TAKE ANOTHER LOOK
Yah always seems to hide spiritual truths in the Bible. They are like a precious pearl hidden in a field. It is His way to weed out the complacent, satisfied believer from those who are truly hungry and those who desire to know His secret knowledge. Those who hunger and thirst after the things of Yah will be filled, but “to whom much is given much is required”. In other words, Yah does not waste His time in giving you His treasures of knowledge if He sees that you will not walk in the light as He shines it into your heart.
It is not enough to know a spiritual truth, but you are required to assimilate it, taking it into the depths of your being where it becomes your very life source. The followers of the Lord became indignant when YahShua told them that they must eat His body and drink His blood. This was cannibalism and gross sin. However, He is the Word of Yah and what Yah says to us is "meat indeed and drink indeed". When I took health in school the teacher was always saying, “You are what you eat from your head to your feet.” This is a fact of life both in the natural physical and the spiritual realm.
The written Word of Yah is an enigma inside an enigma inside an enigma, one truth hidden in another truth and more truths hidden in that. I call them type and shadows of spiritual reality. Take Israel’s year as ascribed in the Bible with their Feasts and their religious agenda. It is in effect an accrete calendar of the year or mankind upon the earth and that is Yah's plan for the progress of man from Adam to the new year or new beginning of spiritual existence in His Kingdom and in immortality. And, it is a picture of the reality of what Yah planed from the beginning.
Scenes on Earth
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.”
In the book of Revelation YahShua showed John the seven church ages. Each church age was found in spiritual decline except for the church of Philadelphia, which was the reformation church age, and it was soon overcome by lethargy and fell into Laodicea. Laodicea was the last church age before it evolved into the Harlot Babylon Religious System. It was the very lethargy itself that allowed the rise of the beasts. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies, Christmas, Easter, etc.”
Scenes in Heaven
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the Spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”
You will notice that John says he was called up into a higher realm in the Spirit. According to chapter one he was already in the Spirit but here he is “caught up”. What is the difference between being in the Spirit and in being “caught up” in the Spirit? You can be in the Spirit in the earth realm and see visions of things on earth as Daniel and many other prophets did. But it takes being “caught up” to heaven to see heavenly things. Notice the vision has changed from that of the earthly, church age, to that of the heavenly, throne room. In the first few chapters we see churches on earth and in the fourth chapter we see scenes in heaven.
I want you to notice the first few words of chapter four, which say, “After this”. After what? After the church age closes! What are the words that follow? A door was open in heaven. This door was not opened to Yah’s people until after the church age closed and the Holy Spirit began to catch us up into a higher realm of the Spirit.
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
The church age closes at the end of chapter three with the above statement. Then He leaves us with the final word that He had spoken to each church age. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Yah found Himself locked out of the visible church where man ruled instead of His Spirit and He comes to the people and knocks on their heart's door. His plea is for them to hear His voice, revelation knowledge, and open the door, of their hearts, and He will sup with them. He that overcomes the lethargy gets a great reward, access to heaven.
John represents those who have heard the Lord’s plea and opened the door. Then he looked and saw, “…A door was opened in heaven.” You can not look into heaven or see spiritual things while locked away in the religious church realm. You must come out of her and sup with Him.
The Trumpet
The next thing that happens is the voice of the Lord speaking to him as the sound of a trumpet. Trumpets had many uses, to call soldiers to battle, as a trumpet of warning and to announce the beginning of a festive occasion. I fully believe this trumpet that is presently sounding is to inform of what Yah is doing in our day and to announce the next Feast of Yah. Until you have left the confusion of Babylon’s religion you will not hear the message, for the voice of the Lord is drowned out by all the religious voices shouting their message in your ear. A message from the Lord is as a trumpet call. Clear and distinct to those who have an ear to hear, but it has an uncertain sound to the ears tuned to religious clamor. The trumpets have been sounding for many years now. A message is going forth from the throne of Yah and it is one that is never heard in the church age.
The message of the trumpet was to call a people out of the earth realm of the church age into the very heavens for the purpose of showing them the things that lay ahead.
Yah’s people as a whole have celebrated the Feast of Passover by partaking of the cross of Messiyah. They have celebrated the Feast of Pentecost by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. But, the third and final feast that Yah required of all Israel to attend was The Feast of Tabernacles. All spiritual Israel now is also required to come to this feast. However, as in the parable where a certain man made a feast and sent out invitations to everyone. But, only a few came because the others were too busy with the cares of the world.
The Feast of Trumpets precedes the Feast of Tabernacles. Trumpets were blown every day for ten days. Yes, revelation knowledge into the deep things of Yah and insight into His plan for mankind have been flowing from the throne since shortly after physical Israel was given a homeland. Trumpets were a time to prepare for spiritual things by the affliction, disciplining, of the soul. It is a time to discover the true inner man and purify him before the Lord for the feasts that lay ahead. This was done in what was called the Feast of Booths, Tabernacles, which commenced with the great Day of Atonement. The final celebration was the Feast of Ingathering, harvest.
Booths
“Upon this rock I will build My church.” Yahshua said of Peter’s revelation given to him by Yah, who revealed who YahShua was. Men have taken this passage of scripture and in their carnal understanding have set about to build their own church. So the whole world is full of church buildings from grand cathedrals to humble small arbors. Was this what YahShua was saying? Solomon built the most elaborate Temple ever constructed to fulfill his father David's dream and when it was finished he looked upon it's splendor and bemoaned. “But will Yah indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?” He knew that which he had built was nothing, but he was a wise man. Today wisdom has escaped the man with a religious mind so he thinks he can build a place for Yah.
“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? says the Lord. Or where will My resting place be?”
“Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of My rest?”
So, we see no church system or manmade structure is the true Temple of the Lord. That is just carnal man’s idea of what Yah wants and it has become an abomination, a counterfeit to take our eyes off the true Temple and His Temple now lies in ruin.
What is the true Temple? Yah says He will build His own Temple for truly only He can build one fit for His presence to dwell in. “It is I who will build you a house and establish it, but from your offspring will come a son who will build my house”.
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Yah by YahShua Messiyah.”
We are the true Temple of the Lord. It is in His people that He makes His abode. He has fulfilled His promise to David. Through YahShua Messiyah, a descendant of David through the flesh, He has built Himself a dwelling place not made with hands eternal in the Heavens. “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of Yah, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
“But Messiyah being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this, flesh, building.”
In the Feast of Booths, Tabernacles, the people would leave their ceiled houses and go out under the open heaven and build a booth to live in for the duration of the Feast. It was made of all natural materials. On the first day of the Feast of Booths there was a palm waving ceremony, a wave offering unto the Lord. These palms were then used to build the booth in which they were to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Today when we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles we come out of our denominations and churches and go out to meet the bridegroom in the wilderness where we dwell in a holy habitation under an open heaven. This is where you will find the true church today. They are celebrating Booths out in the wilderness where they are alone with Yah being purged and cleansed from man’s ways and learning Yah’s ways. And, here we will remain until it is time to enter into the Most Holy Place of His Shekina glory. This was called the Day of Atonement.
Back in Old Testament times this was when the people received atonement for sins for the coming year. In our time, being already atoned for by the blood of the Lamb, the Day of Atonement for us is the finished work of the cross manifest in the sons of Yah, mortal putting on immortality, corruptible putting on incorruption.
Atonement
On the Day of Atonement the high priest took the blood of the sacrifice and went from the Holy Place into the Most Holy Place. He did not go in joyfully but in fear and trembling, for he was to be in the very presence of the living Shekina of the Yah of Israel. If he would go in without his heart prepared he would be slain by the very brilliance of Yah’s holiness. So during booths, he spent his time searching his heart. Only the blood that he carried in a holy vessel stood between him and certain annihilation. Tradition says that a rope of fine twined linen was tied around his waist so that if he was slain his body could be extracted from that Holy Place without danger to others. If the bells and ornaments on the hem of the Old Testament priest's robe could be heard he was safe.
YahShua was the fulfillment of the Melchisedec priesthood lineage and we are in Him and He in us. In our time a people, high priests forever after the order of Melchisedec, have stood before the rent curtain that separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place and looked upon the Holy Ark of His presence.
Only the blood of the Lamb of Yah and the veil over our eyes has kept us from being consumed in the fire of glory that emanates from His presence. “Our Yah is a consuming fire.” Fire burns nearly everything and that which it can not burn it transforms into a changed substance, as metal in the vat. The only thing that fire can not destroy is fire itself. Like substance can not destroy itself. The Flesh and blood earthly body would be consumed if we tried to enter the Most Holy Place as we are. There must come a metamorphous change in our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body. YahShua has been made the forerunner and who is for us entered into that within the veil.
”Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of Yah; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
Therefore before we can enter into the Promise Land of spiritual existence we must be changed by taking on the very substance of what Yah is. This takes a process of being changed in the vat of the Holy Spirit where that which is mortal and can be changed into that which is immortal and only becomes purer and purer. I like to think of this as maturing spiritually where we are no longer carnal in our thinking but spiritual. When YahShua walked on the earth He referred to Himself as the Son of man who is IN heaven. In His earth body He was a 'spiritual' man who was 'in' heaven. It is in this place that we began to understand the things of Yah, to look upon things as He looks upon them. Suddenly, we find that we can develop a pure relationship with our Heavenly Father. We are no longer in the earth realm but in HIS. It is at the place that we are made fit to enter beyond the veil without fear for we are like substance with him.
We have become spirit and will be manifest to the world. Just as the High Priest did not remain in the Most Holy Place, neither shall we. The High Priest of Israel would come out to show himself to the people as confirmation that Yah accepted them through the sacrifice they offered. This will be so with the sons of Yah as well. Yah will send forth his sons to set in order that which man has messed up since the fall back in the Garden.
Ingathering Jubilee
This will not be a reoccurring event, but as Passover and Pentecost it will be the beginning of an ongoing experience for Yah’s people. Many will partake of the blessings of the sons of Yah; even nature itself will be free from death and decay as immortality is held out to a dying world. The finished work of the cross will find fulfillment in the sons Yah is about to manifest and death will literally be swallowed up in life and the grave will have no more victory. This will be the Jubilee, the release of all debts, and the returning of all inheritance to its rightful heirs. “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of Yah, mature sons: And if children, then heirs; heirs of Yah, and joint-heirs with Messiyah…”
Many have heard the voice of the Lord calling them out of the religious church system and, upon obedience to that voice, they are leaving their church homes to live in a house not made with hands in the wilderness of man’s world. This is Tabernacles. There is found here an open heaven and a time of tearing down and building up, tearing down man’s doctrine and theology and the building up of the truths of Yah’s kingdom. The offering up of yourself and its ego to the will of your Father in heaven is the acceptable offering spoken of in Romans. This is what I call the cross life. Being crucified with the Lord and partaking of His death that we might gain His kind of resurrection. That He might take our old Adam life and crucify it so that the life of the Spirit within is released in the manifestation of the sons of Yah. All of creation is in travail for it and we groan within ourselves for it to be manifest. Come and join us in the next mighty move of Yah and partake of the blessings of the sons of Yah.
I am always available to answer the questions of a hungry heart. It is Yah's will that we help one another up the hill to transfiguration. However, keep in mind that it is not revelation knowledge that we should seek, but "HIM". Spiritual understand will automatically come as we become more aware of "HIM" and become more like "HIM". Many fall short of full sonship by becoming too caught up in the revelation, and not caught up "IN HIM". "HE" must have preeminence in our life even in our getting of revelation knowledge. I can not stress this enough.
Shalom!
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