"In the night season I was in my dreams in a large meeting with ministers; their wives and children. I wondered that the company present was mostly made up of ministers and their families. The prophecy of Malachi was brought before them in connection with Daniel, Zephaniah, Haggia, and Zechariah. The teaching of these books was carefully investigated. The building of the temple and the temple service were considered. There was close searching of the scriptures in regard to the sacred character of all that appertained to the temple service. Through the prophets, God has given a delineation of what will come to pass in the last days of this earth's history and the Jewish economy is full of instruction for us...All these things were closely investigated by the company before me in my dream. Scripture was compared with scripture and application was made of the word of God to our own time. After a diligent searching of the scriptures, there was a period of silence. A very solemn impression was made upon the people. The deep moving of the Spirit of God was manifest among us." RH Feb 4, 1902
As many of us have heard the the fourth angels call to come out of Babylon, we come out but wonder what now? Just recently it struck me that the call to come out of Babylon mirrors the type of the call from Cyrus, the annointed, to come out of Babylon.....but it was for a purpose! To restore and rebuild Jerusalem! Who is Babylon? Babylon according to Rev 18 is excessively oppressive and abusive, in so much that it is said of Babylon, identified as the Papal religio political system, the blood of all that were slain upon the earth was found in her. So the call to come out of the Babylon of Christianity which has fallen, the unsafe place, where God's presence has left, is also the call to restore and rebuild spiritual Jerusalem where his presence can be! Jerusalem is the city of peace, of safety, for it is the dwelling place of Yah's salvation, his name is Yeshua, which means' Yah's salvation, safety, refuge, deliverance.
As we have learnt already, the heavens will receive Yeshua until the times of the restoration of all things,
Elijah restores all things, and the all things, can only be the things lost, stolen, covered or cast down by the
great apostasy. How much is to be restored? "In the time of the end, every divine institution is to be restored."
Who does the restoration? Zechariah tells of 'my servant, the high priest, Yeshua the BRANCH (Netzer) who shall build the temple of YHWH. Yeshua the Netzer, the Nazarene
will rebuild the temple. The Netzir (Nazarene) rebuilds the temple! It appears that this is the real origin of Yeshua's
title given him by his disciples, Yeshua the Nazarene...not just a reference to his home town but a reference to
him as the prophesied SERVANT, the BRANCH who builds the temple of YHWH.
So what will this restoration of every divine institution look like?
Before the final visitation of Elohim's judgments upon the earth, there will be, among the people of YHWH, such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of Elohim will be poured out upon His children. At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love of this world has supplanted love for Elohim and His Word. Many, both of ministers and people, will gladly accept those great truths which Elohim has caused to be proclaimed at this time, to prepare a people for YHWH's second coming." {FLB 326.2}
This call to come out of Babylon which is the call to rebuild the temple, goes out from the angel who has been in heaven and recieved the light and great authority who lightens the earth with his glory. The light comes from the spirit. For the spirit and the power always go together in scripture. Where the spirit is, there is power and authority. For the angel to have authority, he has received the outpouring of the Holy spirit in the latter rain, the teaching of righteousness according to righteousness, the refreshing. Where has he received it? He has come from heaven! He has been in heaven...what part of heaven we may ask? Well we were directed to rise and measure the temple in heaven, Rev 11:1 and the law of God was seen which was in his most holy place. The fourth angel has been in the most holy place communing with God, in the refiners fire, his law has been written on his heart and he has recieved the outpouring of the Holy spirit.
The light is in the torah. Prov 6:23. The fourth angel movement has received the Laodicean message call to be zealous and repent of the sins that make the bridegroom sick...their wretched, poor, miserable, blind and naked condition and has bought of the gold, the eyesalve and the white raiment, and she the betrothed bride has gone back into her mothers house, (Judiasm) not wanting to be despised, to be instructed. There, as Elijah does, she discovers the truths that have been extinguished in the dark ages, the great apostasy of pagan Christianity. The Fourth angel movements sins have been blotted out in the refreshing and he comes down from heaven with great authority and the earth is lightened with his glory...the character of God, the righteousness of God that fulfills the torah, manifest in his son, given to the angel who lightens the earth with great glory.
This light comes from the army of Israel of 144,000 who have been sealed under the outpouring of the holy spirit. So what is this really all about? In plain English? It is the final restoration of the safe place of God's dwelling place among the community in the hearts of his people.
Through the typology of the deliverance from Egypt, God wants to teach us a most valuable fact. Because God has delivered us from the bondage of slavery of sin, and recognised our rights to freedom that he gave us and be free from slavery, and righteously judged our oppressor, he has the right to be the only God we worship, he has the right to be worshipped exactly as he is, and not be misrepresented in false images, he has the right for his name to be treated respectfully, and he has the right for his day, the sabbath to be remembered and kept holy.
Honour your father and your mother. Parents have the right to be honoured, for the children's benefit. God is our father, and we are to honour him. You shall not steal. All have the right for their property ownership to be respected, God has the right not to be stolen from in tithes and offerings. You shall not commit adultery. Humans have the right to be preserved from sexual immorality and we have the responsibility to not commit adultery or any sexual perversion, towards God or man..for we are in a marriage covenant relationship with God and he is a jealous God. You shall not kill. Killing is defined in the statutes as premeditated murder. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. God and humans have the right to have the truth known and believed about them. You shall not covet anything of your neighbours. Humans have the right to own things without others wanting them and that coveteousness affecting their relationships.
Because God recognised our need for freedom and also protection and providing (all revealed in the deliverance from Egypt to Canaan) we know we are loved, our rights are protected by him, our needs are provided!
Righteousness is a conscious recognition of our own rights as protected by God, extended to others..to love them and recognise their rights as God has loved us and recognised our own rights. For without the recognition of our rights, we are not free, we are in oppression and slavery. But to live in freedom we need law. The law tells us what not to do, or points out sin, but it can't make us do what is right. Only God's righteousness which fulfills the law, fulfilled in his own son, and given to us and lived out in our lives makes us safe people, and when in a covenant relationship with God, makes us a safe community.
These principles were applied to their theocratic government. The presence of YHWH dwelt in their midst and executed righteousness and judgment. There were no gray areas. Sin and righteousness were clearly defined.
When someone became aware of a sin, by the knowledge of the law which had been written at the crossing of the Jordan on large plastered stones, they came to the tabernacle with their sin
and their lamb, confessing and acknowledging it over the head of the lamb, naming it specificially. They then took the knife and killed that little innocent harmless creature who represented God's own son, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Slitting his throat so the blood ran out and was caught in a bowl and the blood was transfered through the sanctuary. There was salvation and forgiveness from sin and guilt through the blood of the lamb. The system of symbols and types in the entire Jewish economy taught the lessons of how God saves and how he restores broken relationships.
Before they came to the alter, they were to rebuke their neighbour if he had sinned against them and offer forgiveness or confess their own sin to the other. The people heard the law of God at the mouth of the priest. The entrance to this safe community was repentance. That was the dooway to the temple. We are the temple of the living God. Repentance is the doorway. ......he that turns his ear from the hearing of the law, even his prayer is an abomination. That's why the call is given to repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repentance was manifest by baptism in the Jordan which represented the crossing into the land of Canaan.
How do we become safe people? How do we enter the safe community? The entrance to the kingdom of heaven was by the baptism of repentance. By the humbling of our hearts in repentance and receiving the annointed one in our hearts, with his own annointing, his spirit of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel, power, the fear of YHWH and quick discernment, (Is 11:1-4) which produces the fruits of the spirit of Gal.
If our conscience isn't seared we will feel guilt and be convicted of sin, righteousness and judgment the work of God's spirit. If we are convicted of sin, we can be most thankful that the Spirit of God has not left us but is doing it's work. We will know that what Yeshua says of us, that we are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked is true. We will not compare ourselves to one another, but will say God have mercy upon me a sinner. We will go to seek to make things right and confess our fault to our neighbour, or we will offer forgiveness to them. If however, we stubbornly refuse to repent, God himself will fight against us, and his anger will be poured out upon those who reject his offer of mercy.
We will confess our sins on the head of the lamb and trust in the blood of the lamb to take away our sin and wash up clean. We will give ourselves a whole sacrifice to Yeshua on the alter, a complete sacrifice, not my will but thine be done. Coming to the place where we can say, "I delight to do your will". The priest eats the sacrifice, of the lamb. We are washed clean in the water to go into the holy places of the temple. In the Holy place we go to the table at the right where we eat of the 2 * 6 stacks of bread, representing the Father and the Son, the bread of life, for man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. We receive the spirit of God from reading and digesting his word and we talk to him at the entrance to the most holy place before the veil. But as the veil has now been lifted and we have been called into a most holy place experience, we have been given entrance into the very presence of God, where our jealous God is a consuming fire. In the refiners fire, as our sins come to our notice, we are called to repent and renounce them and bring them to the lamb, and to receive the covenant promise of the law written on our minds and hearts.
The only safe people will be in the final church triumphant, the great army of the Lord. People who love and live by Gods law, the righteousness manifested in the Messiah living within their hearts. People who say, I delight to do your will Oh my God, yes your torah is within my heart." The place of God's law in our hearts will be fully restored, the glory of God.
The call out of Babylon is the call to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. The call out of oppression, the dwelling place of demons, the place of abuse, to the place of safety. When Nehemiah and Ezra were moved under the power of God to restore God's plan by the decree of Cyrus, God's annointed, they had a battle and a half. They found them building their own homes and giving up on God's work. They found them marrying the heathen around them...Nehemiah told them to break up the marriages with the heathen to serve God according to his law. They made a covenant to keep his law....and a deliberate effort to separate from the heathen. There was a struggle to reestablish the standards and exalt the ways of God over mans way. It took seventy years to rebuild Jerusalem. It took 3 & 1/2 years to rebuild the temple.
The restoration is also the refreshing and the refreshing is the latter rain outpouring of YHWH's ruach haKodesh (holy spirit).
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
"Be glad then, you children of Zion and rejoice in YHWH your Elohim for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer worm, my great army which I sent among you, and you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied and praise the name of YHWH your Elohim, that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be ashamed. And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am YHWH your Elohim, and none else, and my people shall never be ashamed." Joel 2:23-26
This is the rest, wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing, yet they would not hear. Is 28:12
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest;....There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb 4:9-11
What was the rest they entered into in Canaan that they didn't have when they were in the wilderness? They crossed the Jordan on the 10th day of the first month, and were circumcised, and kept the passover on the 14th of the month at even in the plains of Jericho, "and did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn in the selfsame day, and the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more, but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5:10-12
"But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Hebrews 3:17-4:2
What rest did they not have in the wilderness? The continued to keep the seventh day sabbath, but they didn't keep the feasts for the forty years in the wilderness, because they needed to be planting and harvesting in the land of Canaan to celebrate the moed's, the feasts! But the real reason was because they had desired to go back to Egypt, to return to slavery of all things, God swore in his anger, they shall not enter into my rest.
The rest was given in the land of Canaan as they restored the planting and harvesting and feasting, the Jewish economy or calendar, known as the moed's. So we see from the type that the harvests and the feasts are established after the baptism of the latter rain in the crossing of the Jordan and the entrance into the land of Canaan! The harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels. The 4 angels are reaping angels, reaping the harvests, as we see in Revelation 14. Hallelujah! What wonderful light YHWH is giving to shine on our path!
YHWH is calling us to the complete restoration of every divine institution, to be participants with Yeshua the High priest to rebuild the temple and the temple service of the Jewish economy. As Yeshua was the sacrifice and became the High priest, so we too are called to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Elohim, whichi is your reasonable service. We are called out as a holy nation, a royal priesthood, we have been made kings and priests unto Elohim.
"I saw that the third angel is leading out a people and fitting them for translation. They are to be purified through obeying the truth. I saw that a work must be done in your family before God can be well pleased with you. . . . When you are baptized with the third angel's message, the soul-purifying truth for this time will make a separation between you and the world that you have never yet experienced."--Letter 13, 1859, pp. 1, 2. (To "Dear Friends," June 8, 1859.) {5MR 291.1}
"God is now testing and proving His people. Character is being developed. Angels are weighing moral worth, and keeping a faithful record of all the acts of the children of men. Among God's professed people are corrupt hearts; but they will be tested and proved. That God who reads the hearts of everyone, will bring to light hidden things of darkness where they are often least suspected, that stumbling blocks which have hindered the progress of truth may be removed, and God have a clean and holy people to declare His statutes and judgments. {1T 332.3}
"God is now testing and proving His people. Character is being developed. Angels are weighing moral worth, and keeping a faithful record of all the acts of the children of men. Among God's professed people are corrupt hearts; but they will be tested and proved. That God who reads the hearts of everyone, will bring to light hidden things of darkness where they are often least suspected, that stumbling blocks which have hindered the progress of truth may be removed, and God have a clean and holy people to declare His statutes and judgments. {1T 332.3}
"The Pharisees were silenced for the time, but only became more determined in their enmity. They next sought out the disciples of John the Baptist, and tried to set them against the Savior These Pharisees had not accepted the mission of the Baptist. They had pointed in scorn to his abstemious life, his simple habits, his coarse garments, and had declared him a fanatic. Because he denounced their hypocrisy, they had resisted his words, and had tried to stir up the people against him. The Spirit of God had moved upon the hearts of these scorners, convicting them of sin; but they had rejected the counsel of God, and had declared that John was possessed of a devil." {DA 275.5}
If John the Baptist was "declared a fanatic" and "possessed of a devil" by the religious leaders of his day (most were enemies of truth but not all) then why should we expect to be treated any differently by the present day religious leaders? Especially when we consider the following quote.....
" In this fearful time, just before Christ is to come the second time, God's faithful preachers will have to bear a still more pointed testimony than was borne by John the Baptist. A responsible, important work is before them; and those who speak smooth things, God will not acknowledge as his shepherds. A fearful woe is upon them."— Vol. 1, p. 321. {GW92 90.1}
If John the Baptist was "declared a fanatic" and "possessed of a devil" by the religious leaders of his day (most were enemies of truth but not all) then why should we expect to be treated any differently by the present day religious leaders? Especially when we consider the following quote.....
" In this fearful time, just before Christ is to come the second time, God's faithful preachers will have to bear a still more pointed testimony than was borne by John the Baptist. A responsible, important work is before them; and those who speak smooth things, God will not acknowledge as his shepherds. A fearful woe is upon them."— Vol. 1, p. 321. {GW92 90.1}
"In every age there is a new development of truth, a message of God to the people of that generation. The old truths are all essential; new truth is not independent of the old, but an unfolding of it. It is only as the old truths are understood that we can comprehend the new. When Christ desired to open to His disciples the truth of His resurrection, He began "at Moses and all the prophets "and "expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke 24:27. But it is the light which shines in the fresh unfolding of truth that glorifies the old. He who rejects or neglects the new does not really possess the old. For him it loses its vital power and becomes but a lifeless form." {COL 127.4}
"But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make, and thus many will reject the very messages Elohim sends to his people, if these leading brethren do not accept them." {GW92 126.4}
What work will the sabbath repairers also do?
"And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in."
When will this be done?
Acts 3:21 "Whom the heaven must receive (Yeshua) until the times of restitution (restoration) of all things, which Eloah hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began."
Who restores all things?
And Yeshua answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things. (Matthew 17:11)
What is the prophesied work of Elijah before the coming of the great and dreadful day of YHWH?
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day oF THE LORD:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Mal 4:4-6
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