The Bible mentions both a mercy seat and a seat of jealousy in the LORD's temple. The mercy seat was above the ark of the covenant which had the unbroken Law in it, and the seat of jealousy was shown to Ezekiel. The Promise in Revelation 3, for those who overcome, is to sit on the throne of Jesus, with Him, just as He sat down on the Father's throne. Also knowing that Jesus is our temple, and surely our pillar that never leaves, we can also sit down with Him on the mercy seat and the seat of jealousy, just as they are also our thrones which are given to us, as He has made us priests and kings (and queens). There is one difference that we can look at, in regards to sitting on a throne, concerning having first believed in Christ and then having entered in. We are made priests and kings (and queens) as soon as we become saved, and receive the Holy Spirit, and are born again, having perfect insides, and thus we can sit enthroned, through those Promises. Then after having overcome, through entering in, we can again be enthroned, just as entering in gives us to have our soul established on earth as it is in heaven. Being able to sit on the mercy seat gives us a ‘oneship’ with God where we can continually receive His Promises, just as Ephesians also says that Christ has presented us without fault and without blame. The seat of jealousy is our position that is also in oneship with God, where we can rightly divide the word of truth, also rightly dividing between good and evil. Though it may sound as if we are not supposed to sit on the seat of jealousy by reading how it is mentioned in context in Ezekiel, as it was the only place that was left for God, the seat of jealousy is actually where we can sit overcoming every separation there is as in rightly dividing between good and evil. The seat of jealousy in this way is likened unto being enthroned after entering in, and entering in can happen contextually in everything we do, until it fully happens when someone's soul is fully established on earth as it is in heaven. I have described the soul being established on earth as it is in heaven before, as to something that I know I have done, apart from what anyone else might think or believe. And I believe this to be very true, just as Acts shows that Paul was told to baptize himself. Baptism is something that is ceremonial, and a blessing in God, even though we don't follow the Law of Moses anymore, though I do not believe that a person has to be physically baptized in physical water to be saved, just as Jesus saved one of the other guys who was crucified with Him. Paul describes baptism in Romans, as it means that we have died to sin, and are alive to God, through the cross of Christ. That is the spiritual baptism that is ceremonially acted out in physical water baptisms. On one note, we can anoint ourselves with oil, just as oil is something that we can still use, and isn't limited to the Old Testament. Oil in this, as it is also a symbol for the Holy Spirit, is like an extra thing that we can have that isn't legalistic or mandated, but is beneficial. There is a baptism of the Holy Spirit, as I have said before, just as Hebrews speaks about baptism in the plural, though Ephesians says there is only one baptism. What Ephesians says, saying there is only one baptism, is not in the same context of what is written in Hebrews about there being more than one baptism. This is just like how God is one, but He is also three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. One example of the validity of what is sometimes called 'the baptism of the Holy Spirit' is found in Acts, when Paul questioned those in Ephesus, as they said that they had only heard of the baptism of John. It is that baptism of John (John the Baptist) that a person can do themselves, as the baptism of John is one of repentance, remembering also that repentance means 'preparing the way,' and isn't just turning 180 degrees from sin. Just as we can still be 'repenting' in the present tense, though we are still in sin, just as this is what happens when we also first become saved. And I have spoken saying that the sinner's prayer is not found in the Bible, and I said that in the context of how children become saved. My daughter was saved just about 2 weeks ago, and I didn't have her confess that she was a sinner, or that God had saved her from sin, as she is only five years old. But she did confess some other great things to the glory of God! She asked Jesus to live inside of her, and she thanked Him that she was going to live forever, and she said that she believed in Him, and that she loved Him, and she thanked Him that He loves her, and she also thanked Him that He 'took away all of the wrong things.' This began after we were leaving church, and the topic of death came up, after I told her that my dog which had been staying at my grandmother's house, had died, whom she knew. The baptism that is after the baptism of repentance, is the baptism of His death, where someone has died to sin. The baptism of repentance, and of John, which is also the water baptism, in which someone could even do themselves, is all about beginning to turn *to* God, and this is what Peter explains regarding baptism. The baptism of the death of Christ is as the altar of stone mentioned in the OT, which could not be made with human tools; and the altar of earth is the one which could be made with human tools, which is the baptism of repentance, John's baptism. It is the baptism of the death of Christ that Paul is actually speaking concerning, as he wrote in the Philippian letter about 'how much we have attained,' just as the fullness of the baptism of Christ's death is where the soul is fully established on earth, and someone enters in. This baptism of the death of Christ is something that Paul had not even fully entered into yet, when he wrote Philippians, but had later, when he wrote 2 Timothy, saying in 2 Timothy that he had finished his race. Here is the difference between having the soul fully established on earth through entering in, and not yet having that, though having ‘accepted Jesus into one’s heart’ already: it all has to do with what Paul is talking about in Philippians when he speaks about letting go and pressing forward, just as this is what the book of Hebrews is about, especially chapters 1-6. And the point between the two baptisms is found in whether a person wants to be a sinner anymore, and whether they have spiritually cultivated in God, unto not only being saved, but receiving His Promises. Paul Himself was told by Jesus that he would suffer for His sake, and that is the Promise that Paul had in 'leaving Egypt' as I have spoken of before. But not everyone has the same earthly gift, as Paul makes this point in 1 Corinthians 7 (the earthy gift being what a person has in their inheritance from God, after being saved, but before living in the new heavens and new earth). The problem of 'letting go and letting God,' and how this isn't the doctrine of God, nor faith, is found in how when Paul said to let go in Philippians, he was talking about wanting to still be a sinner, not the aspects of life, though sometimes these are the same. The way that the church really began to head in a direction away from God, just as the Laodicean letter shows, is that they didn't go beyond being saved at first, unto also receiving God's Promises regarding their earthly gift, and even the fullness of what they shall have in heaven. And this is what Hebrews 5-6 is about, just as it speaks about no longer laying the FOUNDATION for repentance, but going onto perfection. And I have more than showed how that perfection doesn't just mean that someone 'has' holiness because they don't do whatever sins most people condemn. And so the mercy seat is as the baptism of repentance, and the seat of jealousy is as the baptism of the death of Christ. And again, it is possible to contextually have some of the benefits and promises of the baptism of His death, before fully entering into it.

Something good to know, is that the word jealousy can even be interchanged with the word 'zealous,' and in this way, the seat of jealousy, and the baptism of His death are even more so illuminated.

It is not true that once a person has had their soul established on earth as it is in heaven, that a person won't have anymore manifestations of sin in their flesh. This is true, even as John said in 1 John that those who are born of God no longer sin, though this is speaking about their insides, and is obviously not saying that a person won't have anymore sinful manifestations in their flesh. Our hope is to have our flesh be perfect, and this hope can be involved in our lives, through our faith, as we can receive perfection into our insides.

The biggest factor that is involved in having the soul established on earth as it is in heaven, is that a person knows that they can not fall away, and this is the Promise regarding the seat of jealousy and the baptism of His death. After being born again, but before entering in, there is a time where a person can still fall away, just as the Bible clearly shows, and this happens as a person's new spirit and new heart are limited unto being as the talent or mina, while their soul goes into perdition; leaving them to be as the unprofitable servant. But then again, it is also possible to still have portions of the fullness of no longer being able to fall away before having the soul fully established on earth as it is in heaven through entering in, just as Paul spoke about 'what we have attained' already.