Heb. 8:5 ”who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “SEE,” He says, “THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.”
Col.3:1-3 “Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”
Reality exists in Heaven, and as Christians we are citizens of Heaven. Everything on earth is cursed by the fall, therefore we can’t look at the things of this world and determine what is real, or normal from God’s perspective. There is a true PATTERN of normal in the Kingdom of Heaven for everything, and therefore it is imperative for us to access Heaven, as Paul states in Col. 3, to discern God’s will (PATTERN) for earth in each situation. That’s how faith operates. Jesus, as the Son of Man, only did those things He saw The Father doing, and He only said those things that He heard The Father saying. His ability as Man to see and hear in the realm of The Kingdom, was cultivated in intimacy. The Hebrew passage tells us that there is a Heavenly Pattern to be reproduced on Earth (that is not just about the Tabernacle; it is about everything and situation in life), and the Colossians passage tells us that we must make it our priority to seek those realities in Heaven, and to set our minds, and affections on God’s patterns; not the patterns (Those things we accept as normal realities. The “what must be”‘s of the fallen Earth. This happens as we go deeper in intimacy with Jesus. In Rev. 4, we are invited to come “up there” and discover the “what must take place” realities from God’s perspective. Whatever is true from Heavens point of view is what we bring down by faith into our situation. This is the “Calling those things which are not, as though they were; until they are, because THEY ARE” kind of faith that Romans 4 speaks of.