Day four’s lights in the heavenly dome order by dividing day from night, moving in a yearly circular orbit, yet signaling a linear movement toward a mark (an eternal Sabbath) via His people seeing the door of the tabernacle at set repeated times of YHWH’s sacred feasts (Blog 2). The heavens declare the glory of God; the dome (raqia) shows His handiwork. Day and night, the lights utter speech, revealing knowledge in a circuit to the ends of the earth, and in them, He has set a tabernacle for the sun (Psa. 19:1-4). Israel’s tabernacle portrayed a mini-Eden of God’s heavenly Presence, the center focus of the community to carry God’s glory to the world, summoning humans to worship Him. At Eden’s gate, two cherubim with flaming swords guarded the way of life, the way (derek) back into Eden. Cain and Abel offered sacrifices at Eden’s door. God told Cain about the sacrificial offering that lay at the door, ready to help him overcome evil and give him access to God and His way of life. To enter the door is life; to be outside the door is ruin. Humans must pass through the fire between the flaming swords to access Eden, letting the fire of God’s jealous love (His Spirit) consume what is evil in us, so we, too, become His tabernacles with tongues of fire, His glory.

Doors appear from beginning to end in the Bible. The six days of God creating order in the heavens and on the earth in Genesis 1 point to building a temple¹ with a door to the seventh-day rest of God with humans residing on a victory throne in Genesis 2 (Blog 5 and Blog 86). The ark had a door. The door to Lot’s house was guarded by two angels who struck those outside the door with blindness. Safety inside meant life. Evil perversion, darkness, and death were outside the door. Passover is about the door marked with lamb’s blood and staying protected in the house. The tabernacle’s doors bore designs of cherubim guarding sacred space, and the altar of burnt offerings and the bronze laver were outside the door. A door signaled transition. An open door in the Book of Revelation reveals the glory of God in the New Jerusalem, inviting those who do His commands to enter through the gates into the city, giving them the right to the Tree of Life (Ch. 4, 21-22).

Just as YHWH worked ordering the world from chaos, humans work six days overcoming rebellion to enter the portal to the seventh day and resting with God on His throne. The sacred year’s seventh month represents the earthly rule of King Yeshua, which points beyond itself to the new creation’s order and eternity. Isaiah, meaning “YHWH is salvation,” heavily uses “bara,” create, to describe YHWH’s creation of Israel, a nation of royal priests in His image to carry His Presence to all the ends of the earth until the end of the age. Moses consecrated the priests to enter sacred space at the tabernacle door, and there, YHWH promised to meet with Israel and speak to them (Exo. 29).

In Blog 86, I showed how the building of the tabernacle followed the same pattern as Genesis 1’s six days of creation. With its 434 words (sum of dalet, ד, depicting a door), Genesis 1 indicates there is a door to the three-tiered creation, like the tabernacle’s three tiers with a door, like the ark’s three-tiered structure with a door. Do the six months of light also follow the same pattern? If months one to six (Abib to Elul) are divided, like Genesis 1’s days, into three groups of two months (59 days in each group, the 17^th prime number, the number of victory), they total 177,  7² + 2⁷ and 7² + 8² + 8². Shabbat equals 702, walking with God (7²) in His light (207) for all eternity (8). Also, God divided the feasts into three times a year when Israel came to the temple to meet with God and worship. Is there a door represented between the first six feasts (named holy convocations: First and Seventh Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonements, and Tabernacles) and the seventh, the Eighth Day?

John’s eight signs match the Feasts. After the first Passover sign, there are six signs of Yeshua in the flesh, plus one after His resurrection. YHWH’s seven holy convocation feasts (2^nd sign – 8^th sign) follow a 6 + 1 = 7 pattern like Genesis 1. John draws attention to three Hebrew words: Bethesda (Jhn. 5:2), Gabbatha (Jhn. 19:13), and Golgotha (Jhn. 19:17, the skull, census place). The sum of these three words is 434, 14·31 (2·7 × EL), which tells of Yeshua’s sacrifice at the door of His House of Mercy, the portal to the Sabbath’s sacred space and time, and the seventh holy convocation feast, the Eighth Day. The 434 sum of dalet, the 4^th Hebrew letter, is also the sum of “the judgment,” הַמִּשְפָט (Exo. 28:30), and “to sanctify,” לְקַדַּשׁ, the Sabbath (Neh. 13:22). To enter the Sabbath’s sacred space and time, both judgment (depicted by the bronze altar’s offerings) and sanctification (represented by the bronze laver) occur outside the tabernacle door and the census gate to the city, and result in Psalm 91:14’s “he has known My name” (434 sum), John 17:3’s definition of eternal life.

Regarding the Sabbath month’s timing, Daniel’s prophecy alludes to a door to King Yeshua’s millennial rule, the same time measure of His first coming.

24 “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint the “holy of holies” (NRSV). 25 “Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens’ (NIV). Dan. 9:24-25

Humanity’s transgression against God did not cease after Yeshua’s crucifixion but will end with His return and subsequent millennial and eternal reigns.² Since sin involves “revolt against authority,” this prophecy cannot be fulfilled in any real sense until Christ personally returns to earth. Sin will be controlled during the millennium and cease altogether during the eternal state of the kingdom of God.³ “To bring in everlasting righteousness” signifies that at the end of the seventy-sevens, an era of righteousness will permeate the earth, which will continue for eternity. Only when the kingdom of God is ushered in at Yeshua’s return will such a state of universal righteousness be possible.⁴ The sixty-two weeks, 62 × 7 = 434, is a door to the seventh month millennium, just like the creation of Genesis 1 has 434 words, a door to the Sabbath.

Takeaway: 
The way to the new city’s eternal Sabbath, the seventh month, and having one’s name written in the Book of Life is through the door of God’s creation, Yeshua’s sacrifice. He took upon Himself our judgment that we might be sanctified, knowing His name, to dwell with Him forever.