It’s Supernatural with Sid Roth
SID: I was so surprised when I listened to a music video from a cantor in a Jewish synagogue that was a Christian song. I didn’t think they’d put a Christian song there, but then it gets even better. This song, you’re probably familiar with it. It’s called Prepare Me to be a Sanctuary. Now, if you look up the word sanctuary in the Webster’s Dictionary, do you know one of the first descriptions is the Holy of Holies. In the temple, the Holy of Holies was where God himself dwells. So the song is saying, “Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary or a Holy of Holies, pure and holy, tried and true, and with thanksgiving, I’ll be a living sanctuary. I’ll be a living Holy of Holies where God himself is going to dwell all for you.” Let’s roll that.
SID: (singing)
SID: So that song begs a question for the Jewish people in that conservative synagogue and for everyone that is watching right now, Jew or gentile. How do we become pure and holy? Well the Torah, the Book of Deuteronomy tells us how. In the 18th chapter, Verse 15, 18, and 19, it says, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from the midst of your brethren like me.” This is Moses speaking to my Jewish people. So it’ll be a prophet like Moses. “And to him, you shall listen. I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brethren like you and will put my words …” I want you to catch this now, “Put my words in his mouth.” In other words, inside of his sanctuary, inside of the Holy of Holies. His body is like the sanctuary to house the voice of God.
SID: Now, if it’s going to house the voice of God, that means the Jewish people in that synagogue were singing a song to God to prepare them to have the word of God or God himself inside of them. This one that is going to come will obviously be greater than Moses. Moses couldn’t do this. It had to be someone coming. “This one who shall come shall speak to them all that I command him,” and then there’s quite a consequence if you don’t follow what he says. “Whoever will not harken to my words which he shall speak in my name, I,” this is God speaking, “I myself will require it of him.” That’s pretty serious.
SID: Now, the one that is to come that will be housed in our body which will be a Holy of Holies is the messiah and the perfect shadow of the messiah was the whole animal sacrifice system in the temple. They would take an unblemished lamb and he would die for the sins on Yom Kippur. We call it substitution. In other words, the animal dies for our sins each year. Now, Genesis 22:8, Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac and Abraham said, and he’s speaking to Isaac, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” In other words, God’s going to supernaturally prepare this lamb for this substitution, but this one will be greater than Moses to be our sacrificial substitution for sin to last eternity. God calls us to be holy as He is holy, and He not only calls us to walk in holiness and the only way we’re going to do that is if God himself is inside of us in our Holy of Holies, in our body, and He’s going to equip us to a wonderful gift to have the supernatural ability to walk out what He tells us to do.
