FUNDING THE SANCTUARY (LEV.27)
ONE SANCTUARY IS THE “WILDERNESS TABERNACLE” WHERE WE’RE AT NOW IN SCRIPTURE, AND THE OTHER ENTITY IS “THE TEMPLE”, WHICH WILL BE BUILT LATER.
YAHUSHA said to Moses, “Give the following instructions to the people of Yisharal. If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate someone to Me by paying the value of that person, here is the scale of values to be used. A man between the ages of twenty and sixty is valued at 570g of silver, as measured by the sanctuary shekel. A woman of that age is valued at 342g of silver. A boy between the ages of five and twenty is valued at 228g of silver; a girl of that age is valued at 114g of silver. A boy between the ages of one month and five years is valued at 57g of silver; a girl of that age is valued at 34g of silver. A man older than sixty is valued at 171g of silver; a woman of that age is valued at 114g of silver. If you desire to make such a vow but cannot afford to pay the required amount, take the person to the priest and he will determine the amount for you to pay based on what you can afford.
If your vow involves giving an animal that is acceptable as an offering to Me, any gift to Me will be considered set-apart. You may not exchange or substitute it for another animal, neither a good animal for a bad one nor a bad animal for a good one. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered set-apart. If your vow involves an unclean animal, one that is not acceptable as an offering to Me, then you must bring the animal to the priest and he will assess its value, and his assessment will be final, whether high or low. If you want to buy back the animal, you must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20%.
If someone dedicates a house to Me, the priest will come to assess its value and his assessment will be final, whether high or low. If the person who dedicated the house wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20%. Then the house will again be his.
If someone dedicates to Me a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it, 570g of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed. If the field is dedicated to Me in the Year of Jubilee, then the entire assessment will apply. But if the field is dedicated after the Year of Jubilee, the priest will assess the land’s value in proportion to the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. Its assessed value is reduced each year. If the person who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20%. Then the field will again be legally his. But if he does not want to buy it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back. When the field is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be set-apart, a field specially set apart for Me. It will become the property of the priests. If someone dedicates to Me a field he has purchased but which is not part of his family property, the priest will assess its value based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. On that day he must give the assessed value of the land as a special donation to Me. In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property. (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel (11g).
You may not dedicate a firstborn animal to Me, for the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats already belong to Me. However, you may buy back the firstborn of an unclean animal by paying the priest’s assessment of its worth, plus 20%. If you do not buy it back, the priest will sell it at its assessed value. However, anything specially set apart for Me, whether a person, an animal, or family property, must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart for it belongs to Me. No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. Such a person must be put to death.
One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to Me and must be set apart to Me. If you want to buy back My tenth of the grain or fruit, you must pay its value, plus 20%. Count off every tenth animal from your herds and flocks and set them apart for Me as set-apart. You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may not substitute one for another. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered set-apart and cannot be bought back.”
THIS WHOLE SECTION OF `FUNDING THE SANCTUARY’ INVOLVED, TITHES, HOMES, ANIMALS, SILVER AND ALL OF IT WAS TO KEEP THE PLACE THAT HOUSES YAHUSHA’S ESTEEM RUNNING SMOOTHLY. NONE OF THIS IS NEEDED TODAY IN THE 21st CENTURY (DESPITE HOW WE’VE BEEN TAUGHT AND RIPPED OFF) BECAUSE OUR BODIES ARE NOW THE LIVING DWELLING OF HIS PRESENCE AND NO SUCH ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE EXISTS, NOR WILL IT EVER, UNTIL THE NEW YERUSHALIM DESCENDS FROM THE SKY, CONSISTING OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING GEMS AND PEARLS AND ELEMENTS IMAGINEABLE . . . AND WE, YAHUSHA’S BRIDE WILL BECOME PART OF THIS AMAZING CITY, ALL LIVELY STONES FITTED TOGETHER TO HOUSE THE ETERNAL ESTEEM OF OUR BRIDEGROOM, WHO WILL RESTORE THIS EARTH TO IT’S ORIGINAL MARRIAGE HOME STATUS AS WAS THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THEN THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB WILL BE UNDERWAY, USHERING IN 1000 YEARS OF REST WITH NO UNCLEAN SPIRITS OR DRAGON TO CONTEND WITH.
These are the Instruction that YAHUSHA gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.
