Your First Day In Heaven 9

INTRO: We are looking at the fourth main point of this series of messages, which is what the believer experiences after the altar. We have taken a diversion, to explain a matter so as to understand the white robes of Revelation 6. I have recommended that the believer who enters heaven arrives first at the altar. From there he goes to the laver. But to understand why I believe that, and to understand what happens at the laver I want to explain the basic stages of the tabernacle and the purpose of the laver. This really belongs to a separate series, but to understand the white robes we are taking this up now.
Here are the main points of what we have covered so far. We first looked at the altar at which the believer arrives in heaven. Then we looked at how it is that a person arrives there in the first place. All this is given to us in the text we have been considering. Then we looked at what happens at the altar. That gives us the reason why we arrive there. It would not be appropriate to arrive before God Almighty without having first been to the altar.
We are now considering what happens after the altar. All we have in our text is that they are given white robes. That is our clue to what is happening and that is our subject. I have proposed that the white robes are given, not at the altar, but after the altar, or rather at the laver. I have also proposed that the significance of the laver is water and baptism. Washing is the key thing about the laver.