So then, Patrick, if the heavens are your mind and the earth-land-soil is your body, then the war is over you and your soul: and we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Daniel 12:8-10 KJV - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Who are the "many" that shall be purified? The Master confirms two covenants: the first one is Sinai, "torah-teachings of sin", and is of below, and teaches us how to "use the law lawfully" against our own selves and sin in our "members", and that one is the covenant for the many or "for many", (Dan 9:27, Mat 26:28 ASV, Mrk 14:24 ASV, Luk 22:17 ASV, Rom 7:28 ASV). The second is the new covenant which Meshiah also confirmed at the "Last Supper", and is the second cup mentioned after the Seder, (Luk 22:20), and that one is "for you", (speaking to the disciples and all who would follow by believing their testimony of the Meshiah). And that one is Horeb, and of above, the torah-teachings of Elohim, and of the mind, (Rom 7:25).
There are two body-temple analogies within the N/T writings and especially the writings of Paul: the Ezekiel Temple is the example given in the scripture for the whole "body of Meshiah", as each of us are likened unto smaller individual precious stones being placed in that whole body-temple, which is the overall body-temple of Meshiah, (the great congregation-body). However the first Temple, which was built by Solomon, is the example of the individual body-temple. There are five lamps on the right and five lamps on the left: but they are on the inside of the secondary sanctuary, (meaning they are spiritual of course). But on the outside we see ten lavers "for washing sacrifices" on the outside, (the flesh, the outward, the physical), and there are likewise five lavers on the right and five lavers on the left. This is what Paul is speaking of when he says to offer your bodies as living sacrifices: for it pertains to cutting off sin from our own "members" of our own households, the house-body-temple of Elohim. The same is meant by washing our bodies "in the water of the word", that is, applying the Testimony of Meshiah and his apostles to our own lives, and likewise "mortifying the deeds of the body", (Rom 8:13 KJV), and "mortifying our members which are upon the earth", (Col 3:5 KJV). Thus, if indeed we "put them to sleep", and yet still we wash those "members" put to death "by the washing of water in the Word", (Eph 5:26), then we do indeed "immerse for the dead", (1Cor 15:29). :chuckle:
So put them to sleep, mortify them as both the Master and Paul his servant teach: if your right eye offends you pluck it out, if your right hand offends you cut it off, if your foot is always running swiftly into mischief cut it off: mortify, put them to death, put them to rest, put them to sleep. And when Meshiah comes he will quicken your mortal body and raise up that which was put to sleep, so that they too may serve the Most High along with you, as you follow the Master, in a new heavens and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells: and no doubt, when the Son of Man comes, you will not precede those "unruly members" of your own household which you have been forced to put to sleep.
So "the many", which are in and of the flesh, they get "Sinai", Torah of sin: therefore sacrifice them, (as living sacrifices), and thus you have ten lavers representing this concept in the first Temple, which lavers are along the outer wall of the sanctuary, (for they are of the flesh and of below). Five on the right and five on the left, lavers for the washing of the water in the Word:
And there are ten lamps which Solomon also made and had them placed on the inside of the Temple, (which are thus spiritual, being inside the body-temple), five lamps on the right, and five lamps on the left, (see 2Chr 4:6,7 for both the lavers and the lamps). Moreover the ten virgins likely represent the ten toes of the feet by the context of the parable: for they
run out in the night to meet the groom, that is, the five wise do, but the five foolish
run out to go
"buy and trade" at the market because they ran out of oil, (Spirit).
Psalm 119:105 KJV
105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.