
did the glory appear as?
Sometimes fire. GLORIA: Fire.
BILLYE: "And he looked, and,
behold, the bush burned with
fire, and the bush was not
consumed. And Moses said, I will
now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not
burnt. And when the Lord saw
that he turned aside to see, God
called unto him--God called unto
him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses."
That's how you pronounce it.
"And he said, Henani." "Here I
am." "And he said, Draw not nigh
hither: put off thy shoes from
off thy feet, for the place
whereon you stand is holy
ground." GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: Now, what is this? The
whole earth, Gloria, had fallen
under the curse. And if God came
down on that earth, He'd burn
the whole place up. So what He's
done here is work His plan. And
He cleaned Him off a little
spot. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE:
And He made that little spot
holy. That's what "holy" means,
separated. And He tells Moses,
"Don't come on here with your
shoes." Now, this is my--what I
think why: Those shoes are made
of an animal skin, and that
means death. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
So death, I think, could not
step in that spot. And so Moses
then comes in, and he steps on
the spot. And that's when He's
telling Moses His plan to get
the children of Israel out of
Egypt. And that plan to get His
children of Israel out of Egypt
is going to further involve God
getting to be closer to His man.
So if you will turn in your
Bibles to Exodus 24--what God
said to Moses was, "You go back
and you tell Pharaoh, Let my
people go. And I want my people
to come three days journey out
into the wilderness and meet
with me on the mountain." So,
you know the story. You know how
Pharaoh said, "No." And you know
the 10 plagues. And you know
that, finally, with the plague
of the death of the firstborn
and the blood on the doorpost,
Israel was saved. And then they
came to the sea and the sea
parted, and they came across.
And so then they're coming out,
and God begins to give the plan.
He's going to reenter this earth
with His presence and the glory
of His presence. Eventually, the
whole earth is going to be
filled with His glory, but He's
doing this by step--by degree.
And that's one thing you find
out about glory, it enters, it
grows by degree. It's
measurable. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
So He says to Moses--He says,
"Meet Me out upon the mountain.
And when you get here, you're
going to have to be watchful
because--you tell the people
you're building a--you're making
a border. Don't have them come
past that. It's going to be
dangerous for them." Was it that
God didn't want them near Him?
No. He wants them near, but
they're not ready to be near
Him. GLORIA: Yeah. They weren't
prepared. BILLYE: So they come
to the mountain, and here is
this one mountain. Now, He's
cleaned off more than a little
spot. He's cleaned off a
mountain, and He's come down on
there with His glory. And so
Verse 15 of Chapter 24, "And
Moses went up into the mount,
and a cloud covered the mount."
Now, here's the cloud, see? "And
the glory of the Lord--" Capital
"L-O-R-D." It's Yahweh, some
say, "Jehovah." "The glory of
the Lord abode upon mount Sinai,
and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he
called unto Moses out of the
midst of the cloud. And the
sight--" In the Old Testament,
when it talks about it, you
could always see it. You could
always tell it was there. "And
the sight of the glory of the
Lord was like devouring fire--"
GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: "--on the
top of the mount in the eyes of
the children of Israel." They
could see it. "And Moses went
into the midst of the cloud, and
got him into the mount: and
Moses was in the mount forty
days and forty nights." GLORIA:
Was he in the glory forty days
and forty nights? BILLYE: He
was. And probably caught up to
heaven, the heavenly realm, as
he went to the top. But here are
the children down there
watching. Now, then the Lord
speaks to Moses. Verse 25, "And
the Lord spoke unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto the children
of Israel--" Now, this is the
first time He's had contact with
mankind in two thousand years.
And He says, "Moses, here's what
I want you to tell them to do."
GLORIA: 25:1. BILLYE: "I want
them to do--" what? "Bring me an
offering." Some people don't
like offerings. God likes them
because He knows they're good
for you. He says, "You speak
unto the children of Israel, and
you tell them to bring me an
offering." GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
"And every man that giveth
it willingly with his heart--"
GLORIA: With his heart. BILLYE:
"--you shall take my offering."
Now, what are you going to do
with this offering? Verse 8,
"Let them make me a sanctuary;
that I may dwell among them." He
wants to get close to His man.
He wants to--He made man to have
fellowship with him. Adam fell
from the glory, and He couldn't
have any fellowship with man.
Now this is the reentry of the
glory. This is the reentry of
the presence of God with His
man. And He says, "Moses, you
make me a sanctuary because I
want to dwell among My people."
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And
He showed Moses a pattern of the
tabernacle and the instruments.
So He told Moses how to make
this, what's called in the
Hebrew, the tent of meeting. The
tent--the Ohel Moed, the tent
where they can go and meet with
God. And as much of His glory as
can be legally manifested
without killing all the tribes
of Israel is going to dwell over
this tabernacle. GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: And He's going
to--He said, "Make me a tent of
meeting." Verse 22, "And there I
will meet with you, and I will
commune with you from above the
mercy seat, from between the two
cherubim which are upon the ark
of the testimony, of all things
which I shall give thee in
commandment unto the children of
Israel." So He has a plan to
reenter His glory without
killing them. "Moses, you're
going to have to do it right.
You're going to have to have
that priesthood separated.
You're going to have to have the
blood of these little lambs."
And every blood of every little
lamb of the Old Testament stood
for the blood that's going to
come, of the Lamb of God. And
those little lambs stood for
that. And so it could--He could
push off man's sin by these--He
made the steps. "Don't you touch
the ark, now. I've got to
have--I'm going to separate me a
group, and they're going to
carry the ark." GLORIA: Mm-hmm.
BILLYE: You know, "Here's how
you handle the ark. Here's how
you handle the presence. It's
like fire--holy fire, and it's
the fire of God. And you don't
want to get burned by it. And
this as much as I can do right
now." So they've got to bring
these willing-heart offerings.
GLORIA: Willing hearts. BILLYE:
And there's a lot that could be
told about that in Exodus 35,
but they did it, every man that
had a willing heart. And then
Moses, he built the tabernacle
in the wilderness, which is the
first reentry of the glory. And
we can read about that in
Chapter 40, Chapter 40 of the
book of Exodus. So he does
it--all those chapters between
Chapter 25 and 40 are telling
Moses how to do it. GLORIA: Mm.
BILLYE: And so he did it. And he
did it right, too. You don't get
to make up the plan. You don't
get to make up the pattern.
GLORIA: No. BILLYE: You just do
it because God says to do it.
And He showed Moses exactly how
to do it. And He gifted the
people how to do it. And Chapter
40 and Verse 33 says, "So Moses
finished the work." GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: "Then a
cloud covered the tent of the
congregation," there's the cloud
again, "and the glory of the
Lord filled the tabernacle. And
Moses was not able to enter into
the tent of the congregation,
because the cloud abode thereon,
and the cloud of the Lord filled
the tabernacle." So it--the
glory filled it, the presence of
the Lord. And Moses, he couldn't
even get in there at the first
because of the glory of the
Lord. It's substance--it's holy
substance is the substance of
God. GEORGE: Praise God. BILLYE:
Now, He's there. He's in the
tent of meeting, but also, He's
going to travel with them. This
tabernacle was a tent. It was
portable. And so Verse 36, He
led them by His glory, "And when
the cloud was taken up from over
the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went onward in all their
journeys: and if the cloud were
not taken up, then they
journeyed not till the day that
it was taken up. For the cloud
of the Lord was upon the
tabernacle by day, and fire was
on it by night--" GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: "--in the sight of
all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys."
They followed the cloud, they
followed the fire, they followed
God. And so they followed Him in
the journeys. And they went,
eventually to "She-loh," or
Shiloh, where Joshua settled
there for 369 years, I believe
it was. It was there. And then
there came to the time when it's
going to take up a permanent
abode. God had told them, from
the first--He told to Abraham,
"There's a place I've got that
I'm going to put my name on."
And that place is Mount
"Mo-reeya." We say, "Moriah," in
Israel. And on that mountain in
that place, He had them build a
permanent house. When He was
speaking to--when He was
speaking to David about it, He
said to David, "You can't build
it--" David discovered the place
of it. He found it. But He said,
"Your Solomon is going to build
it for me." And so David
said--in I Chronicles 22:5, "And
David said, Solomon my son is
young and tender, and the house
that is to be builded for the
Lord must be exceeding
magnifical, of fame and of glory
throughout all countries: I will
now make preparation for it. So
David prepared for it abundantly
before his death." God showed
David the pattern that the
permanent temple is going to be.
But David knew it's got to be,
"magnifical and full of glory."
God's houses are to be
magnifical and full of glory.
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: So
Solomon builds it. Now, Gloria,
the first time this is being
shown, the first time--I know
you can watch it on Roku, I know
you can watch it on BVOV,
bringing it all up. But the
first time it's shown on
television is exactly the time
when this temple was dedicated.
It's Sukkot. It's the Feast of
Tabernacles. I think we're on
that beginning day right now.
And that is the time of year it
was. And it's the Feast of
Tabernacles which stands for
when Jesus will come, when the
Messiah will come, and He will
restore His kingdom on the
earth. So here they move into
the temple on that very day. So
in II Chronicles 5:1--I didn't
put this in here, Gloria. It was
too long to put, so you're going
to have to look it up in your
Bible. You look it up there at
home. II Chronicles-- GLORIA:
Chapter 2? BILLYE: Chapter 5.
GLORIA: 5. BILLYE: And Verse 1.
Remember how it said that Moses
finished the work of the
tabernacle? Here we've got the
line that Solomon finished the
work. The house of God always
has a finish. So here's the
finish for the temple: "Thus all
the work that Solomon made for
the house of the Lord was
finished: and Solomon brought in
all the things that David his
father had dedicated; and the
silver, and the gold, and all
the instruments, put he among
the treasures of the house of
God. Then Solomon assembled the
elders of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, and the
chief of the fathers unto the
children of Israel, unto
Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark
of the Covenant of the Lord out
of the city of David and the
tabernacle. Wherefore all men of
Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which is
in the seventh month." That's
today, October. In Israel, it's
the day of that feast. GLORIA:
Mm. BILLYE: So all the children
of Israel are there. There are
millions of them. Now, here's
Mount Moriah, and all around it
are other mountains. As the
mountains are all around
Jerusalem, so the Lord is all
around His people. GLORIA:
Mm-hmm. BILLYE: And all upon
those mountain sides are--2 1/2
million people, 3 million, and
some more by now. Together, they
cover every mountain. And
they're dressed in
white--probably dressed in
white, so you can imagine what
they look like. GLORIA: Mm.
BILLYE: "So it came to pass,"
Verse 13--no. I think we'll do--
GLORIA: Where are you reading,
Billye? BILLYE: I'm reading from
II Chronicles 5:11, which you'll
have to look up in your Bible
because I didn't type this all
out. "And it came to pass, when
the priests were come out of the
holy place: (for all the priests
that were present were
sanctified, and did not then
wait by course." There are 24
classes of the priests. There's
4,000 of them in the Levitical
singers. And they're not--they
didn't wait for their courses.
Now they're all there. And
there's at least 4,000 of them,
of the Levites. "And the Levites
which were the singers, all of
them of Asaph, and Heman, and
Jeduthun, with their sons and
their brethren, being arrayed in
white linen, having cymbals and
psalteries and harps, stood at
the east end of the alter, and
with them a hundred and twenty
priests sounding with
trumpets.)" So there's 4,000 in
the Levitical prior--choir.
There's 120 of the priests that
have got trumpets. They've also
got other instruments. And Verse
13, "It came even to pass, as
the trumpeters and singers were
as one, to make one sound to be
heard in praising and thanking
the Lord; and when they lifted
up their voices with the
trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of music, and
praised the Lord, saying, For he
is good; for his mercy endures
forever." GLORIA: Yes, He is.
BILLYE: "For he is good; and his
mercy endures forever." They
would have sung it antiphonally.
And it says, "Hallelujah."
That's the meaning of "Praise
the Lord." "Ki tov," "for He is
good." "Ki l'olam chasdo,"
"forever His mercy endures." And
they said that. The
Levitical--the Levitical choir
leader had a white cloth. And he
would say, "For He is good," and
then the people would say, "For
He is good." "Ki tov," "Ki tov."
"Ki l'olam chasdo," "Ki l'olam
chasdo." The trumpeters are
playing. I think it's so fierce.
They're singing, and suddenly
they sound like one. They come
into unity. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
Unity is important for the
glory. GLORIA: Yes, yes. BILLYE:
And they get to a place--even
under that Old Covenant, they
got to a place of unity. And
when they did, then the end of
Verse 13, "The house was filled
with a cloud, the house of the
Lord; so that the priests could
not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud." Why? "For the
glory of the Lord had filled the
house of God." GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: So that presence of
God, that presence of God that
made its reentry back there in
the--in the bush and then in the
tabernacle, now it's on this
house, this place in Jerusalem
where He has put His name. And
the glory of the Lord is seen
like a pillar of fire over that
temple night and day. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: And there it
was as long as Israel lived
according to the way God told
them to live. Now, you think
about it, Gloria. We're skipping
ahead. We're going to talk about
this more in detail. But now the
Bible says whose house we are.
The Bible says, "Know you not
you are the temple of God?"
GLORIA: Yes. That's what it
says. BILLYE: And the Bible
says, in Ephesians, that we are
going to be a glorious house, a
house filled with the glory of
God, this church of the living
God, which the Holy Ghost is
building. Moses finished his
work. GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: Solomon finished his
work. And the New Testament says
that the Holy Ghost is building
this house. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
He's going to finish it. And
before we leave here--I don't
know how long, Gloria, but
before we leave here, we're
going to leave a glorious Church
filled with the glory of God--
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE:
--manifesting Him. Earth is
crying out for the manifestation
of the Sons of God. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: And they're
going to see it, Gloria. GLORIA:
Yes, yes. BILLYE: I don't know
how long, but the glory is being
increased in us. And we're going
to talk about how that happens.
And we're going to be, just like
the Bible says, just like
Ephesians says, a glorious
Church, without a blemish,
wholly separated unto God.
GLORIA: We see it. We expect it
to manifest. We see it by faith
in Jesus' name. BILLYE:
Hallelujah. GLORIA: Glory to
God. Hallelujah. A glorious
house. You want to be part of
that house, too. Get born again,
make Jesus Lord of your
life, and you become glorious.
Hallelujah. BILLYE: Hallelujah.
When you start out-- GLORIA:
That's right. BILLYE: --it's
Christ in you, the hope
of glory. GLORIA: Billye
and I'll be right back.
