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Yeshua said
that the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force. This word violent means zeal. The analogy is of those who storm the gates
of the Kingdom demanding to enter in. Not
casually walking by hoping to be let in, but a violence taking them over that
refuses to relent until the door is opened.
He was saying that it has been like this thus far at the time of John
the Baptist. We can clearly see that presently in the 20th century this is not the case. If anything an apathy and indifference, as
well as a rebellious spirit amongst many, have overtaken not just the world,
but the church.
For a while now Father has placed on my heart the word “zeal”. Synonyms best describes the word. Words like:
·
crusader,
· fanatic,
·
ideologue
·
militant,
·
partisan
·
red hot,
·
true believer
The word zealot comes from 1st century A.D., a fanatical sect arose in Judaea to oppose the Roman domination of Palestine. Known as the Zealots, they fought their most famous battle at the great fortress of Masada, where 1 000 defenders took their own lives just as the Romans were about to storm the fort. This sounds very much like the cults of today. Over the years, zealot came to mean anyone who is passionately devoted to a cause. The adjective zealous may describe someone who’s merely dedicated and energetic. But zealot also points to be fanatical and zealotry are used disapprovingly, even while Jews everywhere still honor the memory of those who died at Masada.
Let’s face
it. Zealous people are found at the
heart of cults. People will die for
their cause they believe in and all the more dangerous when they believe that
cause to be God.
I think it
is safe to say that Paul, having killed so many Christians in the name of God, was
indeed a zealot. What is important is to ask ourselves what differentiates the zealotry
of the true saints and those in cults?
The answer lies within the spirit that drives the zeal. For one can truly believe that what you are
doing are right and in all sincerity believe that you are doing it for Him, all
the while being unaware of the spirit that is the driving force behind it. Very often amongst Christians who are
deceived one can hear the right thing be said, but the fruit do not mirror the
words. We can sincerely proclaim that we
are nothing, but even do this in pride.
We can say we are wholly devoted and sincerely mean it, but still cling
to this world. There are many examples. This is why Yeshua said that we will know them
by their fruit and James came to our aid and gave us a list to go by:
JAMES 3: 14 - 18
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your
hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This
wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For
where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But
the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy
to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy.
18 And
the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
You will
note that two wisdoms are compared with each other in this scripture. I find that this very two wisdoms are
presently found in the church and many, like Saul at the time, find themselves
zealous for God but in the wrong wisdom, the wrong spirit.
And yet it was to Saul that Yeshua asked, “Why are you persecuting Me?” Can you think the devastation of Paul when
thinking all along he was zealous for the Most High, he was in fact persecuting
Him?
The same can
be said of the zeal of Peter in the garden.
Malchus, one of the centurions, who arrested Yeshua met with Peter’s sword
and his ear was cut off. Zealously
defending his Master, whilst all the while in the wrong spirit. Who could fault Peter? Who could say that it was wrong for him to
want to protect the one he loved the most.
And yet Yeshua said, “He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword.” Peter was driven by zeal, but that zeal was
driven by the wisdom of this world. And
so Yeshua, in the wisdom that is from above, bent down and touched Malchus’
ear, and healed the ear. How many ears
have we chopped off in our zeal for the Lord, but in the wrong spirit? How many of those in our households,
churches, families and friends, have suffered severed ears because they just
did not get it and refused to listen to truth as we know it? Not to mention the unbelievers who have
experienced such venom and bitterness by zealous Christians standing up for the
Lord God.
Zeal has to
be governed and controlled by the Spirit of God and in the fear of God.
Another man
who was known for his zeal was Apollos and he was one of Paul’s friends. They respected Apollos so much that there was
division in the Corinthian church as to whom they follow, whether Paul or
Apollos. To the point that Apollos went
away, and Paul had to address the church saying that the foundation is Yeshua
and there are those who build on this foundation, but all our works will be
tested with fire. Apollos was known for
his zeal.
I was led to
read Ezra 5 to 9 as well as Nehemiah.
Both are about the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
Chapter 5 starts with mentioning all the prophets that were involved with the rebuilding of the walls. Consider the fact that these prophets were the oracles of God. This is no trivial thing. For as the oracles of God, they were to be His mouthpiece. One of the functions, and a very important one, of the office of Prophet is to make the heart of God known. His intention. This is why we find that the prophets were often smote with an intense burden for the Lord. Prophets wear their emotions on their sleeves and Jeremiah described it best when he said,
JEREMIAH 23: 9
"Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, BECAUSE OF THE LORD, and BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF HIS HOLINESS"
In fact Jeremiah was asked “What is the
burden of the Lord?” They did not just
deliver a message, but they became the message.
They first had to endure that which they spoke. They had to enter into the reality of God and
His intentions, so that when they spoke they were not just relaying a message,
but the spirit behind the message. These
were men of great zeal as they all trembled at the word of God.
These
prophets came together and were determined to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls. They were challenged governors and their companions as to whom gave them the authority to do so. These governors then went back to King Darius saying that these prophets are claiming they work for the God of heaven and earth
and it is on His authority that they are doing this. I have noted that it is always about rebuilding
Jerusalem. The reason is simple. Our King will reign from that city. Short of the long, Darius
tells them to look up the decrees of king Cyrus concerning rebuilding Jerusalem
and what was said. And so they were
given full authority and the backing of provision and protection, as well as
help when they confirmed that the documents indeed did endorse Jerusalem to be
rebuilt. Afterwards they were to carry
in the vessels of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar kept in Babylon, which they did. Then life went on. Priests, Levites and elders were assigned
to their posts and duties, and not long after that a report came to Ezra that the
priests and Levites had intermarried with other nations within the camp.
Ezra hears
of the transgressions of the priests and Levites and reacts the following way.
EZRA 9: 2 - 10
2 For
they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that
the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the
hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
3 And
when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the
hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
4 Then
were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of
Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I
sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
5 And
at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my
garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto
the Lord my God,
6 And
said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for
our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto
the heavens.
7 Since
the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for
our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the
hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and
to confusion of face, as it is this day.
8 And
now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God,
to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that
our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 For
we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath
extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a
reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations
thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 And
now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy
commandments.
I must be
honest. All I could think of was the
fact that he pulled out his hair and beard.
Who does that? Such was his
tormented heart that he expressed this in such a way that something had to
give. Something had to express his utter
heartache and torment regarding this abomination. They have compromised, they have allowed
their hearts to be won over by other lovers and have forsaken the Lord’s
commandments. They have defiled the camp. They were in rebellion and
more than that, they were priests and prophets set apart to Him. When we are struck with bad news, our whole being will give utternace to it. In some form we need to express that which our hearts are bursting with, whether in a sudden heart wrenching scream, strong tears and shouting...or in the case of Ezra, literally pulling out his hair and beard. This was too much for Ezra. It may have been a custom to go to such
extremes, but upon reading this one can see that this man was absolutely
broken.
Nehemiah,
the book after Ezra, is also about rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. This was Nehemiah’s reaction to the news of
the state of the walls of Jerusalem…
NEHEMIAH 1: 3 - 7
3 And
they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the
province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is
broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
4 And
it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and
mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
5 And
said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible
God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his
commandments:
6 Let
thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the
prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the
children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of
Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have
sinned.
7 We
have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor
the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
What are
these broken down walls and burned gates?
Symbolically walls are boundaries.
They are there to keep in and to keep out. For protection and for guidance as to our
limitations. If we do not have
boundaries, we do not know when we move out of our jurisdiction. We become a law unto ourselves and in essence
start to rebel, even without knowing it at first. Boundaries are not there to be moved at free
will. Certain boundaries are set in
stone and not be treated as shifting sand.
They are spiritual principals that is governing over us, which all are
to uphold. You walk outside this
boundary, you will suffer the consequences.
The same is true about gates. The
gates in the Old Testament times were the places of authority. Here the elders met and important decisions
were made.
RUTH 4: 1
Then went
Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there:
and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by…
We also read
in Proverbs of both the foolish woman and another woman, called Wisdom that cries out to us at the
gates. They too are seated there
governing what comes in or out.
The gates is
the place of decision making, which would be our mind. But, we make decisions over different
things. What we see, hear and
speak. What we do, feel and not do. Here the gates are either opened or closed by
either the foolish woman or Wisdom. And
here we are to choose wisely, because whatever enters through those gates will
either be for our benefit or destruction.
What we watch, speak, hear or do, does matter a great deal to Him. Some of us have an eye gate burned up, another
an ear or mouth gate. This is a lot more
serious, because this is given to us to understand that the reaction of the
prophets to these broken down walls and burned down gates, is the Lord God’s reaction. It breaks His heart just like it broke the
heart of His prophets. Because what we
allow into our hearts through these gates because of our undisciplined
lifestyle and foolish decisions, starts to break down the walls from the
inside. Yes indeed, we have found the
enemy and it is “I”. We ourselves become
our own worst enemy as we as porters at these gates by our own decisions allow the
enemy to come in through these gates. Of
course it never is big. Something is
called a vice or addiction, rather than rebellion or an idol. A wrong attitude here, laziness there, foul
language and gossip, prayerlessness, not reading scripture or spending intimate
time with Him. Or watching want we
want. “After all, they only said His
name once”, we say when watching movie.
A sex scene here and there. And
well, we still love Him. But all the
while His heart is breaking, just like His prophets over the broken down walls
and burned gates of His Jerusalem. The zeal of God for His house can be described in many ways, but I am taking a chance and call it holiness. The
zeal that He has for His house consumes Him and without us knowing it we gradually
return to our vomit as a swine and that which is unholy has been sacrificed on the
altar of our hearts, our Jerusalem is found to be an abomination of
desolation. The peverse replacing the
holy. And as priests and Levites we have
allowed the gates of our Jerusalem to be stormed with violence and the violent
took it by force, all the while we opened the gate to them.
PROVERBS 25:28
He that hath
no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without
walls.
In Hebrews 3 the writer reminds us that the
builder of our house is greater than Moses.
HEBREWS 3: 4 - 6
4 For every house is
builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was
faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which
were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son
over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
In the same
way that Moses was told to be very particular with the blueprint given as to
just how the tabernacle was to be built, so Solomon who built the greater and
more glorious temple with the same requirement.
Exactly as the Lord God wanted.
This exact building was for our purpose to understand that our God does
not cut the corners. He does not let
things slip by for the sake of making nice.
Yes, He is our Father, but when it comes to building house He is very
precise. He is the Master Builder and His Son, the Corner Stone that the builders rejected. So, He found new builders...us. The word says that He gives His
Spirit to those who obey Him. Ezra was
told by King Darius that after the building of the walls, he could bring in all
the vessels of gold and treasures. This
points to the glory of the Lord as well as to the gifts of the Spirit. The same is true of Moses and Solomon, for
when they completed it exactly as told, the glory of the Lord filled the
tabernacle and temple. We are the temple
of God and our God requires the exact building of our walls and gates. For He only gives His Spirit to those who
obey. This serves as a pattern for us to understand that His glory fills those temples prepared. Holy and set apart. If you build it, He will come.
2 CHRONICLES 5: 1 – 2; 13 - 14
1Thus
all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was
finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had
dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among
the treasures of the house of God.
2 Then
Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the
ark of the covenant of the Lord out
of the city of David, which is Zion.
13 It
came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of musick, and praised the Lord,
saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house
was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
14 So
that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the
glory of the Lord had
filled the house of God.
Let us
understand that in the latter days He will pour out His Spirit on His sons and
daughters, but these are those who have prepared the Jerusalem of their hearts
and have ensured that their walls are not broken down by an undisciplined and
rebellious life. These are those who
have set guard up at their gates and have renewed their minds not only by not
being conformed to this world, the wisdom of this world, but by meditating on
His word day and night. Chosen vessels,
yes! But prepared vessels who walk in
the statutes of God, keeping covenant.
These are they that have not fornicated with this world, virginal and
pure, set apart onto the Most High. And
they will be filled with the zeal of the Lord, just like the Prophets of old,
with hearts broken over the foundation, walls and gates of Jerusalem. They will cry out to Him and walk in the
wisdom from above, overcoming the enemy not by the wisdom that is earthly and
devilish, but by the holiness of God and overcome the world by the blood of the
Lamb, even their faith. This is why Psalm
24 asks us, “Who can ascend into the hill of the Lord and who can stand in His
holy place? He who has clean hands and a
pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn
deceitfully. Then it goes on to say…THESE
ARE THEY that will receive the blessing of the Lord and the righteousness of
the God of their salvation. And then,
the glory comes. Those who are
prepared. Those who have looked after their
walls and gates, they hear the words…
Lift up your
head, ye gates, and ye everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come
in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle!
Oh where is
our zeal for the house of the Lord! Where
is our zeal for our brothers and sisters, those living stones that became
rolling stones? Why are we not vexed in
the Spirit? Where are the Ezra’s and
Nehemiah’s that cry out to God over the walls of Jerusalem? Why does the heart of our King not beat in
us? Why are we not zealously pursuing
His Kingdom? Why are we not violent and
taking His Kingdom by force? Where is
our zeal for His Kingdom? What right do
we have to His Kingdom when we are not even broken over the lost? Broken over our sisters and brothers that
lives with broken down walls and burned gates?
Not zeal about what is taken from us from this world, for we are not of
this world. Narrow is the gate and few
be there that go therein. And yet we
take this casually as if we can take a lazy stroll through the Kingdom gates,
with broken down walls and gates ablaze with fire. Where is our zeal for the holiness of God! The
first thing I thought concerning the rebuilding, is the zeal with which they
built the house of the Lord. How much
more should we have zeal to build the house of the Lord, seeing that we are
building with living stones? We are the builders of the New Jerusalem
that will come down from heaven, together with Him. His
bride that will rule and reign with Him from that very hill called Zion. Are we then not the prophets, the priests, the
workers with Paul who called himself a master builder, and with God? Yes we are.
Are we not ourselves the living stones built up in Him? And I look at these men, these holy men and
the question I ask is…what is wrong with us?
What is the difference between us and them? Zeal.
And I think of what the writer of Hebrews says in chapter 12 of how we
do not possess the earthly, but the heavenly.
We do not come to Mount Sinai, but to Mount Zion, the heavenly Mount
Zion and to the cloud of witnesses and innumerable angels. We come to the throne of grace and we are to
heed the words of the One speaking to us from heaven, because our God is a
consuming fire. And I think, “What is
going on with us?” Where is the zeal of
the church? Where is the zeal of the Bride?
We also need to understand that the natural manifests the spiritual. Wars and rumors of wars will continue and increase. Wars in nations, cities and homes. And what will be seen are broken down walls and burned down gates. Fire and more fire. When we read Psalm 69, we are to understand that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. He was broken over our walls long before the "V" came and people who never stood up before for their rights, stood up fighting for the right of their body, and those who are to lament and cry out to Him over the spiritual body, the walls and gates, voices were drowned under the mighty roar of protests. However, His eyes are upon the righteous and His ears are open unto their cry. Unfortunately people are not zealous over the house of the Lord, but zealous over their rights and body. This is not to say that we are to be quiet and not speak up when He leads, but there has been a gross imbalance as to the Zeal of the Lord for His house, for His House shall be called a House of Prayer. They have forsaken the Lord their God, even though thinking that they are zealous for Him. Knowing not what spirit they are of, they think they are doing His work. But the walls remain broken whether you have taken their solution or not. It is to our shame when we are more vexed by what man can do to us, than falling in to the hands of the God who is a consuming fire, who mourns over our broken walls and before whom we will soon stand.
In Psalm 69
we read of David’s zeal for the house of the Lord, mirroring the Spirit’s zeal
in him, which was the very same Spirit of zeal in Yeshua. When reading this Psalm you in fact do not
hear David, but the man after God’s own heart, as David was known, having the
heart of the King of Israel beating in Him.
Remember the account of Yeshua in the temple and with what vigor, anger and zeal He braided a whip and overturned their tables? This psalm is the psalm the disciples
remembered when He did this. What is
more important is to grasp the zeal, the agony, anger and complete brokenness
over His temple. Yes, the physical temple
of Jerusalem that will be destroyed and be rebuilt again, but the temple He now
dwells in. Our own Jerusalem, which is
to say, our heart’s walls are broken down.
He mourns these walls daily as He says to us, “Your walls are
continually before Me”. He cannot forget
it. A few years ago, I had a prayer
wall where all the names of the people I prayed for were written on, with
scriptures and words Father gave me. One
day He said to me, “Your wall is continually before Me.” That wall had the names of stones He wishes
to build into His wall of His Kingdom.
Where are the intercessors crying out to God for the rolling stones,
those stones who used to be fitted into His wall? Where are those who will not give up on their
loved ones? Who will storm the gates of
heaven, and as the widow with the judge, not relent until He opens? For a Kingdom is not a castle, but the people
within makes the Kingdom. He sees it
every day, every moment and He longs for those builders of the breach, those
restorers of paths to dwell in, to come and rebuild Jerusalem’s walls. Where are those who will raise up the
foundations of many generations? Where
are His builders? Why are you not broken
as He is? Where are those who will
intercede, fast and seek His face for His Jerusalem? Where are those who will fear Him and know
that their own walls cannot have a breach?
I pray you hear the broken heart of God.
PSALM 69
1 Save me, O
God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2 I
sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me.
3 I am
weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They
that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that
would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored
that which I took not away.
5 O
God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Let
not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my
sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because
for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I am
become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9 For
the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that
reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10 When
I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I
made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They
that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But
as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God,
in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
14 Deliver
me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that
hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let
not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not
the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear
me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies.
17 And
hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw
nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 Thou
hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are
all before thee.
20 Reproach
hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take
pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They
gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let
their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for
their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let
their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to
shake.
24 Pour
out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let
their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they
persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom
thou hast wounded.
27 Add
iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 Let
them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the
righteous.
29 But
I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I
will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
31 This
also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath
horns and hoofs.
32 The
humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For
the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let
the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moveth therein.
35 For
God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell
there, and have it in possession.
36 The
seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall
dwell therein.
If we
believe there to be a great revival due to all the persecution, as many will
start to cry out to Him during this time, we have to remember that no revival
in history, including the word of God, came without seeking the Lord God in
earnest repentance and fasting. Not
one. Rather, all revivals were proceeded by strong crying and desperately hungry and thirsty souls for The Most High to intervene and save. It was not for a day, it was not for an hour, but until. The Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. Zeal for the House of God has to be restored. Zeal for the House of God to be a House of Prayer. Our God is a God that draws near to
the humble and broken hearted like a magnet.
He saves such that be of a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart,
penitent over sin, will He not despise.
If ever there was a time to seek Him for our own broken walls and burned
gates, as well as for the lukewarm and lost, it is now. Just think of how much time we spend in these
days on the internet, having become “prophecy hunters”, and sometimes even days
or longer go by without our hearts breaking with His? Our repenting and intercession cannot be a
casual disposition, but it is truly a time for the Ezras and Nehemiahs to rent
their hearts before the God who made heaven and earth…for we and our house have
broken covenant. We do not pray as we ought, because we do not have His burden. We need to desire His burden to be on us, that we allow the Spirit of Intercession to take over this temple, and cry out to Him. He is seeking those sons and daughters, just like David, who are priests after His own heart.
MERCY
SEAT
(Received
on September 2020)
As the light, so the darkness. Ever increasing. Shall those who are the light not mourn those
who are in the dark? Shall those who
were once darkness not bring to remembrance the mercy extended, not
deserved? Will you not draw near to Me
in a time that I may still be found? Has
Abraham not pleaded with Me for Sodom and Gomorrah?
Yet My church do not mourn for those who will see My
wrath. As they have tasted Me and found
Me to be good, the unjust, the rebellious and wicked, will taste My wrath. Is this the Priesthood I have called that
feasts at My table and bathe in the light of My glory, but do not enter to stay
at My mercy seat? My mercy seat provided
to cry out to Me for those who are left outside?
For it is My day! My
great and terrible day!
Yet My Bride, My Priests do not see. Having eyes, they do not see. Having ears, they do not hear what the Spirit
is saying.
The Spirit is saying…
Seek Me whilst I may still be found. I stand at the door and knock. Do not be rebellious. Do not go in for your own sake only, but cry
out to Me My Children. Cry out to Me
whilst I am still to be found.
For where would you have been if it was not for your High Priest? As the priests, so the people. Will you go in and cry for the lost and
broken? Will you come into where I have
made a way, not only for your salvation, but for you as priests of God to cry
out for the lost?
Do you not see the hour?
I have set My own clock. Indeed
the world has hers, but I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.
I determine the times and seasons. Will you not recognize the hour and season? Therefore, cry aloud My Priests! Cry aloud, for the veil has been torn and I
desire you to draw near in My Son. He
ever intercedes, should you not?
Come My children, seek My face and draw near to Me with a
humble and contrite heart. For who knows
whether I will not indeed show mercy to those who do not deserve it, as I have
shown you.
Draw near to the mercy seat.
