Ezekiel

This post is I think is going to be even less structured than normal & that is due to having a less clear impression of what I am going to write. Plus the subject material is not one that I have a sense of a handle on. But I have been in Ezekiel this week due to going on a conference on the book this week. I am up to Ch 37 as of this morning.

One reflection to start on is that it is interesting that Chapter 36 is titled with ‘The Mountains of Israel to be Blessed’ & the title for Chapter 37 ‘Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones’.

It makes me think of Handel’s Messiah and the famous lines ‘Every valley shall be exalted’ & ‘Every Mountain and hill made low’ taken from the prophesy of Isaiah where he is speaking directly into the desert of Israel to come and the good news that is to be heralded due to the great shepherd of the lambs having come, the shepherd who would guide us through being the perfect lamb too: The great prophetic comfort unto his people, the comfort of Gods spoken word of kindness unto Jerusalem.

Verily, verily, Comfort, Comfort My people, says your GOD. A repetition with a great cry of emphasis that this is the very heart of God, that this is a word from God that is irrevocable, ‘O’ Comfort My people.

Behold, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

And in this sense I am going to ascribe the word world as incorporating, Babylon & Egypt. Not that they are redeemable places in respect to their status spiritually, NO. But that GOD comes to save us from the worlds spiritual deception and the father of all its lies, the prince of darkness. And in that we have a perfect symmetry between a spiritual interpretation of scripture & being grafted into the promises of God in Yeshua the King of the Jews.

And we also have a perfect symmetry in being able to discern that evil one, he hates the apple of Gods eye, hence at the uniting of nations they walk out the big apple.

‘Behold the Lamb of God’.

The prophet John cried this on two consecutive days and this repetition was the foundation of the baton of discipleship, this prophetic cry of repetition is the ministry of Jesus Christ: For this my son was dead and is alive again – the lamb slain before the foundation of the world.

Before the fall of mankind, before the corruption of unrighteousness had entered into man, and perhaps even before the arch angel Lucifer had rebelled against the reign of love.

Before, Before, Before – O before the fall, before confusion, before guilt, before any sense of failure, fault or fragility.

Before, Before, Before, and if you have a heart to receive it, it carries within it a cleansing flowing stream, river and ocean of Gods redeeming love. Before, before, before, even in the womb I knew you. Plans for welfare and not for evil, to give a future and a hope.

Before, before, before, a mighty river cleansing, stones formed over millennia carried out the river beds bottom and placed within the promised land as a memorial that the waters were stopped from Adam.

The Lamb of God, The Lamb of God: Yesterday, today and forever he does not change.

A great high priest who has passed into the heavenlies. Yes, the Lamb of God, the spotless and perfect sacrifice for the peoples sin.

The baton of discipleship, it does not change, it does not become by law that miracles happen, or law the gifting’s of the Holy Spirit, but by faith in the blood of the Lamb, from Abel right through to every jewel compiled within the pearl gates: All founded upon the LAMB of GOD.

Jesus when he was baptized in the lowest places before sea level, just above the Dead Sea, the heavens opened and the Father spoke from Heaven. And at the source of the river Jordan, the highest point within the land mount Hermon: the mount of transfiguration (I believe) where again the Father spoke the message of discipleship unto his future Church: Hear Him, the Lamb of God.

This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him.

Love never having been dethroned within the Godhead trinity: O blessed be the name of the Lord – the nature of are God, incorruptible, unchangeable.

After three days: James martyred first for declaring that access is open again to the tree of life, Peter the revelation from the Father of all the blessings of God: ‘You are Messiah, the Son of the living God’ – the rock upon which the New Testament Church is built & which does not take away from all that Messiah is: King of the Jews.

And John, given the last cannon of scripture and the last of the 66 books of the Bible which concern that which the Church needs to know to be a prepared and waiting bride for his soon return.

Every valley and every mountain: But the Word of our God stands forever.

But such were some of you – But God who is rich in mercy.

All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. But the God of Glory appeared unto Abraham and called him out and showed him the City that has foundations whose builder and maker is GOD: God the Father in heaven, his Will will provide the sacrifice, my son.

The Church of Jesus Christ; the cleansed, the redeemed, the reconciled.

The lowest and the Highest places – when we consider temptation and perhaps pride is a high place to fall from, and the lowest well…5 husbands and still not satisfied.

But from the Jordan to the city set within 7 hills, is an ascent.

But the Fathers voice is not spoken from an open heaven in Jerusalem! Well Simeon heard it & Anna too. Yet, he could have in an audible demonstration of his Son being a mountain of his love that must not be touched dare you die…!

The veil was torn in two from top to bottom.

But Jesus is the revelation of the Fathers love and so the Father left his spoken Word to his Son: 7 statements made at Calvary: Father forgive them for they do not have the knowledge that this act of evil is the only manner in which they can know your eternal love and life: I WILL rise again after three days.

And the last words spoken by Jesus before his resurrection: Father into your hands I commit my Spirit.

Forgiveness of sin, fully incorporated the death of Jesus at the Cross and that is why replacement theology is the full subtlety of the prince of darkness and why it sows discord within that which ought to be conserving truth and the love of life: Zionism is a love of life. And why replacement theology leads to a persecution of all Jesus died to redeem: why are you persecuting thou me – a great light from heaven shone, the highest of highest places, a light that came from creations source and beyond the furthest star we dimly see. And Saul fell lowly to the ground.

Before Gentiles, Kings and the sons of Israel. An eschatological order for a man called as a Jew first, to be raised in school and able to teach the riches of Christ.

The whole of Pauls ministry is hinged & centered on Jerusalem on his final return to Jerusalem. Yes he established the gentile Church and yes he was taken in chains to Rome. But the whole heart beat of his journey was his final journey to Jerusalem.

And the feet of Iron and clay wrought destruction to Jerusalem.

And in that we have a chosen vessel apostolic word concerning end times. The returning of the Jews into the land promised, after the gentiles have been given a full opportunity to be grafted in, and then the gathering against Jerusalem before Messiah descends again to fulfill that which is still to be fulfilled concerning prophesy. Paul knew he was chosen not because he was an alien from outer Mongolia, but because he was a Pharisee and Jew… Children of Israel. The ministry of the new does not throw away the old treasure, that is not the wisdom that is from God.

The Word of God is eternal: Let there be light.

The Word of God does not change: Irrevocable

The seed line of Gods promises cannot be changed.

Forgiveness of sins: The prophetic ministry…does not this ministry clearly come forth from Ezekiel as he declares in repetition that if the wicked repents of his wickedness and starts to live righteously he shall be accepted by God.

Father into thy hands I commit my Spirit!

Said by the Son as the final words before his resurrection and subsequent ascension!! Yes the definitive ascension – Yes Paul had a vision, but it is still be faith that we live, and we do not need or should be seeking visitations of Jesus Christ, outside his Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

I commit my Spirit! Who is poured out on the day of Pentecost? Who gives the early Church boldness to stand in an hostile environment.

Yes the promise of the Father, is to enter into a life of growth and grace and power and authority through good works and a sound mind to the glory of God the Father.

What was the lie from the beginning? It was a lie that God had withheld a good thing from his creation, humanity. Something desirably to make mankind as wise as God.

And unto whom does the prophet Ezekiel say is wiser than Daniel! And is not the King of Tyre in some respects a mirror of the prince of darkness. Yes darkness, And the light of all life comes from the Word of God: Economy, commerce, business, trading and productivity: All raw materials are provided by God, all mental and physical motion are enabling gifted by GOD.

Yes the promise of the Father, is to enter into a life of growth and grace and power and authority through good works and a sound mind to the glory of God the Father.

THE WORD OF GOD has been shared with the Church, sons and daughters. We preach Christ, we preach the faith of Abraham, Moses, Isaiah and John the Baptist too.

Baptism is an ordinance of God, it is the necessary connector between the old and the new.

THE WORD OF GOD shared the comfort and empowering of the Holy Spirit on that great day when the 120 where gathered together on common ground: We need the promises of God to be fulfilled to have power to stand – we need a High Priest ascended pouring his grace on are lives day by day – Hymn Jesus is King.

The Father shared the victory of his ascended Son with those who will repent and believe the promise true.

The Word of God has been shared with us and that is why the Father never spoke from an open heaven in Jerusalem and why his voice was not heard audibly on the day of Pentecost. And while we acknowledge that God is well able to transport a man supernaturally (Philip), we affirm that visions and manifestations and their emphasis and pursuit or rather the validation of a mans ministry as being from God through an encounter with an angel who imparts wisdom beyond the 66 books is to be given a wide berth.

The Word of God has been shared with us and is that not a vertical connector with his kingdom to fully come: Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread (not Babylon, not Egypt, not the ability to become rich and think that is through are own craft and resources) AND forgive us our trespasses (all we have done contrary to your promises of provision as being a faithful creator – and that is why God has a promised land – its his sovereignty to Judge all the nations through – all mankind are trespasses against HIS LAND, all land is his, even that under the Peking Palaces that attempts to silence worship of the Living God). Communism owns nothing at all accept all things belong to GOD. Communism is corruption as its very foundations are a lie.

And lead us not into temptation, as without your leading good shepherd I stray into sin. But deliver us from evil, AMEN.

Jesus taught his disciples to pray and John taught his, and I think 1 John Ch 1 shows that John hadn’t forgotten what the WORD of God taught, day after day. John the loved discipled, did not think that new birth had elevated him to perfection. He knew that he had a body, a kin to the temple, that had not yet be made new: But the promises still hold true, when we are lead of the Spirit we do not sin.

Obedience to God is the liberty the fallen captive sons and daughters of men desperately need to see and hear.

In captivity, under the Judgement of God due to disobedience. The deception reached into the very heart of the worship of GOD, inside the temple!! Idolatry is a great lie against the truth of who is and where Life derives and is sustained from: If any man thirsts…the abundance could not fill the void without the love of God being shared: the river he crossed are streams of living water for you and me: And I guess Ezekiel is a prophet of that promise too.

In captivity, but God was there watching, waiting for a response, for a turning again unto that which had been lost: Simeon and Anna they hadn’t lost the promises of God, but they had waited upon God and their strength had been renewed and mounted up as wings of an eagle: Seeing into the future concerning the life they held in their arms.

And how does his ministry start, repent and believe in the gospel!! The Good news, the news from God the Father from the very beginning, that he has shared his love, the Word of creation, the eternal Son with his image to make them wise: Choose life, Choose goodness, Choose day not night, Choose humility not pride, Choose eternity not temptations power (deception) – John Ch 3 v16. Choose to bless the children of Israel, Choose the promises made unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Choose the pearl gates of entrance into the city that has foundations: The twelve tribes of Israel.

Note:

Well not much Chapter and verse and lets be frank, I haven’t got that ability when it comes to this book. But I have gained a lot reading the chapters I have, the Spirit is very sweet over this passages and behind them, its the spirit speaking through the text in a panoramic scene that I think as aspects of a uniqueness to it. And perhaps thats due to the book starting with the prophets vision and the glory of God: YES, the book ends with the returning into that which God had always intended for man: Sons and daughters. Hence it carries us through in the love of God if we have ears to hear his voice. And that returning cant have contradiction, into the joining again of both under the good Shepherd. Or else the Cross changes the character of God rather than making visible the depths of redeeming love – GOD FORBID.

Well I chose to stay in a hotel right in the heart of the main party of the year in the city of Schiedam. Not knowing about that. But it was a blessed location to be.

Passover from death into the light

Luke Ch 21 v24:

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

And he told them a parable: ‘Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.

So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

From the times of the Gentiles trampling Jerusalem underfoot – Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies you footstool – to the fig tree blossoming the rebirth of the nation of Israel.

Luke Ch 22 v37: For what is written about me has its fulfillment.

Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because you redemption is drawing near.

Redemption and the fulfillment of Messianic promises: Kings will be shattered on the day of his wrath, he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.

The Lord Jesus is about to have Passover with his disciples and then the hour & power of darkness – Jerusalem is soon afterwards in relative terms trampled by Gentiles until the nation of Israel reborn.

V37 And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at height he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.

I find this interesting in respect to Gods character: the message was not hidden but openly taught in the temple. God sent his Son into the very heart of the temple to teach the people. I view the Mount of Olives in some respects as a type of the oil that kept light shining in the temple during the night. It speaks of the consistency of his life day or night, that God can be relied upon, his word, and especially in respect to the hour of and power of darkness – The light of his life has overcome – and he will return to the mount of Olives – and his enemies will be shattered: the power of darkness and the kings who serve under it.

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people

For they feared the people, this is applicable to all forms of governance where the people are having the light of God withheld. This is why conservatism is considered a threat to powers of darkness, as it is the light that exposes corruption and it is the light that brings freedom.

They feared the people as they knew that his message contrasted with their motive and desire to maintain position. His authenticity was a threat to them, they needed conviction of sin, the waters from Adam needed addressing.

The global distortion of truth is due to a spirit of deception, as the people see through the lies when the true teaching is taught: Day & night his nature does not change – ying and yang NO, God is not light and darkness.

The Majesty of God!! Then the day of unleavened bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Everything was prepared for this occasion for the Lord and his disciples. The future, end times are not outside the preparations of GOD, he has gone before in all things.

Ch 22 v7-13 a number of parallels with Genesis Ch 24.

So Jesus sent Peter and John.

I believe this selecting of preparation for the prepared Passover is prophetic for all believers: Peter as his desertion and public denial of knowing his Lord during the crunch moment of the cost of discipleship and suffering at the hands of men – Propehtic of the rock being Jesus the provided Passover Lamb.

And John due to the revelation of the lamb in eternity!! That the Lamb of God was in control throughout the whole chapters of the power of darkness and end times events.

Amen

Jesus prays great drops of sweat merged with blood at the mount of olives.

And after his resurrection he leads them to Bethany, and blesses them.

And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God.

In the temple blessing God. They were about to receive the promise of the Father, and already their night had been turned into day. They had been forgiven of their sins and they knew it, this is a message to be proclaimed in his name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.

The great love of God, HIS Suffering, the fulfillment of scripture, is a message that must not be withheld from the people: As God is going to shakes all things that are not established and founded upon this sure foundation. And God will give boldness to endure the shaking when we are willing to share with the people the great heart and passion of the Christ.

N.B. I prayed that the meetings would be blessed.

I am probably unable to make 3pm as I have appointments with mum.

Eternal High Priest

Luke Ch 20 v41-44

But he said to them,’How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool’.

David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?

This question of Jesus unto the Sadducees is very interesting as the author of Lukes gospel has been very specific in highlighting that the birth of Jesus is precisely that he is born of Davids seed.

Luke Ch 1 v26: In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.

And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!’.

But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.

And the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end’.

What is fascinating here is that the powerful and mighty arc angel Gabriel affirmed by understanding of Gods prophetic promises that the Son to be born would be given the throne of his father David.

Now we know that the angel knew that many generations had passed between David and Jesus, hence it was not literal in respect to the very direct seed line. Yet spiritually the Angel is declaring that Jesus is the one King David came to represent as an anointed King to rule and reign. King David knew that his reign ought to be over the land promised, and hence the first act he did when anointed King over Israel was conquer the stronghold of Jerusalem, as the Jebusites had been named by God when promising Abraham the land – by covenant and by knowledge! How shall I know! The tenth and last tribe listed in Genesis Ch 15 and representing the heart, the heart of worship, ‘God will provide himself a lamb for sacrifice my son’, the very ground David procured at cost to himself: And then the angel of the Lord withheld his sword as the way was being opened again to access the tree of life, the word of God having died to produce good fruit in the hearts of those who receive the gift of the word not returning void!

Now immediately prior to this the angel Gabriel has demonstrated to Zechariah, the authoritative nature of Gods Word. When God sends a Word it will come to pass. And in this light the angel was affirming that Gods Word was not returning void in respect to Gods covenant promises to King David. The tone is different but the consistency is the same, as one was a rebuke to a priest who had numerous scriptural examples in the faith and the other was fellowship with one chosen to give birth to this authoritative Word through whom all messianic scripture is fulfilled through.

And the other was fellowship, yes the angel knew that this was a new precedent and that Mary was being informed of a wonderful truth that had never before come to pass. But the angel also knew, that she had been chosen because her heart was obedient unto the word of the Lord, that she had a virgin attitude of purity unto the Lord ‘I will not corrupt my life with anything outside of his Word and his promises’, she was also from the seedline of David and it was Davids response to the Word of God that defined him.

Thus the Angel of the Lord speaks to the feminine ‘Greetings’! This is a word of fellowship, this is Peter sharing the light of that word, in Cornelius’s home, that has not returned void but dealt with the darkness and void that Abraham knew God had promised could not prevent the dawning of the day of fulfilled promises: I am making all things new, the bright and MORNING star, the sure mercies. That Abraham knew as it was Gods own light that moved between the sacrifice. Gods own light that moved upon the face of deep darkness, and did not return void, but multiplied.

Coming out with great possessions and as for himself going to his fathers in peace, being buried at a good old age. Having fought the good fight of faith.

Death, peace in death, fellowship with those who have gone before him, Seth, Enoch and Noah. The great cloud of witnesses.

Genesis Ch 22 v8: ‘God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son’. 1 Samuel Ch 16 v1: Fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.

Luke Ch 20 v41-44

But he said to them,’How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool’.

David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?

The disciple Luke must have pondered this as his mind was engaged with the Spirit of God as his gospel was structured. Luke’s gospel is the historical record, Luke was intentional in his gospel to have chronology of order but the essence to Luke was not mere factual it was the deep spiritual vein of all scripture: The Word of GOD will be fulfilled – all scripture.

And so we see that Lukes introduction and focus on Jesus being the son of David and then that Son affirming that he is in fact Davids Lord and not his son, has specific truth within it that we are to contemplate and grasp.

Jesus chose to make this statement at a critical juncture in his journey and relationship with the Pharisees and Sadducees as they probed and tested him regarding his authority as a man. And the probing and testing could not but press into the spiritual reality of who, and why Jesus had come.

Genesis Ch 22 v8: ‘God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son’. 1 Samuel Ch 16 v1: Fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.

Where in scripture is King Davids uniqueness established? Saul was also anointed to be king over Gods people Israel as David also was. But David was prepared by the Lord, akin, to John the Baptist: It was a prophetic calling within Gods message to mankind: The testimony of Jesus Christ.

The 8th son of Jesse, not the 7th as 7 sons had passed before Samuel. The 8th son, the one who comes after the 7th, prophetic of the new covenant of the dawn of a new day: A man after Gods own heart, the first day of new beginnings, the first day of the new week, after God has finished his work: My Father and your Father, My God and your God.

A man after Gods own heart, after the sabbath day of rest, after the finished work, after the word returns not void, the commandment to love life & choose its promises over temptation to take the reigns yourself. All that was in the garden was Gods planting, the temptation is not on who created or provided, but the integrity of the Word spoken by the King.

A man after Gods own heart, it must come after Gods own heart: the testimony of Jesus Christ. It must come after as the void can only be filled with a light that brings liberty, and light that brings liberty must be a truth that trusted in God while being the provided sacrifice for sin. Light sets prisoners free as the punishment has been adjudicated during the pitch darkness of Calvary: The word not returning void, multiplied, the first word: ‘Father forgive them’ & the last ‘Father into your hands I commit my Spirit’.

7 statements of Jesus at the Cross, across the four gospels, and this one being from Matthew and Mark: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34), the inspiration of scripture choosing to combine these two gospels into this fourth statement, to give us the collective whole.

Light by its nature brings revelation, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Light by its nature is received and returns to its source within the eye of the beholder. Gods Word is a liberator, forgiveness of sins has always been the shared fellowship in which the Holy Spirit is poured out, comes upon people: new birth is the resurrection life of Jesus being multiplied, as the darkness has been overcome.

A man after Gods own heart, it must come after Gods own heart: the testimony of Jesus Christ. David was taken 2 Samuel Ch 7 v8 from following the sheep, to be prince over the Lords people Israel.

The uniqueness of Davids promises are in 2 Samuel Ch 7, where the Lord makes him an everlasting covenant. And it echoes that promised to Abraham: when your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, ‘I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom’. ‘He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever’.

Now I don’t know the original text, but the offspring is not referring to one, Solomon. The raising up of offspring is a generational promise, one into which Jesus Christ was born his mother being from the tribe of David and his earthly covering as a father too.

And this raising up and from within his body, speaks to us concerning the CHURCH: the fellowship of the brethren, from within Him.

Now it does also have a clear emphasis on Solomon as he is the Son that God chose to build the temple for a dwelling place of God, within the promised land. But even in this the spirit is speaking of the name, the nature of Jesus, being that throne that Gods WILL established forever. And so right at the incept we have the eternal spectrum in view into the new heavens and earth and the new Jerusalem.

And as God cannot lie, it must contain its truth within the eternal throne, King of Kings and everlasting. It must, as we know that Solomons kingdom came to an end in the natural, and we know that this age is temporal. BUT GOD, yes God has chosen to weave the fallen sons of men into his glorious message of Salvation – and that salvation has a reigning monarch! A King who never transgressed or committed iniquity.

And the Lord reverts from Solomons future transgressions not voiding the promises unto David, and that ‘Your throne shall be established forever’. And is not Solomon the fruit of Davids repentance from his transgression!

It was a WORD from God & a vision from God: Revelation of things to come: the testimony of Jesus Christ.

And so the promises unto Solomon concerning his throne and Kingdom find their origin in David, and David the shepherd boy appointed over the tribes of Jacob, his kingship had its origins in Abraham, who obeyed the voice of the Lord and took his Son to mount Moriah: The Father of the faith, the Father of the faith of Isaac and Jacob, the faith of promises not returning void. The faith of Abraham is singular, he was a friend of God: Islam is not a faith of promises, hence its inability to get to the heart of the issue: We need a saviour, Immanuel.

Origins in Abraham, Abraham entered the land that God instructed him to enter. And the word of promise was a blessings unto him, his family, and unto all who bless him. Amen, God promised Abraham that the blessing upon his life from God would benefit others if they received his testimony of having been blessed of God.

Origins in Abraham, Lot chose the lush plains of the valley of Jordan, but Abraham was fixed by trusting God. God affirms to Abraham, that the whole land has been given to him and then we have the first battle within the promised land as Abraham would not allow his nephew Lot to be cancelled from the promises made unto him. Yes Lot made a wrong choice in moving ever closer to Sodom, but he had followed Abraham into the land and he had a respect for the blessings and for the heavenly visitation, and while being horribly compromised Abraham knew that it was the heart of God that all who would enter the ark must flea the pending judgement.

And so the first battle, the first war in the land promised to Abraham is referenced as Abraham would not stand on the sidelines and allow his kinsmen to be taken into captivity by hostile forces to the promises and blessings of God.

Melchizedek the King of Salem comes out to meet him.

Genesis Ch 14 v19: And he blessed him and said, ‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand! And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

The priest of God Most High, a direct priest specifically unto THE GOD above all gods, the God of highest integrity, dignity, and honor. A God of Holiness.

A priest to offer the atoning sacrifice in the highest place, to make access unto God for mortal fallen man: A dwelling place, a city that has foundations, dwelt among us/tabernacled – Immanuel. 12-7-12 The foundation is the provided Lamb.

The High Priest affirms that Abrahams actions in the war, his motive and his victory were and are all part of the blessing of God – that the dominion originally intended for man is interwoven with the blessing. And the blessing was given specifically to man & women together, as common sense and logic & all the sciences attest that fruitfulness can only come through male & female.

Therefore, it was imperative that Abraham was met by the King of Salem before the King of Sodom as the Lord knew that after are victories the enemy is always alert to catch us unawares or to make an alliance with us on some ground or other.

Now when we consider Abrams words to the king of Sodom it is evident that more occurred in Abrams encounter with Melchizedek, than the text directly states.

The first battle of the Father of the faith.

And what is the battle that immediately confronts him after the first victory of his faith? To compromise with the King of Sodom, to form an alliance on some level.

This is the subtlety of Satan.

But Abraham, had not gone into this battle to pitch his own tent nearer to the lush valley and material wealth of Sodom. NO, NO, NO Abram had gone into this battle to rescue his Nephew who was taken captive because unlike Abram he had not kept his gaze heavenwards.

And so Abrams first battle was to rescue his nephew because he was living in territory promised unto him, but had been taken captive due to compromise with that which was opposed to the worship of God – materialism, money money money and the love of it is an enemy to the worship of God. God may bless people with material wealth but that is within his adjudication as the owner of the cattle upon a thousand hills.

And so we see that Abraham needed to stay consistent after his victory, a victory granted to him by the blessing of the living God creator of heaven and earth. And so the encounter with the priest of God Most High was the word not returning void – this encounter was an alter where the victory God had provided was being offered back to God in worship

GOD DOES NOT CHANGE – THAT IS ONE OF THE KEY INSIGHTS OF THIS FIRST BATTLE AND THE MANIFESTATION OF THE BLESSING.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today & forever.

Abram gave him a tenth of everything, a tenth of all that had been gathered and gained. Abram was acknowledging that yes indeed this victory over his enemies had come directly from God – and subsequently the ten tribes listed that the Lord was going to give Abrams seed victory over in the land promised in not by chance, its the reconciliation with the original mandate and blessing of God through the Cross of Jesus Christ – at the 9th hour of Calvary: FATHER into your hands I commit my spirit. We may have been enemies of God, but Jesus Christ took the penalty of are sins, and entered heaven itself to be are priest before the Most High God:

His works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. And again in this passage he said, ‘They shall not enter my rest’ Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, ‘Today, saying through David so long afterwards, in the words already quoted, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts’. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’; as he says also in another place, ‘You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek’.

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’ – ‘You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek’.

The Word of God came to John the Baptist during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas.

Jesus obeyed the prophetic ministry and Word that had come to John the Baptist, and despite not needing to be baptized for sins remission, he was still baptized to fulfill all righteousness. Repentance and Faith in his righteousness (believing God) – His baptism is identification so that are assurance is procured by faith in his righteousness alone – but the repentance produces the fruits of righteousness.

‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’ & in another place, ‘You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

The writer of the Hebrews epistle is joining together priesthood and Sonship. And immediately after Abrams encounter with the high priest Melchizedek God the father speaks concerning a Son to come forth from Abrams own loins.

‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’, Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest – The Word of God never returns void: It had been spoken to Zechariah as he was pressed up against the veil within the temple, and his son was from the line of Levi and Aaron: A prophet of the Most High preparing the way before the LORD.

Filled with the Holy Spirit – carried into the pulpit.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people.

– The original Word from beginning not returning void – 888 24/7 2+4 = 6 the day man created on and blessed by God. The witness of the fourth day, the multitude of lives distinct from the darkness, it follows the third, & the subsequent returning to Eden, and the river of life that waters: Rabboni.

2+2+2+2 = 8

2 x4 = 8

2 cubed = 8

2 the number of witness, testimony: Male and female

He has visited and redeemed his people – according to prophetic promises. And we note that the work is Gods, the visitation and the redemption of his people. Redemption is a gift packaged in weakness, the sign of swaddling cloths lying in a manger, the pure spotless lamb of God.

And we note that Jesus was born of the house of David, and that the promise to David and Abraham stayed the same: being saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.

Abrahams promised Son was offered back to God upon mount Moriah, the very place the angel of the Lord would draw back his sword from a judgement of death when King David was commanded by Gad to raise an alter to the Lord.

A sword of Judgement – Piercing through discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart – David a man after Gods own heart, powers of discernment trained (318 men) by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. The good seed is the tithe of Abraham, the 100 fold, his age when the son of promise born, this seed kept is the tree of life: The new covenant, the finished work of Christ & the entering into the sabbath of his rest.

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

And not only so, delightfully so, but also Rebecca, the beautiful daughter of Bethuel the 8th son of Micah.

The King anointed to represented the Lord who would fulfill all the promises, the 8th son of Jesse, who procured the ground for the temple in which Jesus would heal, teach and forgive: The prophetic procurement of the alter of that City to come, enabled the revealing of the bride, the Church, the type being Rebecca who although having not seen Him in the flesh aligned her heart with the leading of the Spirit by faith: Yes I will go with this man.

By faith she believed God and obtained the original blessing and mandate of God: may you become thousands of ten thousand, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him.

Psalm 110

Luke Ch 20 v41-44

– You are my Son, TODAY, I have begotten you’

This is as Jesus is 30 years old – this is the age of priesthood.

The Word that came to John came 6 months before, and John started baptizing as he himself reached the age of priestly service.

6 months of preparation of incubation until Jesus came in obedience to be baptized by John.

And so we see here that clearly the Levitical priesthood of Aaron represented by John is prophetically heralding a heavenly priesthood that is eternal and has no earthly genealogy: Hence, the Fathers declaration from heaven: Today!!

God the Father assigned the day of Jesus being 30 years old and water baptized in obedience to John as the day: TODAY….Sonship is prophesy concerning are testimony and worship of God.

Sonship, is receiving the word of God not void, it is the day promised, the day of Pentecost when the Church of Jesus Christ was birthed: The Promise of the Father.

Jesus had, has and will always have a direct line with his Father. As we embrace the truth of Him the Word of God, we can cry Abba Father. The only begotten Son of God was given, the seed that died to reproduce after his kind, so that we may know his Father, and know his as he knew him: Loved with everlasting love – hymn.

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Behold the Son begotten of the Father who is the provided one to be a sacrifice for the disobedience that brought death into creation.

This is my be loved Son, be loved, the Son who knew his fathers love before the fall of creation and the chaos it wrought. The High Priestly Prayer, John Ch 17 ‘that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them’.

The Father said: Let there be light (Jesus) and there was light (Many offspring).

(Jesus is eternal and the uncreated Son of God).

Visited and redeemed his people – light is Gods goodness unto all his creation (sparrows) – Worship is the revelation that light has returned to its source and redeemed the void of darkness.

This is my beloved Son, is God the Father taking religion out of the equation and making family the blessing of Gods divine order.

Luke Ch 20 v8: This is true of wokeism – that cannot give an answer due to it being an imposter of truth. Religious persecution may come from the apostate Church that has no authority, that does not trained men and women in the Word.

Luke Ch 20 v28 – 40.

Now the Sadducees knew about the 7 days of creation and the sabbath day of rest & they understood it in light of rabbinical teachings concerning completion.

Jesus moves the conversation onto the resurrection and the messianic promises that transcend the earthly family nuclei, but into the divine: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

7 wounds Calvary.

Male, Female and children.

Zechariah & Elizabeth & John.

Joseph & Mary & Jesus.

Neither John nor Jesus married. But every light distinct from the darkness has heard their cry: I die that light is multiplied. He must increase.

Jesus was barren at the Cross – appeared fruitless, sour wine.

His first words at the Cross: Father forgive them.

And his last: Father into your hands i commit my Spirit.

Jesus moves from the 7 into the 8. The Christ Davids Son, but they where not seeing the hour of their visitation as they were not fixed on the things of God.

They were not tuned into love but religion. They couldn’t hear the bridegrooms voice or his friend. But the Father of faith and the friend of God, can hear loves call: God will provide my Son a sacrifice.

And he loved her – love comes from the word of God not returning void.

Love is the crossing of the Jordan, so that the promises of God may reach the ears of those thirsty and hungry for the Fathers embrace.

The destruction of Jerusalem – looking on him who was pierced.

Eschatology is the outworking of Gods truth laid out at the beginning. Gods blessing unto Abraham and his offspring is irrevocable.

https://youtu.be/UoxPF_3CImM?si=WnmHXxCzSIemNEvI

David Pawson Isaiah series session 9: Ch 24 – Ch27

17 minutes

Last Saturday I listened to this while jogging. It blessed me as it was only as I was listening to this part that something in my thinking connected in respect to Genesis Ch 15 and Church. And that is not theology as such, but rather I hope encouragement from One person only, that grace is a uniting light of his life.

In respect to Wednesday, I acknowledge that it didn’t help me, that it affected me in my Spiritual walk with the Lord. Very challenging to me.

2 Kings Ch 2 v2: Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.

The tone of discipleship, not boasting that no matter how I act or what I do I can brush it off as ‘you will have to follow me anyway’. The Spirit of his Word Is always pitched to turn the hearts of children to fathers and fathers to children.

But the Spirit is faithful teacher, and yes this post does press into and overlap an anniversary of a prophetic Word that came from an anointed ministry, one which I am very indebted too.

The Kiss of restoration

1 Chronicles Ch 22 v6-9:

Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

David said to Solomon, ‘My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.

But the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.

‘Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days’.

‘He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’

2 Samuel Ch 12 v24:

Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

It is interesting that Solomon is named in 1 Chronicles Ch 22, as it could be assumed that King David is conveying that Solomon was specifically named during the prophetic word from Nathan when the word of the Lord came to him.

It is of interest as not only is Solomon not named in the direct renouncing in Chronicles and 2 Samuel concerning this event but other details are also absent such as that David has shed much blood.

This is of interest as it provides an insight into the scriptures and into the prophetic spirit of them that bears witness to Jesus Christ.

The recounting here of the word of the Lord from Nathan the prophet, is David speaking to his son Solomon and therefore details are included that are excluded from the other recordings of the event.

However, I think it very unlikely that Nathan conveyed Solomons name in the initial word of the Lord concerning his son being the one to build a house for the Lord. That is not due to the lack of Gods foreknowledge, no certainly not.

Personally, I believe Solomon was named through the prophetic word that came to Nathan during his birth, either before or after.

That is because David is clearly referring back to that Word from God in relation to his Son being commissioned to build the house for the Lord, which came from Nathan before ever he sinned with Bathsheba.

Now we could speculate that God spoke directly to King David concerning Solomon, and perhaps the shedding of blood would take on additional weight given the blood of Uriah that had been shed. Yet, I am inclined not to think in those terms due to the Word of the Lord from Nathan at both junctures.

And I tend to feel that the Lord would not repeat his clear word concerning the temple and his son building it. Plus scripture clearly affirms that the Lord sent a message via Nathan to King David during the birth of Solomon.

Therefore, I view v9 of Chronicles Ch 22 as being the fresh Word of God that came to David during Bathsheba’s pregnancy with Solomon, from Nathan the prophet.

This adds additional weight to the event in Chronicles as it shows a Father, David, recounting the naming and commissioning of his Son at his birth. And he does this as his life commission is about to commence! Davids life commission was bound up in the commission he spoke into his sons commission.

Davids life commission was bound up in the commission he spoke into his sons commission.

That which was in the Fathers heart, the work had to be finished by the Son.

Now this really presses into the prophetic testimony of Jesus Christ: Born to save sinners, Born King of the Jews.

And he called his name Solomon, this carries the weight of scripture, of a Father naming his child in accordance to the instructive Word of the Lord. Akin to John the Baptist and Joseph and Mary.

Some versions of scripture link Nathans word more closely to the name Jedidiah, and as I am not versed in Hebrew I cannot determine. But my inclination is to tie in up with the prophetic word from Nathan, as the promise in 1 Chronicles Ch 22 v9 is a word from the Lord which scripture tells us came from Nathan as I don’t believe the Lord would repeat the narrative of the temple directly to David. Plus Nathans actions when David was old was so 100 % done knowing that it was imperative that Solomon was anointed King and not Davids other sons, that we must know that Nathan knew by the word of Lord that this was this will of God.

This is exciting as it shows that at the key juncture the Lord spoke.

The Lord spoke to ensure that this son was the son who would be anointed to be king and the builder of the temple for the Lord.

Nathan, was there for the temple word, the good seed within Davids heart, Davids repentance, the fruit of Davids repentance and to ensure that the fruit of Davids repentance was crowned king. Here, we have four stages and I like to see a connection with the parable of the sower, the fourth ground being that which bears fruit due to understanding that it is the finished work of Jesus that bears good fruit – keeping hold of that seed.

The prophets ministry was to ensure that what had been birthed in Davids heart from the Lord, a man after my own heart, in the beginning was not brought to nought but that it would SPEAK concerning HIM, the KING OF KINGS and his redeeming grace.

Now it being the will of God is marvelous. Yes wonderful and marvelous. NO GOD FORBID THE SIN – but Solomon was not born out of sin, but the right kind of repentance, a consideration of those who you have damaged – repairing the breach. God does not add dishonor to dishonor – it is wonderful that David had to outwork his repentance fully. And heaven and the angelic host rejoiced in it – they rejoiced to see one sinner repent, they rejoiced when Jesus was born in a manger and the sign was a pure spotless lamb, wrapped in swaddling clothes the levitical shepherds understanding the prophetic ministry: Behold the Lamb of God.

They rejoiced as David obeyed the Lord and named his son Solomon.

And this gets to the very heart of biblical truth.

Solomon was not Davids firstborn, as was the case with Judah. The anointing was Gods choice not mans.

This is due to biblical theology:

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

All need saving.

All need repentance.

All need confession of pride and drive and the need for humility.

All need the grace and life of the second man: Jesus who is named to save us from our sins & selves.

And all the sons of David would be blessed under this foundational truth. All have fellowship with God, liberty and a role within Gods house on this foundational truth.

The choice of Solomon is Gods choice to seek and save the lost. That his house and the ark be full.

Rahab was grafted in out of the very walls of Jericho. And a women caught in the very act of adultery is spared to sin no more, when Jesus lifted HIMSELF UP in the temple as he taught early in the morning.

1 Chronicles Ch 20 v1

David was not in this battle for Gods law and his men. It was the heart of honor and for glory of God. Honoring Father & Son – honoring his men who had been dishonored.

In Chapter 19 David had sent men to console Hanun the son of Nahash. It was this battle line that David had drawn back from and it is this battle line alone that procures the victory.

This is Elisha kissing his Father and his mother, it is the law of Moses (1 Chronicles Ch 22 v13) by which Elijah was encouraged again with: the first horizontal law unto mankind if obeyed produces the good fruit of love for God.

This is the Jordan river: Repentance is being clothed again by the mantle of the Lamb – The Fathers speaks to his Son, my well beloved (Jedidiah), in this I am well pleased.

Johnathon understood biblical truth. He knew that it was not by might nor by power but by my Spirit says the Lord.

So…..So…RIGHT HERE we get clarity.

Yes we get clarity concerning biblical truth, King David fell into Sin when he withdrew from the battle line of fighting for his men and for a nation with a mandate to be the blessing promised to the Father of the faith through his dearly beloved Son.

The Ammonites could hear what David was doing but due to their darkened hearts they rejected the blessing and comfort of Gods covenant promises and chose shame and the curse instead. In their hearts they wanted to define what was good and evil, it was the worst kind of deception as they changed what was good into evil and vice versa.

In the last days good will be called evil and evil good.

And that it why it was critical that King David was in this fight and on the battle line.

And in our day the principles have not shifted, as Golda Meir stated concerning loving your children more than hating others.

Numbering the people! A great sin of David, and yet it leads to a Jebusite bowing to the King and freely offering his land for a place of sacrifice to the living God. This Jebusite had the very dwelling place of the Living God upon earth descend upon the land he gave.

Repentance always brings forth good fruit and good fruit that others can identify with as all know the law of sin and death and all know that we need a provided sacrifice from God for our sins.

A Jebusite, a descendant from Ham. A descendant of those who said we will not have King David reign over us in this city! What a contrast with Ornan.

Repentance – Luke Ch 15 when he cam to himself he said I will arise and return unto my Father. And the Father covered his Son, the sure mercies of David. The Father kissed him, the restoration – the true character of his nature was manifested when his son arose and returned. He honored his Father by returning from the void of emptiness to make the good confession: The sure mercies of David are far far exceedingly far more preferably than anything in this world. And in that kiss honor was transfused the lost being found and the angels rejoiced. The older son not realizing that he is the LORD of the Living and not the dead – it was a good day, it was the blessing prophesied in Malachi.

Numbered with the transgressors – threshing floor – God will provide for himself the sacrifice.

1 Chronicles Ch 17 v22

1 Chronicles Ch 16 v15-18

How anyone can alter that to mean anything other than what it means. It means their is a blessing when are hears are like Ornan, his land became the dwelling place of God upon the earth! His land, whose land, who separated the waters from the waters and made dry land appear? He was grafted into the promises unto Abraham as he desired that the angels rejoiced and not slay.

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1000 year reign of Christ on earth.

During Church age not visible generally – his reign, accept through his body the Church.

This is the Humility of Christ.

Crowned with a crown of thorns

The curse of God upon his head placed there by the hands of men.

Man placed the curse of God against earth upon his head.

Humility of God at birth & as a man at the Cross.

Allowing man to place his sin and rebellion upon his humility and headship.

1000 year reign of Christ and Church.

The final rebellion is a rejection of his Kingship of a royal crown – not as Davidic king only but as the Son of God.

God is humble thus humbly yourself and God will lift you to union his rule and reign which will keep you humble.

7,000 years on watch approx.

6,000 to date

4,000 AD

2,000 BC

1,000 Millennium.

End of Millennium 8,000

And the start of New beginning & all the ‘rest’ of eternity

– 8, the day after 7

Zebra, Giraffe and Kangeroo! Only more recently did it click that Friday was a missed opportunity…! Yes, I carried some weights and it resulted in temptation, as the day should have been spent in enjoyment with u.

Uniquely Jesus prayed

9th Sept Sanctify 2012

Luke Ch 1 v10

Luke Ch 3 v21

Luke Ch 11 v1-13

Hebrews Ch 10 v19-25

Lukes gospel is the only gospel that has the details that Jesus prayed and then the heavens ‘Opened’. Therefore, we recognize that the Holy Spirit has given an emphasis on Jesus and prayer uniquely in this gospel. And we not that the order starts with Zechariah being in the temple at the hour of prayer and after Jesus’s baptism we have the disciples of Jesus asking him to teach them to pray as John taught his disciples.

Jesus, incorporates fully the first two parts in his teaching. All the people having been baptized, if they prayed could say ‘Our Father’ & Jesus clearly emphasizes that the forgiveness of sins through repentance and faith at baptism incorporates the ‘all’ who have sinned against you personally.

The prayer goes from Johns baptism to being baptized in the Holy Spirit.

What Father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent.

Fish are the first thing in creation man was given dominion over, so how is it that a man was swallowed by a fish? Disobedience, the fall of man through a lie, a lying serpent who said that God had withheld something good from mankind.

But the ministry of prophecy is the truth of the Word of God.

When that disobedient prophet shared with the ‘all’ of Nineveh the truth that God forgives are sins when we repent of them and are ‘turning point’ in prayer unto him for mercy, that God never fails! He shared the Word of God, the testimony of Jesus, the ONE who was baptized for the sins of the whole world! The only perfect man who knew no personal sin.

This is the truth from the beginning, the Word made flesh and manifest. This is the truth that crushes the serpents head, who now slithers upon the ground unable to walk and talk! Walk and talk, Elijah was talking to Elisha when he parted from him, this is the cool breeze of the fellowship. But have you noticed how the intolerant political humanists cannot walk and talk, it is a slithering manner of speech, no uprightness or dignity or honor – a curse inherited through the fall from glory, that humanity would be better off deciding itself what was evil and what was good – despite it even being a lie against the Created Order, the order by which we have all been given birth and visible sight: A man is a man and a women is a women. Oh to be a trained man in Abrahams school of faith knowing your right hand from left hand – two by two into the ark.

Mercy from the throne room, the settled place from whence God speaks. This is the truth of God from the beginning, the prophetic Word that crushes the serpent’s head – notice how women receiving the Word of God plays the critical role – Will you go with this man? She said, ‘I will go’. The first born Son of promise, paving the way for the heavenly firstborn of creation, the man preferred before humanity ever fell. ‘Be it unto me according to thy word’ – two female bears, never despise the Word of prophecy.

This is the Word of God from the beginning, and the original blessing will always possess the gate of those who hate this seed of promise.

Because love always wins, the devil can only lie and plagiarise from the creator.

Ericka Kirk will be united with her beloved for eternity & thousands of ten thousand have been and will be strengthen in the blessing: Male & Female the divine order for family, that which makes a nation great again.

2 O then what raptured greetings

on Canaan’s happy shore,

what knitting severed friendships up

where partings are no more!

Then eyes with joy shall sparkle,

That brimmed with tears of late;

orphans no longer fatherless,

nor widows desolate.

Mrs Kirks testimony is the critical key of the victory – letting the victors in, the Word of God never returns void, the original let of God unto his image: O joy, for all its former woes, a thousandfold repaid.

I can say with certainty that I have been strengthen by the Spirit of God through the events of this week. And it has provoked me deeply to covenant to open my own curtain.

But the ministry of prophecy is the truth of the Word of God. When that prophet landed on the shore, mercy visited that wicked City of Nineveh. God has not withheld any good thing of himself for humanity, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: In 40 days!

The truth of God, ‘For this my Son was dead & is alive again’, the prophetic voice of the Father being spoken through the Son. Mercy, the forgiveness of men and women’s sins and the redemption of inheritance, the ring of Sonship.

In Lukes gospel it is after 40 days that his first sermon is recorded: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for others liberation from the serpents lies and oppression.

After the wilderness is redeemed, after devil overcome. At 40 a union.

Ask – if you being evil know how to give goods gifts unto your children how much more will your Heavenly Father give goods gifts unto those who ask him.

Johns gospel is the only gospel that does not specifically state that Jesus was baptized by John. This is not by chance, the emphasis in Johns gospel is on the Word made flesh.

John the baptizer spent his whole life with one rumination, on one meditation and consideration. John the baptizer every birthday had his father Zechariah a priest from the tribe of Levi and his mother recounted how his only means of communicating his love was through writing: Obedience fulfills prophecy, ‘His name is John’.

Anointed, released into prophetic ministry: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people – that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us! Corrie Ten Boom took the message of her sister Betsy all around this world. The tender ‘Mercy’ of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high.

From Jonah to Zechariah (15 prophets – Malachi being the bridge of the new) – Abel to the blood of Zechariah – the key of knowledge: the tender Mercy of our God – Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David.

John had the veil suddenly removed when Jesus came to him to be baptized. That which was preferred before him, before the Levi priesthood (30 years old Jesus @ baptism), before the ark of the covenant in the temple behind the curtain.

YES, the biggest YES is this YES – Obedience fulfills prophecy.

When Jesus obeyed the Word of God that had come to his cousin John in the wilderness and went out to him to be baptized, despite having no need of repentance. This fulfilled ‘ALL’ righteousness – Let is be so – The original blessing IN the word of God.

777 – It is Finished, It is Finished, It is Finished we have rest IN Christ due to his perfection of righteousness.

This fulfillment is uniquely placed in the ‘OPENING’ gospel, appropriately as this fulfillment is the introduction to a NEW TESTAMENT – that speaks of better things.

Jesus’s obedience is the key to the tender Mercies from on High: My Father in Heaven, Forgive them all their sins, because they do not have the knowledge that I have become sin in their place that they might become the sons of God (a royal ring).

They do not have the knowledge as they think as an evil generation thinks, but the prophetic ministry never returns void: Remember me, wisdom obtained by a thief & a Roman Centurion has a creative word from God, despite being in the army that cursed and mocked him having only evil thoughts – ‘Certainly, this man was innocent’ – bearing witness to HIS GOODNESS – if you being evil know how to give good things, God has withheld no good thing, this is the word of God shared with humanity from the dawn of creation – the truth of the tender mercy of Gods Word – the testimony of JESUS – crushing the serpents slithering lies.

But death itself was defeated by the Lamb slain before the foundation of this world.

“Jesus defeated death so you could live” – Charlie Kirk.

Johns gospel is focussed on the Word of God. In the beginning was the Word.

In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth & the earth was without form and void. And darkness covered the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, LET there be light and there was light – The word of God forgiving men their deepest crimes and restoring to light again.

What was Jesus praying when he was baptist?

Jesus knew it was a new chapter in his life and the start of his public ministry.

What was he praying? We don’t know, just as when he wrote upon the ground. But I know this, in his heart he was thanking his Father that he could now, call men into discipleship from the forgiveness of their sins back into the authority of his original mandate and blessing: Naming all the animals, the authority of the spoken Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, catching 3,000 men on the day of the fullness of his GRACE multiplied among humanity.

Not just fish – but restoring as he had been, his fellow man sharing the tender mercy of the good shepherd.

When the children of Israel protected their firstborn through the blood of the passover lamb, the roof and the sides of the door where covered by blood.

But the ground, the dust from which humanity was given the breath of God, was left uniquely for the Cross of Jesus, where his blood ran down upon that ground, OPENING the door into eternity.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he OPENED for us through the curtain that is his flesh – the Word became flesh – he is preferred the tender mercy before the law of sin and death.

And is not that heritage that distinguishes us from a society that cuts of the hand of thieves. No man no matter how great his crime or act of evil is beyond redemption if he repents and believes the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank God a minister who knew God preached and shared Gods word to the Nazis awaiting the just sentence for their crimes – and no doubts those who genuinely repented will one day be in heaven and Betsy Ten Boom who as her Father was a lover of the people of the book will greet them with love. The miracle of tender mercy as Corrie proved as she reached out her hand in obedience to the Nazi criminal who had been so cruel to her sister!

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Not from the priesthood of Levi, no a promise of better things, perfect things, that we might appear before Him without spot or blemish – the sign the angels loved to sing: wrapped in swaddling clothes, clothed in weakness to make us perfect – the Word of God made flesh.

We have a great high priest over the house of God.

On Friday I was asked to lead in prayer at a conference of a Nigerian speaker to the UK. I think it is the first public item I have been asked to do in respect to the ministry. To me it was fitting, and God is always in the detail as this mans ministry I am indebted to over many years, and at my lowest he spoke a word of faith to my Mother that kept her from despair. Ask, God answered the prayers of mothers, receiving their dead back to life – never despise the prophetic Word of God it determines where you will spend eternity.

I prayed shortly, but used the Word of God listed above as the launchpad of better things still to come.

Johns gospel is the only gospel that doesn’t have the 40 days of temptation in the wilderness. Uniquely the Holy Spirit desiring to emphasis the fusion of the Spirit and the Word: The Spirit and the Bride say: COME. When the Church is full of the Holy Ghost the Word of invitation is shared – but come with the right garments on – according to that which God clothed Adam & Eve again – Behold the Lamb of God.

No practicing homosexual who is not repenting of his or her sin shall enter the Kingdom of God – period – God in his faithfulness to this evil generation gave uniquely the apostle of Love (Oh how that devil is a slithering lying wicked creature) the final revelation that he never changeth – as in the days of Noah so shall it be in the day of his soon return. Two by two into the ark is a truth that never changeth.

It doesn’t have the wilderness of 40 days, but rather it has the wedding at Cana in Galilee, where the vessels for ritual cleansing were commanded to be filled with water to be transformed miraculously at the Cross, when his love is shared abroad: ‘Behold your Son, behold your mother’ the last sour wine of the Old Testament ending in a death That the ‘I Will’ of a new covenant of ‘and he loved her’ might be a fusion of divine order for family. The latter rain, and the ‘GOOD” wine until now. The original Opening of the first created mans side – His image being redeemed through the crimson tide from Jesus side: No good thing has he ever withheld, sharing even the perfect obedience of His Dearly Beloved Son.

There’s a crimson tide from the Savior’s side

777 – Jesus knowing that all was now finished, ended the Old priesthood – I thirst for other vessels to FILL – a fussion of love – the Word and the Spirit.

Matthew – Perfection/fulfillment of righteousness – uniquely

Mark – ? I cant see anything unique in Marks gospel that stands out at this moment – it repeats what is in Matthews gospel – how the Prophet ate Locusts and was it not sons and daughters who were baptized? (Joel) Perhaps, the unique aspect is that women is not named in a positive sense unto the veil is torn – Lukes gospel is full of the superior communication skills by faith of the women. Perhaps this delayed naming as being Good, despite women being the answer to his prayer: she kept asking – is to highlight the internal opening at calvary – that which was good and men needed to name – Rebecca J the 8th of Bethuel, and their is also a repetition on the importance of Camels for the prophetic ministry: a glad drawing of water from the well was imperative for the prophetic redemption of the years John had eaten locusts: THIS IS THAT – the fusion – Mans first recorded words in scripture flesh of my flesh ‘Women’, that which had been provided to fill the void of completing Gods Word of prophesy: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone’. His last Words in Marks gospel at the Cross being the answer to the question – Thou doesn’t seek a bride all pure and holy – song. Marks gospel uniquely has details of the great commission of sharing the truths of baptism and the signs that follow – they will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them – evidently Mark picked up where Paul had left off, showing that he restores the years the locust has eaten. Uniquely at the Cross, Uniquely the details of after Pentecost: sons and daughters – young and old: Zechariah & Elizabeth, Jospeh and Mary, Simeon and Anna: Gods divine order for the family.

Luke – Jesus ‘s Prayer – uniquely – Acts together in one accord – penned by Luke

John – The Word made flesh: the marriage union – uniquely.

The picture below is of the pulpit in the Church (used by more than one), which I hadn’t seen before preparing. For me it was a perfect touch of the opening of the scriptures, bringing it all together, even being on a Friday: Shabbat.

It was well received. And it was of interest to me personally Gods ordering that it should have been at this event. But it would be remiss to not remmber an anniversary of a Word not returning void – in which the thickness of the slowness of the walls does not prevent the word returning void – the fusion of a prodigal life with the royal lineage of the lion of the tribe of Judea.

Eternal Father, strong to save,

Meanwhile, John B. Dykes, an Anglican clergyman, composed the tune “Melita”, in 88 88 88[5] iambic meter, to accompany the HA&M version of 1861. Dykes was a well-known composer of nearly three hundred hymn tunes, many of which are still in use today.[6] “Melita” is an archaic term for Malta, an ancient seafaring nation which was then a colony of the British Empire, and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was the site of a shipwreck, mentioned in Acts of the Apostles (chapters 27–28), involving the Apostle Paul. (That slithering snake shown to be a lier by the tender mercy that had taken fear away from Paul)

The original words of the 1861 version are:[7]

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bid’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.

O Christ, Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.

Most Holy Spirit, Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
O hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power,
Our brethren shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe’er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Amen.

Obedience to the Faith

Acts Ch 6 v7

And the Word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Genesis Ch 12 – 22.

God knew that Abraham would offer back up to God what God himself had given. Abraham was a worshipper. Perhaps Isaac took so long to be born as it enabled Abraham to more fully comprehend that this gift of a promised Son had really come from God – that any child, a son or a daughter is due to the original blessing from God to multiply.

Abrahams offering of Isaac was an act of worship. But not centrally done due to a sense of sin!!

It was not done due to Abrahams own driven desire to appease the gods.

NO, it was worship as the gift had come from God it was a refusal in Abrahams heart to be separated from God – like Ruth with Naomi.

Abrahams offering of Isaac was Worship, done by faith as Gods heart could not have given life, to take it away, in respect to his own chosen promises to Abraham. Therefore, Abraham offered in worship and faith in Gods word of promise. Abraham believed that his obedience to faith would result in the blessing.

He believed God and his faith did not falter.

Abraham believed that God would raise Isaac from the grave according to promises made unto him directly concerning this specific Son. Abrahams faith was truly tested in respect to the obedience to Gods voice and word and worship.

Abraham placed obedience to God as primary.

Abraham was the type of man HE had been looking for in Eden. Someone who trusted his character. Someone who took obedience to his voice as a life & death matter!

Abraham had the benefit of seeing the impact of sin, but why hadn’t Abraham joined them, in their sin?

Abraham was drawn to know, he wanted a City with foundations (the 12 apostles of the Lamb/ 12 tribes of entrance – Elijah/Elisha Fathers & Sons with hearts towards each other).

Abrahams offering desired the communion and union with God – As his Lord, Father & Saviour.

Abraham had VISION, this set him apart – Prophesy is critical as it has the vision of Jesus Christ and his testimony. The original word of promise of a seed unto Eve and the subsequent promises unto Noah.

Acts Ch 7 v2: And Stephen said: ‘Brothers and Fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran.

400 years enslaved and afflicted in a land belonging to others.

Now we know that God meant it for good in respect to Joseph being sold into slavery, and that initially after his promotion to being a Prince of Egypt, that his brethren were not in slavery, per say, in the land of Goshen. Therefore, given what Stephen states here in respect to the 400 years of being enslaved and afflicted we conclude that the slavery and affliction included the timeframe prior to the actual physical slavery and affliction – this implies that being out of the land geographically was as much a part of the slavery and affliction and hence conversely it highlights that a change of geographical location was also only an outward expression of the liberty and freedom that God had originally breezed as he walked with man in the cool of the day and that the issue must by nature concern their own innate slavery and affliction to sin rather than remedied by merely a change of geographical location.

Right here we sense the purposes of God: To ground, literally ground are hearts in faith, being rooted and grounded in love – having strength to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth.

That, the 400 years was ordained to develop an assurance in Gods timeframe, that faith might arise in the heart for deliverance – internal rest with God. Assurance in the Word and work of God, that what God has said will be fulfilled: It is finished.

Acts Ch 7 v17 affirm that as the promise drew near, according to the prophetic timeline given to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt. This increase and multiplication is in accordance to the promises of God and the original mandate to man.

And while they did not appear enslaved and afflicted initially when in Egypt it would seem that a part of the reason for the sojourning in a land not their own was akin to the iniquity of the Amorites not yet being complete!

(And that ought to be held in light of this being after Noahs flood and that Judgement).

In that sin, innate sin from the fall, had impacted Jacobs children in selling Joseph into slavery.

Sin in Jacobs children – in a land not their own.

The Amorite sin not yet full.

The fact that Stephen states that they were afflicted and enslaved 400 years reaches simultaneously into truth – The truth that they were not in the land promised to their Father Abraham – the original garden of the Lord (Eden so to speak). This was simultaneously due to sin, the innate sin within the children of Jacob and the sin of the Amorite’s not yet being full.

Hence, the promised land needed a deliverer, a prophetic leader who could point towards an answer to the personal sin issue, and lead people into the land promised.

Therefore, deliverance from the innate sin issue was associated with the promised land and an obedient deliverer who is able to deal with the issue of blood, someone not born from the same corruption, but a heavenly leader and deliverer.

We should note that John the Baptists parents were both from the priesthood, the tribe of Levi. This matches the deliverer God raised up in Egypt with the intention to return the children of Israel back into the promised land. We note this as John the Baptist took his followers as far as the Jordan, just like Moses. We note this as Moses was also a prophet and as a prophet he spake of a prophet to come greater than himself – he must increase but I must decrease.

We note this as the priesthood gave tithes in Abraham’s loins.

And we note that the new covenant was a knowledge of the sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a knowledge that John the baptizer saw when Jesus came to him at the Jordan, the greatest of all the old testament prophets but the least in the kingdom of God exceeding him due to the mercy of God towards their iniquities and the will of God not remembering their sins: the personal knowledge of fathers voice – well done my beloved Son – accepted in the well beloved.

And we note that the new covenant was a knowledge of the sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a knowledge that John the baptizer had when Jesus came to him at the Jordan, a knowledge that lifted people out of the waters of judgement of sin and death, the sure anchor necessary for a baptism that flowed into the Dead Sea.

So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Awaiting his return.

Psalm 110

Jesus was buried in a tomb – A sure anchor, the power of an indestructible life, made a high priest not due to a legal bodily descent but due to being the sign the angels beheld from heaven: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is well pleased! The spotless lamb of God for the blood of sprinkling in heavenly places.

The God of glory appeared to Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, the God of this Glory. Abraham looked for a City with foundations, Zion the City of God, New Jerusalem.

Acts Ch 7 v42: 40 years in the wilderness, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon, beyond that place from which Abraham was first called.

400 years in Egypt and Moses raised up to lead them out – according to the timeframe of Gods Promised Word.

40-42 light refracting in a water droplet. 40 days overcoming the devil in the wilderness & from his baptism in water until the sealing of the covenant in his blood 42 months.

From the captivity in Babylon – Daniel given a vision and a timeframe, 69 weeks until Messiah cut off.

1 week remaining 7 years.

Luke Ch 2 v22-52 – Jesus brought into the temple as a 8 day old baby to be dedicated to the Lord according to the law of Moses. And the second half is at 12 years old and at the Passover when the inspiration of scripture records his first words that the Holy Spirit wanted penned: Father business is the that all should know the Lord from the least to the greatest that the will of Gods mercy through the forgiveness of their sins should be preached to all nations and every family: Acts Ch 10 v42-44 – Gods Word and mans made one – Preaching the gospel, eternal life, the truth of God as from the very beginning.

Luke Ch 2 v22-52 Jerusalem named 7 times. The City of David. The anti Christ will be revealed after a false peace of 3.5 years and then once his plagiarism is fully exposed declaring himself to be God – and when a lier is exposed murder follows – this is the darkness that has rejected the truth of Gods love that always gives life.

Psalm 110

The enemies of the Lord will be made his footstool – God Judged the nation as Stephen preached who opposed the fulfillment of prophesy (2 female bears – never mock prophesy). He will rule in the midst of his enemies, all the nations who gather against the promises of God unto Israel at the end of this age. He will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

Genesis Ch 14 v17-20 The Priest of God Most High was not just a High Priest, he was also a King. And the apostle of the Hebrews epistle informs us that Jesus is a King from the Davidic line and tribe of Judea.

Abraham, won a victory against other kings in battle and Abraham would not take anything from the king of Sodom.

King of Salem – peace & King of Jeru salem righteousness.

A prophetic encounter speaking of Jesus and the fulfillment of scripture in respect to his rule and reign.

First King of righteousness before King of peace – righteousness must come before peace. Jesus had to be baptized by John to fulfill all righteousness before he was crowned as King of the Jews at the very close of the 69th week. He is our peace who has broken down every wall – Ephesians Ch 2 v11-22. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near – John Ch 20 v19-23 – on the 8th day. A circumcision not made with hands but his winning are hearts.

Genesis Ch 14 v20 ‘and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand’!

Father Into your hands I commit my Spirit – while the earth is covered in pitch darkness from the 6th to the 9th hour.

Genesis Ch 15 v9 the redemption of masculinity and femininity. The Ram being paired with one half heifer and one half goat – Jesus is a redeemer and individuals captive in Sodom can be redeemed if they turn and look to Him as a way of escape.

Jesus on the Cross overcame every principality and power that exalts itself and argues against us – the accuser of the brethren – BUT the blood of the Lamb, the better covenant of eternal worth the Word of oath unto Abraham, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

How will I know – Genesis Ch 15 v8

Genesis Ch 22 v12 ‘now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me’. And he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in the thicket by his horns!!

Ordained to be caught according to Gods perfect timing upon mount Moriah – where the temple in Jerusalem would have its foundations laid. Prophesied unto Abraham when he paired it with the heifer and the female goat – Jesus has redeemed the bride – through his perfect fear of God, the wisdom that knows he is full Mercy and truth.

Acts Ch 6 v7

And the Word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

The Word of God in Creation is redemptive – hence the word of God increases and multiplies and people believe.

Stephen believed the redemptive timeframe of prophesy and he preached it and lifted Jesus up, for other men to see the Ram and Lamb of God.

It is impossible to please God without faith, those who come to him must believe in the faith of Abraham – I am your exceeding and great reward (God never said to Abraham he had been stupid to uphold biblical marriage as being between a man and a women, to the diametric contrary).

Genesis Ch 24 v6 See to it that you do not take my son back there.

Abraham didn’t believe in replacement theology despite having encountered the King of Salem before Moses was a twinkle in his Levi fathers eye. Abraham knew that the Word of God had to be kept, that God cannot lie, having sworn by promise, by his own Word.

Abraham was emphatic that his Son must be in the promised land. And that promised land has a future King from the tribe of Judea according to the sure mercies of David, and prophecy clearly states where he is returning to rule and reign. Zechariah

Crucified for the truth of being the Son of God – Redeeming fallen sons of men. Stephen saw it and preached the mercy of God the peace that flooded Sauls rest from legal works when the light of Jesus encountered him on the Damascus road.

As gentile believers we are grafted into the mystery which in other ages was not made known. Fellow heirs through Sonship, but grafted into the natural olive tree as Paul affirmed to the Romans.

Acts Ch 6 v7

And the Word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

30 at age of baptism the age of priesthood and One lamb, in whom God has named his Salvation: Jesus named to save from sin – the water cut from Adam. The Fathers voice at the lowest place of this earth, the lowest place of the fall, but above and before Adam fall – the mount of transfiguration – the heavenlies and the High Priest, the first born Son preferred before the Angel with a sword guarding the way to the tree of life. But thank God, that in the heavenlies the highest place, they spoke of his Exodus!!! Never doubt Gods love, never doubt that the accuser of the brethren is a lier concerning the redemptive power of the blood, the sure mercies of David, that enabled him despite his sins, to rest, knowing that he would not be left in a perishable state but raised due to him at Fathers right hand.

Acts Ch 6 v7

And the Word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Pefect symmetry.

Double portion Israel and USA

President Benjamin Netanyahu:

As the saying goes in this week’s Torah, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30)

This statement by the President of Israel was read for the first time seconds after reading and reflecting on 2 Kings Ch 4 v10: Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.

This is Gods ‘let us’ from the very beginning of creation, the image in which God made man: Male & Female to be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

God blessed them. And may he bless the USA and Israel as they place their trust in HIM.

This women was the opposite to Eve in respect to being drawn away by deception and a desire to bypass Gods ordained wisdom in that which we need to know. Yes, this women was a beautiful demonstration of a heart that wanted Immanuel, she wanted God in the centre of her home and family life. This great women, desired the covering of prophecy in a world full of chaos and war. Her heart desired the promises of Gods word to be the foundation of all her homes fruitfulness. Yes she wanted the next generation to know and honor GOD. And in a sense this women and the widow who proceeded her are another example of the two female bears who taught children never to mock the prophetic promises of Gods Word as they are health and security for all generations.

This ‘Let us’ places the Prophets chamber on the very top of her home. She was the polar opposite to Nimrod who built upwards in direct opposition to Gods promised blessing and command to have dominion over the whole earth. Nimrod wanted peace and security within his own structures and control, and was willing to disregard Gods Word of blessing in attempting to define what was right and wrong. Nimrods city aspired to reach into the heavens and not worship God, but to replace God with MAN being the answer – fallen and corrupted man will never bring a system of rule that brings the joy of liberty to men and women and children.

This women wanted a bed, a table, a chair and a lamp she wanted the Prophet to have the secondary provisions to maintain the primary: Reading Gods Word and prayer. This women wanted the Word of God to govern her home but also the nation and nations. This women wanted the living God, as she valued the promises of life and its abundance. This women knew that love and Joy come from the springs of Zion the city of God & that no foreign God cared for the next generation in respect to their relationship with the source of all the blessings and promises.

She wanted Gods Word at the top, in its rightful place & her obedience to Gods Word is outworked fully, fully demonstrating Gods sovereignty over all things, yes all things.

Shunem:

shu’-nem (Heb.)– two resting places; double supports; doubly reposed; two tranquil dwellings. A border city of Issachar.

And in many respects this women represents the double portion that Elisha had asked for from the Lord.

Elijah, the widow women he had been commanded to go to as she had been sovereignly chosen by the Lord to feed the prophet during the God determined famine. I have been blessed listening to David Pawson’s teaching on Israel and he affirms that when the Jews first returned to the land given to them by promise that a certain Rabbi prayed for rain at the start of the first major aliyah & the heavens opened and rain poured down. Mr Pawson correlates the rainfall in Israel with the return of the Jews to the land promised and their growing needs.

Ingathering of the Exiles Tied to Rainfall – New Study

1 Kings Ch 16 v34 Bethel, Jericho and then the Jordan. The same sequence in which Elisha receives his double portion. And it was a double portion requested for one reason and one reason only! That the heart of his mentor, that the SPIRIT of revival of the hearts of the people turning back to the true and living God: Men and Women, sons and daughters hearts turned to each other according to Gods first horizontal commandment that is the spring of commandment to bring genuine love for God – The Sabbath is a sacred day of rest as it is the day God finished his work, and it proceeds the horizontal benefits for others. Seven – the Sabbath is the connector as for the vertical to be the liberty and life God always had created men and women for, God had to fulfill it and finish it himself: @ 33 years old he cried: It is finished. Obedience to Gods commandment to honor father and mother sets the scene for the dynamic life of spontaneous liberty – the inspiration of Gods Spirit, the heart of prophecy and HIS testimony – He Worshipped his Father and would not give an inch to the rebellion of darkness – whom the Son sets free.

This widow maintains the prophet during the famine and when the famine is drawing to a close Elijah confronts King Ahab and the scene is set for the living God to send down fire upon Elijahs alter, as Elijahs alter was ordered according to those twelve stones of remembrance that Joshua obediently took up from the Jordan to place as a memorial: The ark having within it the vertical & horizontal commandments of God.

Franklin Graham set that rain is a sign of Gods blessing during the 45th Presidents inauguration. CNN ref to that day on the 19th of July concerning the forecast: ‘The chance of showers will increase throughout the morning – from around 40% at 7 a.m. to 70 to 80% when Trump puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of office at noon’.

And thank God President Trump choose to place his hand on a Bible known for its use in Revival.

I can remember watching the second inauguration of President Obama and it was a dark, dark, dark day for America. The Spirit of his inauguration had no joy or liberty, just confusion and oppression. It was the day he set out his desire to build into the heavens and dictate to God that his own thoughts and beliefs on sexuality and gender and blessing didnt depend on the God of Creation who made this world ‘THROUGH’ his WORD.

And Thank God, YES thank GOD for the contrast of a man who despite his flaws attempts to honor and respect GODS WORD and immediately started to protect girls who where sick and tired of boys and men winning in competitions they never should have been allowed to enter. The photo of that executive order had joy and gladness, just like the Iranian school girls who hate the oppression of a dark oppressive Islamic dictatorship.

David Pawson highlights that Israel is dependent upon the GOD who can change the direction of the wind for its rain. And no less the USA is dependent upon GOD for a third great awakening, that has always lead to its greatness. And as David Pawson says, the fear of God is the beginning of becoming Wise – that which Adam and Eve fell from.

But thank God, OH thank God that he clothed them with Lamb skins – flaws, we are all deeply flawed – but praise God Elijah passed to Elisha the mantle of the Lamb. And it was ‘through’ this mantle that the river Jordan was parted again. The cross is the passover into the promised land – sin flowed from Adam, but Grace and Truth came through the blood of the Lamb, the life he lived and sacrificed.

Elisha was honoring his father and mother – let me kiss them, they have taught me the fear of the Lord – and I will not bow down to a foreign Baal dark god. Thank God for the overturning of Wade – and what a terrible day for the United Kingdom whose atheistic dominated parliament to their shame voted to give license to murdering the most vulnerable at both ends of the spectrum.

And this horizontal yoke of obedience had the vertical shaft of the plough cutting an absolute truth ‘through’ the ground of Gods creation – preparing it for the seed that died (Christ) that others might also be fruitful according to GODs WORD from the beginning, the purpose of his Creation. The horizontal and vertical, learn of me for my burden is light: the mantle of the Lamb is the gentle and humble covering that comes because of the CROSS the first born Son promised to Abraham, through which every family (Male & Female and subsequently children) would be blessed, all nations. The first born Son from GOD promised to Abraham that GOD HIMSELF would provide: JESUS, the reason Baal is a complete and total LIE from the murderer from the beginning – the evil Devil and prince of Darkness and the first rebel – who Saul Alinsky tragically paid allegiance! All battles are primarily spiritual by nature, so we praise GOD that we know from GODS WORD where rebellions judgement shall be – banished from the love and welcome and well done of GOD – if you choose not to repent, with the demons and devil you shall be dammed.

Shunem – Principle of first mention in scripture.

Joshua Ch 19 v17-23

4 & a 3 – (Samuel as a boy in the temple – Peter 3 times and then Gods Word and mans combined)

Zebulun the third lot has 12 cities named, the last being significant due to its names meaning in respect to the Christ who would be born of the Davidic line In the town of Judea.

And Issachar has sixteen cities named (8×2 =16) a double portion of Elijahs ministry.

Two Sundays ago my thoughts were focussed of 11 & 12 despite not being penned, and thoughts concerning a series of videos done on ‘Jesus at the Center of the Promised Land’, how that the sons of Israel and the tribes placement around the tabernacle and then the land inherited are all interlinked around the birth, life lived growing up and death of JESUS CHRIST.

Zebulun & Issachar are two exceptions (geographically in respect to North and South Autumn and Spring Equinox respectively- and I suspect that also links in with what God was speaking prophetically through the prophets to the Northern kingdom and Southern – the cleansing of the temple Joash & Josiah) due to the principle of the promised land being procured through HIM the WORD of GOD made flesh who perfectly fulfilled TORAH and embodied the Worship of his Father the temple was built for.

4 x 3 =12 – The perfect obedient life Jesus lived to his earthly Father and Mother is the bridge from Bethlehem to Issachar. Elisha followed in his Fathers footsteps and received a double portion. And that is why Elisha’s ministry unto the Shunammite women is preceded by a Widow women – his has two women – a double portion, and the double portion contains the obedience of love not law, spontaneity and not servitude. The Shunammite women was attracted to the nature of God that had spared Noah and his family, 15 Let’s CLEAN pairing of Male and female into the ark, raised 15 cubits and 15 Let’s up-to and including the triune Gods creation of Mankind. JESUS standing on the shores of Galilee: named 15 times unto the end of Johns beloved gospel as his disciples are given dominion over the biggest of fish again.

Shunem – the place the Philistines gathered in the final battle that saw King Saul meet his end. And within that narrative, Saul’s disobedience bears its full fruit! Despite having done some right in ridding the land of witchcraft etc, here he is detached from God through disobedient seeking counsel through a channel he himself knew God was against! No wonder the prophetic Word spoke of his death. The uncircumcised Philistines whom Goliath challenged the armies of Israel to produce a man who was not afraid to defend the COVENANT PROMISES OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL.

Yes, a curse to rebuild Jericho, Abraham, Issac and Jacob: With man and God you have prevailed – ISRAEL.

And so Shunem here in this light is speaking into the Davidic line through whom all the armies of the twelve tribes received strength for the battle, seeing someone who trusted in the mantle of the Lamb: You Goliath can not steal the FATHERS PROVIDED COVENANTED PROMISED WORD – JOHN CRIED IT: BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD.

Like his mentor Elijah, the Shunammite women and her family are provided for in Philistine territory (Gentile)! Provided for during famine. GOD is faithful.

2 Kings Ch 8 v1-6

The disobedient King and the disobedient former servant of Elisha. Yes, GOD is sovereign over all things. Together they discussed the only life thats worth discussing (boring not to be in Church life), the ministry of prophesy gives testimony to Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the life – HE IS ETERNAL LIFE and he offers it to you today – a thief believed the promise when he saw how the sinless one died – and no deleting of the black box was needed at Calvary despite it being pitch black as the cry of the lamb is always full of LIGHT – and veil in the temple was torn in two.

The King appointed an official for her, saying, ‘Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now’

This has a prophetic aspect that reaches are current days. The restoration of ownership and its rooted to the covenant promises of God, and the resurrection of the promised Son and his returning to the land!! According to the Davidic covenant.

Elijah is mentioned in the New Testament 28 times in the gospels and twice in the letters making a total of 30. Perhaps that is linked to the age of priesthood and ministry, perhaps Zechariah being the last of the 15 minor prophets that Jesus mentions upon his last entrance to Jerusalem – starting with Jonah – Malachi as Bullinger states being the bridge of the New due to the Prophetic messenger and the anointed Christ being fortold: The blessing of latter rain and not a curse if we humble ourselves and seek his face.

Zechariah being a priest who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to receive the Word of Promise to be a Father to his Son to raise him to question and wonder in glorious mystery: What comes before my Father as he prayed for the people, what is beyond the veil, and what needs to be applied to the mercy seat that GOD may Speak of latter rain again: The Sure Mercies Promised to David upon which the temple was build – the Lamb slain before the foundations of the world.

Elisha I believe is mentioned only once! And in the context of Jesus opening of the prophetic book of all GODS liberty and freedom from oppression and religious, yes religious bondage and baggage. Recover of sight, Isaiah Ch 53. Today, if you believe it is fulfilled, it is your eternal year of Jubilee.

The widow, her two sons were spared slavery – bless God. And the Shunammite women had a resurrected Son returning to the land, with all the years the locust had eaten reclaimed. Is that why John ate them?

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Elijah was discouraged when King Ahab returned to rebellions source, instead of standing up as a man having witnessed the God who answers by fire. Oh if only he had taken off his shoes and enquired to have his eyes opened – God would have opened his heart to hear the babies cry: LIFE, LIFE, LIFE and its abundance – not slavery and oppressive totalitarian rule – bricks and get your own straw.

But Gods Word is Eternal 66 books every Word shall be proven to be true: Heaven may have the biggest screen streaming the details beyond are current comprehension.

And God instructed him to ‘Go’ this has the GO that the gospel must be preached to all his creation. Three men to be anointed. First Hazel, then Jehu and lastly Elisha.

Now I don’t fully understand this, and perhaps the Bible itself has more detail so pardon any gaps here, but it appears that Elijah started with Prophecy and its continuity – Elijah knew how important it was that GOD fulfills his WORD it does not return void.

Despite Hazel and specifics given, despite Jehu, Elijah seems to go first to the last. Does this have something of the last being first and the first being last – is this linked to the left and right hand side of scripture – the tree of life open again not guarded by a flaming sword to those who ‘through’ faith believe the curse was laid on HIM at Calvary – opening the tree that bears fruit in every month of the 12.

A recurring theme throughout the books of Kings and the whole Bible is, when up against darkness, give no quarter. Did not Ahab fall by the king God told him to finish etc etc. The King he shown mercy too showed his true colors by targeting him with his whole army – and that is darkness fully unveiled – Only the Davidic line understands the mercy of his maker. The Devil will never reciprocate mercy, and wisdom is to make the distinction between the one who will surrender through a desire to become merciful like dear Zaacheaus, a true son of Abraham despite his compromise and betrayal with Pagan Rome and those who have no desire to ever bless the sons of promise, Isaac and Jacobs line.

God shows his sovereignty through Elisha when they attempt to capture the Prophet who guided the King of Israel. God is greater than every strategy of darkness – that mountain was FULL of chariots of fire all around Elisha – a prophet doing his Job protecting the king of Israel.

But sadly this son of Ahab had no faith, and during Gods testing of him out came the very source of Jezebel and does he not speak in the same spirit as that wicked witch.

The love of God desires that no man perish – Elijah had a heart for Ahab, and Elisha was protecting his Son (God loves Fathers and sons he cares about generational blessing) – but their has to be a response when are eyes are being opened to the true spiritual nature of the battle – The Father loves the Son and the Son loved the Father – no foreign Gods, no Baal or golden calves – walk righteously and humbly with thy God.

Elisha is the one who speaks to Hazel concerning God foreknowing all he would do.

And it is Hazel who wounds Joram which leads to Jehu entering into the prophetic calling upon his life.

And it is really Jehu who rids Baal and its prophets by the sword. And that is very interesting as Hazel sword only wounds Joram and Elisha I don’t think struck any man with a sword unlike Elijah!

And yet Gods Word came to pass – and scripture double underlines it as being the fulfillment of that word of prophecy spoken in encouragement to Elijah when he fled the evil voice of the powers of wickedness in high places. Faithful GOD, Elijahs servant outworked his mentors Word of prophesy, not due to his own ability but through the principle of the SPIRIT of the LORD – not by might but through the mantle of the Lamb: Today Scripture is being fulfilled. The beloved and approved Son of all the springs of spontaneous love – My Father speaks from an open heaven – hear HIM and you shall GO free.

And gloriously, at Elisha death, we have none of King Hezekiah’s mistakes or King Ben-hadad’s surprise at the treachery of Hazel in his final line of sight.

Elisha knew the promises of God, and King Joash despite his feebleness procured a reclaiming of the ground against Hazel King of Syria. And according to the sure mercies unto David, even Jeroboam the second who did what was evil in the sight of God could not stop God from outworking the word of prophecy through his servant Jonah (After 40 days) – there bing none to help Israel – But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash – and the straight road to Damascus that Hazel was to be found on, also touch by the noonday Sun – the restoration of the LAND promised – Paul taking it to the heart of Pagan Rome – his letter to those affirming gentiles love your brother the Jew first and then others will see and know your good fruit.

Restored land – Elisha only mentions once in the new. Seven times in the Jordan he washed – but he understood the promised land, taking home some of the promised land so honor the living GOD – who doesn’t just answer by fire by also the giggle from a tickle.

Naaman’s comes after the Shunammite women and the healing of the stew.

But its this wonder that exposes the heart of Gehazi and is then afterwards – 7 years famine immediately before the sequence of Hazel and Jehu.

These 7 years are redemptive through this women’s test i mony. His will I seek, thy Word be fulfilled, despite baroness.

7 lean years – but GOD is faithful to his promises – as Joseph knew.

Double portion – 42 months of famine. Double portion, not taken into heaven, but dieing of a suffering sickness. Double portion, Ahab repented on some level, but King Joash echoes the cry of Elisha when shown the blueprint of heaven: GODS WORD PREVAILS OVER ALL OTHER gods AS GOD CAN NEVER LIE – we have an open heaven as the writer to the Hebrews exhorts us. The High Priest could only ever enter Once a year – perhaps that is why Elisha only mentioned once in the new!

We have a new High Priest ascended for us in the heavens, ‘through’ whom the SPIRIT is outpoured and he has been glorified.

The Upper room! YES the upper room the Shunammite built an upper room, that 120 living stones might ‘GO’ testify to HIS STORY the before and after as TIME itself is determined by his Times squared – YES squared according to apples knowledge of what should be defined on the pages of scripture. Wisdom is never found in evil but through a fear of God whose is the contrast to evil. Obedience or rebellion we choose life of death, light or eternal pitch darkness.

Wouldn’t you rather know that the stone is rolled away and the tomb of pitch darkness is empty, Elisha rested as he had already known his mentors testimony the resurrection of a widows son is an eternal victory: Behold thy Mother, Behold thy Son – LOVE between generations and families not a curse but the better wine of the vine.

The upper room – Yes the New Jerusalem, every foundation and gate of entrance a Jewish name. Zionism!!! Best not be anti Zion as you will not be at home in heaven. Heaven is the abc of harmony with the promises of GOD, it should be built upon the highest place of are home, as that is where we will spend eternity.

And a lamp was placed there. 7 the sabbath the light in the temple – JESUS the Menorah of the city to Come, the Lamb of God provided – we can only truly understand scripture when we see JESUS on every page we turn on the table, carved at the carpenters bench in the land of Zebulun and Naphtali – the people between the meditarean sea and Galilee a people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light – life. Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Walk with God.

It’s a challenge, but we have in are time all the signs of end times prophesy, wars and there rumors to go ‘through’ with God that other might see the true Hope Of Israel: Yeshua who did not falter when he overcame for 40 days and dipped in that Jordan that we might know what the patriarchs proved in their day: Be strong and courageous and walk humbly with thy God.

30 Priesthood – age of priests – age Jesus (7) baptised in Jordan – One name through which we are save – The priesthood offered one perfect lamb – One Lamb takes away the sins of the world – Jesus ‘God is my salvation’ ONE Saviour – Jesus Christ the Messiah

Matthew Ch 26 v53 Love Won the eternal victory for the Church – a Rock to stand upon

Matthew Ch 26 v53

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?

Jesus is not speaking in an illustration here, in that his statement is clearly a demonstration of his knowledge of his Father. And as we know that Jesus is truth, we know that when he refers, as he does here, to a possible course of action, that it is in fact a revealing of truth.

he will at once send me more than twelve legions of Angels!

Not with a delay of a week or a day or even an hour – but at once.

What a closeness Jesus has with his Father.

Jesus knew that if he appealed to his Father, he would have done this.

This has a dimension of mystery, in that during his prayer time in Gethsemane, he had surrendered his will unto his Fathers.

Mystery in that still he could have made this appeal and his Father would have answered it – immediately.

This makes us consider the uniqueness of the relationship between the Father and the Son and the process together in which they chose/willed together to redeem mankind.

The Son had yielded as a man to his Fathers will, and yet had he willed his Father to send angelic help in that moment it would have been done.

Jesus maintained autonomy to make such a request, else he would not have made this statement. This reveals the depths of spirituality, getting right down deep to the core principles.

Autonomy may not be the correct word to use, but on these areas we are at the limits of my vocabulary and understanding.

This reveals the depths of spirituality, getting right down deep to the core principles. Jesus lived in such harmony with his Father, that despite having autonomy as the Son he perpetually and seamlessly lived to glorify his Father.

Love has to be the essence of the Godhead. Unity is not truly possibly without love.

Jesus loves his Father and the Father loves his Son. Love gives freedom of choice, and as Jesus had never broken any law of his own being, his autonomy of choice had no guilt, no debt at work within him. This gets down to the root of why the laws of God cannot justify or redeem in and of themselves sinful man, as the nature of man being fallen is not motivated by love to keep the law, unless it is mixed with faith.

Now faith is, faith is the substance of things hoped for. Hebrews Ch 11 all of it.

Now faith is belief in the integrity and nature of God and it is therefore a bridge into the redemption of mankind through the Word of God: Jesus.

Now faith, faith is a now word, faith is an at once word, and the writer to the Hebrews uses his wisdom and understanding to start his reference to mankind with an example of obedience by a Son to his Fathers and Mothers instructions.

This example is Abel, who offered a lamb as a sacrifice, following the pattern by which the Lord God had clothed them both with again.

Abel believed that this pattern demonstrated Gods love unto a fallen creation.

Faith is the assurance of being clothed again by God, Revelation Ch 19 v8 & Ch 22 v14

By faith the people of old received their commendation.

Living to please God, to glorify God is the purpose God the Father purposed in the creation and specifically ‘In’ relation to his image and being an image of God, it is therefore a substance of things hoped for, as God himself alone can bridge that divide.

This is the created order, In the beginning God created.

This is the sanity and structure for individuals, family and society: In God we trust.

Gods spoken word must not return void it is the light of eternal truth.

It is the life of Jesus Christ, this is the inheritance of the assurance of faith, it is the clothing by which we are to put on.

Abel died, yet due to faith, he speaks still. Abel pleased God. Abels life offering pleased God. Abel obtained through faith the same testimony that the Father heralded when his Son was baptised in the river Jordan.

Enoch did not see death, but through faith he had the same testimony that he pleased God. Enoch’s life offering pleased God.

Noah through faith saved his whole household, and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. Noah was warned of events as yet unseen. This third example is prophetic of the days in which Jesus Christ will return to this earth.

Faith necessitates belief that God will fulfill his Word of promise & that is why Jesus being a scholar of the Word of God, apt at twelve years old to ask questions and give answers that they could not see, but he being the Passover lamb, understood that it was not the law of God that parted the Red Sea, but it was the obedience of faith that believed the promises of God are Yeah & Amen.

Mary & Joseph his earthly parents accused him of sin! Akin to the high priest and the scribes and elders. They accused him of not having honored them, but when it concerns the temple, when it concerns the Worship of God, of his Father, he is the Word made flesh, he is the visible assurance of faith, hope and love.

‘Do you not know, that I must be in harmony and union with my heavenly Fathers love’, and that being twelve it is my baptism into the autonomy of my life as the Son who has come to answer my Fathers heart cry: A spotless and pure lamb to clothe mankind again – the legions of Angels proclaimed that this indeed was the sign, a babe wrapped in levitical swaddling clothes to keep the lambs perfect for the sin offering.

The Fathers heart cry! Reciprocal tariffs! Well thank God we can set are minds on heavenly things…when Jesus cried ‘Lazarus come forth’ he knew his Father was going to answer his prayer, his prayer that they would see the victory in his sacrifice of love.

Jesus’s prayer was answered and he knew it was an answer to his prayer unto his Father, but his prayer to his Father was the same cry within the heart of his Father.

The resurrection, is the Fathers cry for all the sons and daughters of men. Not eternal damnation. Love, has no desire that souls go into the eternal abyss, but love does not shy away from the truth of the autonomy of choice for fallen men and women! Where do you choose to spend eternity, your faith in the nature of God and your response to faith will determine that.

The resurrection of Lazarus concerned the spiritual principle of love and the autonomy of love within the obedience of faith. It was not by change that a household that had welcomed Jesus and his love into their home, to be a sweet harmonious assurance that Gods Word shall be fulfilled, that this man was raised to new life from the dead. Paul states that people who do not love Jesus, should be accursed! Strong words, but it is stated in correct context and in the context that those outside the ark, where all consumed by the flood that had come to cleanse the earth of violence and hatred.

Love always wins! Love will not coexist with darkness and evil throughout eternity.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son.

He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead.

Abraham obeyed the speaking voice of God and took his Son as an offering to the very place God instructed, and their upon that mountain, upon that alter, Abraham was shown the outworking of fearing God – akin to Noah and the thief on the Cross.

Fearing God is the knowledge that God is willing to forgive sins, Fearing God is believing that this life on earth is temporal but eternity lasts forever. Fearing God, is the honest confession of the fall and its deep truth that only Gods love can bring mankind back into harmony with the purpose for which man was made: To glorify and please God.

Being clothed again, is faith in the finished work of God. Being clothed again is a believers standing IN Christ and his righteousness alone.

Liberty and freedom can only come through Jesus Christ, as he alone is the balance not of right or left but the uncorrupted heavenly man who stooped down into this accursed world of sin and fear!!!

Love conquers fear, as love always wins: Today you will be with me in paradise, what a contrast to Satan, who will not direct men and women to the bleeding sacrifice for their sins.

Abel still speaks despite having died.

Enoch did not see death

Noah saved his whole household from death.

And Abraham received his son as from the dead.

After Genesis Ch 22, Abraham understood that Gods Word would become flesh and would not return void. He understood that the unseen would become visible and that God would raise his own beloved Son promised from before the foundations of the World from among the dead. Preaching is the speaking that raises the dead.

And that is why the bride follows that mountain. And that is why Isaac was able to invoke by faith future blessings on his children. This is the well deeper than Jacobs, as worship of the Father cannot be by deception but necessitates truth, 5 husbands and the one now with is not your husband. The friend of the bridegroom testifies that the Father gives the Spirit to the Son without measure – a river that goes beyond shoulder deep, a bottomless ocean. Living water, that bears fruit in every month of the year. She desired to be loved and not to have the wrath of God abiding on her, and so she was liberated and set free into autonomous spontaneity, leaving her water pot and sharing Gods love with others.

Matthew Ch 26 v54 & 56 the fulfillment of scripture – the freewill offering of the beloved Son.

More than twelve legions of angels.

Joshua Ch 4 v5 ‘Pass on before the ark of the Lord God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel’.

A memorial forever.

That you may fear the Lord your God forever.

The generation that had not passed through the Red Sea. And then the next generation is circumcised.

The Church, the bride, are to be this new generation – redeemed by faith in his testimony – who pleased God at all times, at 12 years old at 30 years old and when he was offered at 33 years old.

The waters where stopped at Adam. Jesus Christ is a new generation, the autonomy of love can become the harmony of are obedience to him.

The law and the prophets are higher up than Adam – higher up than before he failed under temptation – they are the nature of God – interwoven, inseparable from his character. But the law and Gods fulfillment of it must be channeled only through the beloved Son, as He is the invisible image of God made manifest. Are bodies are not yet redeemed and so we groan for the adoption with the creation for the fullness of time.

Rahab is saved through faith. Rahab and akin to Noah, all her household were saved.

Rahab was obedient to the covenant promises of God, she was not disobedient when faith came knocking on her door! No rather she welcomed them in. And she became a part of the direct lineage of Jesus Christ, a great great grandmother of King David.

She became a part of the bride. She was clothed again. Not with Babylonian garments, but by the covering of the lamb -the passover lamb, the staff of the good shepherd that had parted the Red Sea.

She was circumcised by faith, as she believed the nature of God. Rahab had heard the laws of God written on two tablets of stone, and she understood that 5 and a casual one did not amount to a deep well her heart and soul longed to drink from.

She did not perish with those who were disobedient!!! Disobedient to what might we ask? To the fulfillment of Gods Word, which are the Holy Scriptures. Seeing Houthi’s killed gives me no pleasure, and the cry for them is the light and love of the gospel. But the spirit they have embraced is anti Christ, it is deception that man can stop God fulfilling his promises in the scripture. Yes disobedience impaired the conquest of the entire land promised, but in prophecy their is a millennium kingdom still to come and also great sorrow for the people of the book.

Disobedient to what? They opposed Gods Word, they opposed the ark of God! They opposed the angelic host and the commander of its Host – Which is Jesus, more then twelve legions he would have been sent.

The answer for the Middle East, is simple if the truth be told, love the Jews. Why should the Jews not be loved, why should they not be in the land that is clearly their ancestral land, and why should they not have a nation to call their own when they have been persecuted in other nations, and forced out and banned from other Middle East countries.

Rahab was obedient as she also feared God, she knew that this was the living God, who could order heaven and earth, and who didn’t need stones to cast at idols to walk around, but rather his Spirit brings liberty and not oppression behind a veil.

1 Corinthians Ch 15 The Resurrection of Christ.

Verse three, the gospel in a nutshell: For I delivered to you of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

The he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

What should be noted here is that Paul and the early Church’s fellowshipped on the centrality of this truth and they loved his appearing. The early Church did not get tired of fellowshipping on the central truth of all their gospel liberty. Raised to live in hope and purity again, raised to love the Houthi’s and the Japanese and Eskimos. And has not the gospel gone into all those people groups – the language of love is the truth told concerning Jesus’s death and resurrection. Did not Thomas takes its truth through Persia and into India – I doubt it not: The bride of Christ is from ever nation and people who obey the word of faith: For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Repetition: Scripture is fulfilled in Jesus. The blessings to Father Abraham by faith.

Repetition – Paul does not mention the Marys who where first to meet his. Paul knew very well their testimony, Paul sought out immediately to drink living water from those who also loved his appearing.

Paul does not mention them for reasons beyond my current understanding. But we see Repetition here, we see divine order that all scripture is inspired.

Cephas, the Aramaic name for Peter, the revelation the deep deep blessings of the Father opening his eyes to fellowship with his Son. Jesus fellowshipped with Peter in that Q&A as Peter answered the main and central reason he had come. Not who do the crowd say that I am, or the mediaties (media) but who do you say that I am: You are the bridgroom, you are not the friend of one to come, but your love is the attraction that we desire to have harmony/unity with. You are the love from God that we need to stop the blame game from Adam – only an encounter with you can we know a higher stream. Their is a higher stream than the World Wide Web, and it cry’s Holy, Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty – who was and is and is to come.

Peter was then immediately afterwards rebuked for attempting to cajole Jesus out of going to the Cross, and this lack of respect and understanding of the way of faith that pleased God, lead to Peter being shifted as wheat, but thank God Jesus had named him Cephas, as the place God had lead his great, great, great and perhaps about 41 greats too was a rock, a rock upon which Gods Will provided the perfect spotless sacrifice from within his own Godhead: His only begotten Son.

The law and prophecy only live again in Jesus. And so we know the Jesus will return to the mount of Olives & we know that they shall look upon him whom they pierced.

12 – this 12 is the apostles – despite the text not saying it.

Then 500. In some manner I view this has associated with the five wounds received at calvary. The Number of grace by a factor of 100 – the age of Abraham when Isaac was born. The fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, that from himself he would have a Son – the invisible image of God was being manifested to this man who was obedient to Gods speaking.

Then he appeared to James – the half brother of Jesus, who in the gospels had doubted that he was the bridegroom – that he was the Messiah and the fulfillment of all scripture. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.

Two major failures in the way of faith. Two men blind to the ways of Gods Spirit as opposed to the slashing sword and brute force of good willed flesh and blood to be loyal to the cause. Be it unto me according to thy Word had birthed redemption into a well deeper than Jacob could reach.

Then all the 12 apostles again – dear Mathias I’m sure due to the inspiration of scripture none will say in the age to come to question his inclusion. Can you imagine being with the 500 and Cephas who understood that scripture must be fulfilled, and asking Matthias why are you one of the foundation stones of the new!

The Jordan – passing through the Jordan – acknowledging like Peter that I am a sinful man, hearing the voice of the friend of the bridegroom and following the lamb, and being able to testify to all that he taught and did, and that he died and rose again – the scriptures had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David.

Is not the Jordan a memorial to the way of faith, is it not reality that we are indeed sinners in need of saving by grace. Is not confession of sins and repentance and faith towards the living God is this not the truth to be told to every nation and family of the earth, publicans, prostitutes and corrupt public servants included too.

And Paul correctly, knowing his Spiritual life was birthed out of the love from his fellow Jew whoes faith pleased God, whose obedient proclamation told the truth and still speaks: Forgive them.

Paul understood that he was only an extension of that which God was at work doing – Paul who had been blind to John Ch 3 v16 had opposed its truth from spreading outwards. Paul knew that it was all the finished work of the Word made flesh, it had become living to him through Stephens cry – a sharp edge that pricked his conscious – I do not believe he witnessed the Cross of Jesus.

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared to me.

Untimely born, does that have an element in it of not having seen Jesus in the flesh before his death.

James followed on from Peter in Jerusalem. But the mystery of the revelation revealed to Paul, was the two becoming one, of Christ in you the hope of glory, a spotless and perfect advocate before the God of Covenant appearing on are behalf.

Peter, then the half brother of the Lord and then lastly Paul.

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More than twelve legions of Angels!

Paul was certainly more than all the other apostles due to the grace of God that had opened his eyes to the nature of God that cry’s out on the Cross: Let not my suffering be in vain – Today harden not your hearts, but enter into harmony with the Father through the sacrifice of his Son. It is Finished the liberty that sets the chains from Adam free from captivity.

John Ch 3 v16.

6 appearings.

3 personal. 3 corporate.

– NB. Every aware that this post comes from others sanctification and commission, and the wonders that can follow through obedience to the way of Gods Spirit.

At are morning missionary prayer meeting today, the senior elder prayed for a situation external to are Church that needed Gods unity and he prayed and quoted from Johns gospel Ch 17 and Jesus’s prayer for oneness for his people.

After he prayed my thoughts went to Joseph and how he was 17 years old when he first appears on the pages of scripture as an adult. And how around this time a coat, a garment of physical matter, was placed on him.

And how that he was reconciled to his Father for 17 years. Gods Alpha & Omega over the Father & Sons love.

Now I know that Chapters are not under divine inspiration, but I have been blessed with a lateral mind, and so Ch 17 of Johns gospel was the hinge of this for me.

All color requires light.

And the garment Joseph had been given by his fathers love was one of physical matter, the seen & tangible.

Unity John Ch17: The Word made flesh, reconciling fallen men and women to the Father. One in and through the Son.

Water & light Gen Ch 1v3

THE WORD OF GOD NOT RETURNING VOID – NEEDED WATER REPENTANCE

The goodness of God leads men to repentance.

JESUS is the light that went into water baptism – that is the Covenant keeping God fulfilling all the laws righteousness on are behalf – Baptised into the penalty of sin, death on are behalf – Behold, Behold the Lamb (The mantle, the clothing of Fathers best robe of righteousness).

So…all colour in material word requires light, But the unseen is made visible in Baptism!

When the Word made flesh the light of the world was baptized in water.

Hebrews Ch 11

Water is a liquid not a solid and I am linking it with the unseen.

And so we see the unseen when Jesus is baptized – The covenant promises of God to be seen, require water and light. Repentance and then a new life.

So light in the material world, Jacob placing a physical solid garment of many colors on his beloved Son Joseph.

But the tears of Joseph, the water, brought the repentance and then reconciliation between brethren and the family. And confession of their sin/sins.

The tears brought the revelation of the covenant keeping almighty Great I Am – to the whole family – who had foretold those days to Josephs great grandfather.

Jesus wept tears in the garden of Gethsemane, John Ch 17

Hebrews Ch 11 v1-3

The truth be told – The confession of the fall is a knowledge out of reach to no man. Time itself ascribes to the universal truth that touched the heart of empire.

Confession of sin brings the revelation of the Covenant keeping truth of ALMIGHTY GOD: Son of David have Mercy on me – light brings sight. He is the light of life.

Confession of sin brings the revealtion of God the Father: Every good thing comes down from the father of lights.

Confession of sin brings the revealtion of God – By it the men of Old gained approval: After being baptized, Jesus came up ‘immediately’ from the water; and behold the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on him. And behold a voice out of the heavens said, ‘This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased’ – 

Old and new treasure. This is the bank of the scribe of far more worth than Gold reserves. Noah elderly his whole family into an ark – The old world in type saved through his faith. Moses a new born baby placed into a ark of bulrushes. And in between a man and a women past child bearing age, given a new birth by the covenant promises of God.

– How will the scriptures be fulfilled, if the lamb is not slain, who offered himself freely before the foundations and visible tangible creation.

To me it was a clear moving of Gods Spirit in my thoughts, inspired by are senior elders prayer. So I asked at the near closing to share the reflections as it also had a point, that the oneness Jesus prayed for, necessitates repentance and confession of sin.  

Well as it was a missionary prayer meeting he thought it best to stay on prayer.

It had a little of a cork effect, until I remembered that this is according to divine repetition and the Word of prophesy Sept 2012, and this made me laugh and smile releasing the cork of Gods liberty.

Yesterday was a very blessed day in the many small details.

A lady in Church shared about Lazarus and his old smelly garments being left behind. She said do we have ears to hear this, that God has put are sins and mess behind us, and that we have new garments.

After Church a chap across the street was chatting to me, as he was following up on having told me his Father had died recently. Well, he had bought three new suits with some life insurance policy inherited from his Father, and had taken a few days of work, as his dad had always wanted him to treat himself with it. Plus his dad wore pin stripped suits and so he was also honoring his memory in that respect. It synced with me concerning what God has done for us through the resurrection: For this my son was dead and is alive again – John Ch 3 v16.

Then I got into a chat with another neighbor I’d never met before and got to telling him about my Mums visit to North Korea and how God answered prayer in that her group did not have to go bow to the statue of a man. And then onto Berlin and the Pergamun museum and King Nebuchadnezzar and the three Hebrew children thrown into the fire.

While walking home through the park, I saw an older man who I knew as a brother in the Lord, and he had been to a Church that morning the Word being on Ezekiel Ch 38 and can these dry bones live? When we parted he stated that he was surprised that I recognized him given time that had passed, but he has a light within that shows on his face, he has encountered the Christ and so I told him that especially as he is getting on a wee bit that the answer to Ezekiel Ch 38 is an affirmative Yes. Well seconds after continuing my walk home the song started from the City of my formative years.

Here I am brings joy to God

Genesis Ch 22 v1-2

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am’.

He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.

God speaks here to Abraham, and Abraham responds.

The greatest revelation of God in the Old Testament and prophetic of Gods redemption plan starts with God speaking and man responding.

Here we have the worship of God! God has spoken, man responds to that which God has spoken. Worship necessitates this type of relationship, and hence worship is in spirit and truth and not a marriage to the law.

This relationship is living, a response to Gods direct word must produce life as man lives by the words God has spoken. God made man to live a full life.

Abrahams journey started in precisely the same manner, God called him and Abraham responded to that call. Bread and butter spirituality has this constant: God speaks, we respond to him.

How Abraham responds is of interest. God has not come to crush his creation, Abraham responds with ownership over his own will, Abraham maintains his desire to know the God who had promised him his own endowed WILL of blessing.

Abraham, was not hiding among the trees. When God spoke his name, immediately Abraham responds to affirm that he is in the light of the day.

Abrahams call had been unto a separation, not one of isolation but to facilitate a blessing unto all others.

Abrahams call, is akin to New Testament truth; the generation of Jesus Christ, not the gospel of Adams humanism or his religious zeal unto static granite stone. A new test, the test of the obedient son. Conformed unto the image of his Son.

Gods WILL was to show Abraham a land, to make him into a great nation, to endow blessings to such a measure that others would be blessed due to his blessing – period! Simply a blessing……this is raw and authentic spirituality…..just being a blessing! No argument, no pushing and shoving, no moaning and groaning, just being a blessing unto others.

Here I am. A full blooded man, with the capacity of choice and the ability to go my own path. But Abrahams, ‘Here I am’ is one with a servant heart underpinning it.

‘Here I am’, has no battle of wills. Abraham has embraced Gods promises of blessing, of life.

Him who dishonour you, ‘I will curse’.

God promises Abraham, that his name being brought unto reputation, unto greatness, will incorporate his own name and nature.

God who made heaven and earth, promises that through Abraham a demarcation will be made between blessings and curse. Therefore, anyone who dishonours Abraham will be cursed.

But the promise is unto all, every family of the earth will be blessed if they bless Abraham.

In essence God promised Abraham, that he is able to restore mankind into the original place of dominion, and of Gods first spoken Word unto man: And God blessed them.

God makes a demarcation with Abraham, faith is a necessity, and faith in the resurrection of the dead. Death came into humanity as a direct result of mans disobedience to Gods Word of perpetual and permanent life. Death came as a consequence of believing and acting upon a lie.

Therefore, this land of promise had to have mount Moriah, it had to have a high point that revealed the greatness of God unto an obedient son. It had to have a place where faith in action believed that the greatness of God could raise the dead.

This centers are thoughts on many truths. But in context it also speaks into the possibility that the valley of dry bones that Ezekiel is called to prophesy to, may well have been speaking concerning the Holocaust and the subsequent rebirthing of the Nation of Israel.

It centers thoughts on the rightness of moving embassies to the Capital of Israel, as it is bearing witness to the truths of Gods word and of Gods promise to bless those who bless Abraham and his seed.

And while Issac and Jacob were blessed directly due to Abraham, they also had to walk in the same footsteps of faith. It is impossible to please God, without ‘Here I am’ and faith that God raises the dead.

The book of Galatians, Pauls epistle of demarcation, of two diverse mountains; one free born and one in bondage, Paul is exhorting believers to maintain faith in the simplicity of the blessing not the law written on stone – a material that doesn’t convert the true grace of God (the rising Son) into vital nutrients for those in the land of the spiritually living.

Abrahams obedience was grounded to his faith in Gods promises. Abraham believed that God having promised and having given a Son, must raise him from the dead to fulfill his promises.

Abrahams obedience gave testimony that he believed God must provide the sacrifice. Abrahams obedience was rooted to his faith in Gods charater of promise.

The promise of God to Abraham had become flesh and blood, therefore, God must maintain the promise, after the alter of sacrifice. This speaks of the man of grace in whom we live and move and have our being – his flesh and blood life must come from him and his finished work.

‘Here I am’ facilitates the whole gospel. It blesses every family and nation, it contains all the fruits of the spirit. Here I am, its not a mountain of bondage, of religious sacrifice but one that recognizes that God laid upon the blessed one, all the sins, the curse of the fall – bringing death.

‘Here I am’, that is all it takes for God to reveal the truth concerning his unchangeable character: the same yesterday, today and forever. The lamb slain before the foundations of the earth, Gods provided sacrifice, the Word made flesh: My Fathers business and in eternity: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessings.

To be God to you – righteousness that liberates

Genesis Ch 17

Abraham and the covenant of circumcision.

The Lord again makes promises unto Abraham, promises reinforced from Ch 12 & 15, promises more detailed and as such a greater manifestation of the glory of God.

The God of glory appeared unto Abraham.

And through Abraham, we have the path set unto the redemption of Man, the reconciliation from the fall, a reconnection with the God of glory.

This encounter starts with the following words from the Lord: ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.’

‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless’

This is the theology of GOD!

He is!

By faith we can please him.

He is GOD, he is not one of many, but he is Almighty: in that their is nothing created that has been created outside of Him.

GOD, does not have a split personality. God is direct in his speech and God leads.

Yes, God leads in this relationship of Creator and Creation, and the walk is before him…..!

Yes, the walk is before him – No graven image – No idolatry – but living reality, a walk before GOD.

And be blameless! God does not give Abraham licencse to be immoral. The moral code that is more clearly defined later, is without question part of the blameless walk.

God spoke this to Abraham when he was 99 years old, hence Abraham was well acquainted with his faults at this age. But also he understood more clearly the leading of God and while the high calling was unto a blameless walk, it was not a call to introspective fault finding, NO, the greatness of God had always been the initiator of Abrahams faith and in the quest for a city that has foundations whose builder and maker is God, Abraham had been looking unto God, not himself – hence he was a nomadic tent dweller, as his security was not in the bricks and mortar of the physical.

That I may!

Abraham falls on his face!

Abrahams blameless walk starts with a very honest confession.

I believe this gets to the roots of justification by faith. I believe this is the righteousness of faith that is about to be counted unto him.

Abraham, starts without a singe step, he doesn’t move an inch in walking blameless after God has commanded him to do so.

That I may – God approves of Abrahams downward motion, straight down, in fact his feet in all likelihood went back a step from where his knees touched the ground.

This is a principle to knowing God – triumphalism, embracing liberty based on truth may not have the supply of the reality of GOD through his Word of promise: Worship is what God seeks.

That I may – becomes, ‘Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations’.

We must catch the centrality of the covenant promise: to be God to you and to your offspring after you’

This is marvelous, this is a yoke of light and delight.

This is the provision coming directly from God, this is the ALMIGHTINESS of GOD being at work to do his good pleasure. Blameless and innocent, children of God.

God promises to Abraham, a specific land. At no point does God in the repetition of covenant promises nor in the greater detail alter the fact that he as almighty God is giving Abraham and his seed-line a specific land. To be God to you…..therefore for a dwelling place, for a light in the night sky, they were lead unto the territory of the promised land.

Christianity, cannot be divorced from the land of promises, only this land has God being God to you! The blessing for nations and families stem from this land branch. The earth is the Lords and the fullness there of….but it starts with the faith of Abraham.

God must be the God of your land, a possession that he has given you. We do not shape are own land, we do not instruct God on are borders, what God says is to determine are beliefs and conduct. Hatred of the Jews is a manifestation of rebellion against God himself.

And I will be their God. The success of Israel over the last 15 months has had a dimension to great for the skill of men alone, not that the road ahead does not have further betrayal and suffering.

Anti Christ, will not be as God unto the Jews, but rather the fullness of man in his most serpent and ruthlessly cruel hardness.

That very day Abraham obeyed God and had all male circumcised.

Isaac was born to a circumcised Abraham. A cutting away of human flesh/effort and a fulfillment of the Son by promise.

Abraham obeyed God instantly, Abraham did not put off that which had been commanded to another day. Another day never comes around in respect to obedience – Today is the day of salvation.

This obedience along with his lack of grabbing for himself in respect to allowing Lot to pick the side he turned too, exemplifies the charater of this man God chose.

Genesis Ch 18

The principles of worship had not abated in Abrahams life, as the promise grew nearer Abraham ran and worshipped.

Abraham was excited, Abraham had a clear conscience before God.

What a key, for running! I have noticed that when I run and have negative thoughts I find running immediately more difficult, negative thoughts in respect to circumstances and people rather than on the exercise itself.

This is a prophetic encounter, as with the Shunammite women in Elishas day, Abraham was not content to have these men pass by.

Abraham, seems to have intuitively known that they had come on a mission that had a further destination than just him.

I believe that that is a critical spiritual principle. Man does not set the conditions for his encounters with God, but rather God appears to the hungry heart, those who place themselves within the places and paths of known blessing. Church meetings, and conferences, time in the word. God is very unlikely to meet with an individual who can attend such but declines to prioritize based on his own demands.

Wonderful!

I doubt that these three men were overly hungry, but I love the personality of expression by Abraham, that opens up to us the very heart of God: Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes’

Was Abraham a chauvinist? No, but they had roles, and he was her head.

I don’t think it’s helpful to interject that in respect to Abraham’s instructions to Sarah, but its good reflection for a world that teaches disorder concerning the sexes as God intended.

Wonderful! Quick… Abraham started to move immediately into hospitality for these three men. I think his excitement was a spark Sarah caught, as she lovingly moved with speed. Together they were serving the Lord, and that togetherness was the foundation of the national blessing!

A prophetic encounter, three seahs: Family Gods Divine Order: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

Elisha called her to the doorway of his room, in a prophetic sense he was just beyond the alter of incense, while she was summoned to it. Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him, fully a part of proceedings that day, despite appearing outside her prayer was the topic of conversation.

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. Having a servant heart unto the Lord brought Abraham into the prophetic, into the spontaneous – Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

Abraham, who would not take anything from the King of Sodom, Abraham who did not choose the lush valley towards the wicked men of Sodom. Abraham had made his decisions and it had brought fellowship with God – do not covert friendship with the world, or mammon – decide for God.

Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice.

No wonder Saul fell flat on his face upon the Damascus road when the light shone – straight down.

God had chosen Abraham, and he did not hide from Abraham what he was about to do. This gets to the heart of truth, God had not withheld from Man any good thing to be desired to make one wise – God through, In, his Word of commandment had shared eternal life. The Creator had shared with the crown of his creation his very own Son.

Abraham stood still before the Lord, while the two angels headed towards Sodom.

Abraham understood judgement. Abraham knew that the whole world had been judged in Noahs day – swept away.

Abraham finished speaking at ten, and perhaps his once more came short of the 99 and one.

Just as in John Ch 8, from young and old.

All surrounded the house to the last man. Only a Spititual bondage can orchestrate such collective wickedness. But what this shows us is that you can’t tread where angels fear too, humanity is porous to influences and impressions: Have no fellowship with darkness.

Did the all include Lots sons in law? Perhaps in the surrounding sense, but I doubt they could be among those near the door. What we know about them, is that they had no strength of character to discern the times, nor the occasion of this visitation, they were in spiritual bondage despite being about to be married.

Lots magnetic drawing to the lush valleys, had given him leanness in his soul. He had not been able to get anyone excited to respond to the ‘Quick’ of mutual service.

Abraham and Lot where polls apart, and Isaacs obedience to his Father was grounded in the authority Abraham had obtained in character through walking with God. Isaac had excitement, he took Rebecca into Sarahs tent, as laughter is born out of understanding together the delight God had when he came to see what he would name her. God having not withheld his promise of life.

Lots wife looked back, being behind Lot. Perhaps even his lack of haste to flee to the hills caused it. Unlike Sarah who was behind Abraham. The problem with the fall was that Eve passed the rebellion onto Adam, he should have been out front rebuking the lie of that serpent.

God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst. Incredible…it seems that God had respect for Abrahams earlier demonstration of love for his nephew in saving him when taken into captivity. I guess it is possible that from a distance Abraham saw the angels leading Lot and his family out of the City. I don’t think the text implies that Abraham was in doubt concerning Lot. How much more, HOW MUCH MORE SO, is the Father moved to action through the intercession of his beloved Son: For this my Son was dead!

The Moabites & Ammonites became enemies of the children of promise.

The seedline from Ham too. And while Ishmael was with Isaac had their fathers burial, they did not agree about laughter and liberty or mocking of the promises of a covenant keeping God: Unto his image both to serve – not one consigned far behind the veil.

Lot made unleavened bread, the first mention in scripture I believe. A precursor to the Passover deliverance and ordinance.

Lot is not mentioned again.

Accept retrospectively & thank God for that. The Word of God runs with the promises not are faults.

Luke Ch 17 v28-33

Lots daughters were due to get married. Just as in Noahs day. But fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. All those who could not be touched by the call of Abraham, hear the Word of the Lord, all who call upon his name shall be saved. All those gathered around Lots house. All from the young to the old.

2 Peter Ch 2 v4-11.

This world we are informed will not be destroyed by a world wide flood, but by fire. And what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah is an example of that Judgement reserved up prophetically.

Psalm 83

Against you they make a covenant! You cannot sit on the fence, if God is the God of covenant and he is at work in are lives then it is impossible to be against the Jewish people.

Descendants from Ham, Ishmael, Lot.

V14: as fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountain ablaze.

Fill their face with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord.

Every reference to Lot apart from in Deuteronomy has a strong association with the judgement of fire. Oh Thank God King David came from Ruth, a part of the ‘all’ nations God had promised to bless in Genesis Ch 12.

Reading Genesis Ch 17 & 18

God had chosen Abraham and is that not how Paul introduces his letter to the Romans. Like Abraham, Paul had a quickness in his response to the Lord after his encounter with Jesus, immediately getting baptized.

The obedience of faith.

Resurrected from the dead due to the Spirit of Holiness. A blameless walk Jesus had, hence he was resurrected from the dead – and therefore are life stream must come from are head. A Christian cannot tamper with sin, it will burn him for life.

The gospel is the power of God for salvation.

Righteousness, shall not the judge of all the earth do right.

Paul then declares unrighteousness, Paul affirms that the Sunrise Abraham had return too, the same place where he had stood before the Lord – speaks the same truth to every mans conscience.

I have heard it said that the governor of California stoped the forestry industry and stopped the annual clearing of the forest management that would have if maintained made significant difference to the spreading and power of the fire.

If these two factors are true, in light of the current crisis that alone is shown to be an insanity close to the borders of Nero’s mind.

When the simple truths of the Creator and the Creation are suppressed in unrighteousness, a madness comes into the minds of men. Even that regarding what is visible: Male and female is not held to be true.

But a Christian response is an Abrahamic response, mercy and the spearing of life. And compassion for those devastated and in despair.

Prior to God moving in LA during the Azusa street revival I believe there was an earthquake, one which sobered up man to a fallen creation, held in space by the long suffering of God: desiring that no man should eternally perish.

Compassion first and foremost, but sobriety that this earth will be consumed by fire at the end of this age, and that it will be allowed of God, due to the suppression of what is known concerning GOD – made in his image, how can that ever be suppressed without consequences to are ability to think and judge rationally and for the benefit of others.

But after Romans Ch 1, Paul immediately falls again upon his face. Its not political point scoring, its far to serious for mens games and showmanship.