Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there is no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out from heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, God Himself will be with them and be their God, ( Revelation 21:1-3).
And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
‘I will dwell with them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be My people.’
Therefore ‘Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.’, ( 2 Corinthians 15-18).
The first temple was made by men with specified articles according to God’s plan through Moses. All the sacrifices were animals until the Lamb from God came because of God’s great mercy. He was slain from the foundation of the world….for God and man…..and His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The first temple was made with hands of men, following the blueprints from God in heaven to King David and passed down to His son, Solomon…….. There was none like it anywhere to match the unmatched God who gave instructions on how it shoud be built.
The second temple was made by the Son of God. We are being made into the spiritual temple of God- as we abide in Him. We are now set apart in Him for ever and ever, if we believe in Jesus Christ and that all God’s Word shall be fulfilled. How you ask?
By the power of His Word.
God from the Beginning wanted to dwell with man and have preeminence in all man’s life.
In the Beginning God wanted to be acknowledged as a great God, the One True Living God…… In almost every book of the Prophets….. You will read this phrase, if it is relating to judgment or if it is relating to renewal and the plans for the New Testament….
The words are—- Then you shall know that I AM the Lord God Almighty.
I double dog dare you to read through the Books of the Prophets…… Count the times that it is written- then they shall know I AM the Lord God Almighty. Do you think He wanted to make a point?
I walk the beach often and today the storm off the northern coast caused large waves by the gusty winds billowing through.
I walked and heard the sound of many waters in my ears and listened…..
The nations are the sound of the many waters speaking of the Lord God Almighty and His Son, Jesus Christ. Know the Son while there is still day for night is approaching.
This temple of God has infiltrated almost all nations speaking the Testimony of the Son……..This mountain of God made by God’ s will, will never cease growing and His government will always increase…….
This Testimony, the sound of many waters is speaking in every tribe, nation and tongue to all who have been given ears to hear. God keeps increasing in us and increasing through us -for He is God and is unstoppable. He will reach the fullness of His Son on the earth. The more the hardness increases, the more He increases. He always turns all things to good. All things…. Amen and amen. Even the hardness of hearts in men.
He who has the voice of the sound of many waters is His beloved speaking through out of His greatness and love and mercy in every nation and tongue…. and tribe……
From the Beginning, there is always a mention of His great mountain that symbolizes Him, the God Almighty and His Son and His people who worship and believe.
Do not be deceived, He is and was and will always be….. His plan was made visible to us in the First Covenant with His people.
A spiritual temple made of His own who live by His name in every nation standing alone to make Him known throughout the world.
This plan of God has not changed, only increased as the peoples and nations have increased….. He is known and His voice of many waters is being carried by His Spirit in His people who know their God and His Son, Jesus Christ….. These ones call on Abba, Abba as their belief echoes through the years of their love for Him and their need of Him……. The ages of generations carry His Testimony through time…… Right on into the next age.
So who’s temple are you?
We have temples or churches to go to worship as a group….. but there is more to the Second Covenant….. The sacrifice was made once and for all….. for us….. But, we also are made a living sacrifice as Roman 12 states. We live His Testimony as a voice of one crying in the wilderness to alert all to the Voice they should and can hear if they turn to Him.
The blood shed for you and me belongs to the King of all kings….. Do you not see?….. The remissions of sin is only by the shedding of blood. And let us double take on whose blood was shed for us? The sinless spotless Lamb of God and Lion of God.
His voice is and was and always will be, for He is the Word of God inside His believers….. That is His temple- you and me…. if we have His Spirit, Holy Spirit living within……
Whose temple are you?
Daniel spoke in chapter 9:20, Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God.
Interesting how Daniel spoke of the holy mountain of my God……..God’s plan was and is and always will be.
In Matthew 25:1, I noticed something that perked my ears up: Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom…….
There were five wise who kept the oil in their lamps and five foolish who took no oil in their lamps…..
Verse 6, speaks: And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet Him. Then all the virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out…… But the wise answered, saying no, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.
Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord open to us!
But he answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.
HALT RIGHT THERE !!
That is the sentence that stunned me….. All of them knew Him, didn’t they? But without His Spirit or oil, He did not recognize them…….. Whose temple are you? The put off the needful thing- Him and listening to His Spirit.
Now the other thing to meditate on is this……
Daniel 12:10-12: Many shall be purified made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed is he who waits and comes to the one thousand and three hundred and thirty five days.
So if the Lord is the Sacrifice of all sacrifices, and His believers make their lives a living sacrifice unto God……. And if the temple was in Jerusalem ……. but now, His temple is within us, as we are being built into a spiritual temple for One True Living God.. as written in Ephesians chapter 2:19-22:
Now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in who, you are also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
What does this mean…….?
As written 1 Corinthians 6:15-20: Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not.
Or do you no know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ‘ the two’, He says, ‘ shall become one flesh’. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which is God’s.
Now as I mentioned in previous blogs, if we are friends with the world we are also in enmity with God as written in James….. If we are one with the world and just give words to God but no heart…… We are also partaking of the harlot….
How do we know? Does Jesus Christ know you? Is there fellowship with Him? Is there abiding in His Word? Is there a seeking heart for Him and His Voice…… Are you known as a troubler of the lost? Disturbing them in their lost state. Bringing the Truth of Jesus Christ to their minds? Awakening what was dead to life by bringing His presence of Light to darkness?
Most all, we shall always know that when we call Him, He always answers….. Maybe the answer is not what we want but He answers. He is faithful and strong to lean into and rely on……. Sometimes, I think He chuckles at us, and all the times we call on His name for help……Circumstances He allows, so we may see our great need for our One True Living God, the Lord God Almighty……. Be the ones that He knows now.
For it is written, then they shall know I AM the Lord God Almighty….. And we answer, Lord God, You who dwell in the heavens have also desired to live in us and be with us…….. You are our delight and comfort. We are Your temple….. A place to lay Your head and be desired above all. Even above all Your gifts, without Your voice speaking to us……Nothing competes in this life with hearing Your gentle Voice in the stillness of the chaos of the storms.
The most important thing in our life, is to know our God and His Son…….And for Him to know His house is ours. We are His beloved and He is ours.
Do not be deceived- He is a God of His Word and does not lie as man…… You cannot prove a lie, but you can prove the liars. God does not lie as man….. He is faithful and there will be not a Word that is not fulfilled spoken by Him. All else shall perish but His Word will stand. That is written in the Bible- go find it if you do not know this.
Certainly we are not living in the time of Judges, right? Where every man did what was right in his own eyes? Certainly, we have learned the fear of the Lord……. If we have not, I can guarantee, we will.
As I was walking by the big immense ocean today kicking up its heels as it was consuming the beach, I thought this is just an ocean and people feared for the beach was empty……..Is not our God a consuming fire? He should be given honor and glory as we rise in the morning and thanking Him for His great faithfulness before we shut our eyes at night, right? What about in between as I ask Him to make sure and show Himself strong on my behalf……. Don’t you see me looking towards You to show up and show off.?…. Let Your enemies see Your greatness. Let them see Your Love remove the scales from their eyes and heart, My Lord.
This is how we see the fulfillment of Habakkuk 2:14: For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
This precious Holy Spirit of glory resting in our earthen vessels, gathering together in every nation, tribe and tongue to His glory. Each one of us gathering in our knowledge of experience of the height and depth, the width and length of His great love. Know Him!
Guess what if you do not, He loves you so much, He will create circumstance where we have to look up?
Some follow others to an extent that is sort of whacky……… Why follow mere men? The ones you follow or persecute….. Do you know them better then Jesus Christ?……. Change your focus while it is dusk and you can…..Let Him, the King of glory, be your focus.
Father, You are a great, great Father and God. We love You and thank You for all our breath and sorrows and smiles. We thank You that we are alive to breath Yah in and Weh out….. You are our breath and life…..Thank You for Your protection over us and those who serve to protect others in the land. Thank You for Your justice in the heart of men and government. I thank You that they will always step up and do what is right in Your eyes, by faith we ask their eyes be open to You this day.
Keep us close by circumstance and trials and blessings, for in all, we need You. For in You is our life, strength and sustenance.
Thank You for Your Word that we abide in us as we are being perfected in Jesus Christ, our hidden place….. Each circumstance that comes our way is strategically set for us to know and live by You completely…. Each day is a gift My Father, and we thank You for it is another day of breathing the knowledge of you within us as we grow greatly into the Tree of Life that produces such good fruit of and by My King.
Thank You and we love You. Hear our heart song of love toward You in our secret place in our King and the melody touch the hearts that You have called.
Amen!
Selah!
Children,
Do you see the sun in full shining? No, you see the effects of the sun. Do you see sin? No, you may be seeing the effects of sin in this world or even in your own life…… Do you see life? Not in itself, but you see the effects of life…. In the life of a newborn or a flower or a smile from a stranger….. You may see Me in their eyes. Yet, you may see another that effects you to send a prayer My way.
I have given men the power to choose life or death….. If You choose Me, You will live life in Me abundantly….. If you choose life without Me, death will reign…… It is not My will that any should perish but you do have that choice. You may choose to live life as you see right….. My question to you is….. what if your neighbor does his or her life in Me? Is that wrong or right? Do you have the right to try to stop their choice? Do you not know they are apart of Me? What you do to My brethren- you are doing to Me.
Act in wisdom. For your choice of death and not life in Me, will come knocking at your door. Then who will be your advocate?
See the bloody path of My death for you to have life in Me. See I AM not in the tomb. Death could not stop God from rising for My own…… I AM alive and want to be alive in You. Raise you from the dead is My plan! My scars are for your healing….. There are My followers who bring My healing to others. Seek and ask, I AM shall lead you to My children…… If any are of need of healing- ask…… I AM always exalt the humble and debase the proud.
Come to Me, while the sun is setting, for many abominations are rising to fall in this day…..
Know the season and as My little stone has spoken keep your white boots on as you keep to the path of the snow…. Learn of My great love. Nothing too high or too deep can interfere with My love towards you….. Nothing from east to the west and all the lengths of the universe of galaxies will separate Me nor take My beloved from My hand.
Trust Me.
Fear not and believe in Me……
I AM forever and will never let you go….. As We may go from a door through to another…. I AM there. See My smile and take hold of My outstretched hand….. Know the grip is forever…… My Word abides forever within My own……Growing and increasing. As My Word is in you, you become My voice………Whatever is in your heart flows from your mouth…… Hear My Voice through the many waters. Hear My children speak My heart.
Whose temple are you? Do you listen? Do you speak? Meet Me in the silence of the night or the brightness of the day. I AM here and ready to become all in your being.
As was before to My enemies, will be again and again tomorrow. Know Me and know the Truth that sets you free….. I AM the Son of God. See, who I AM has freed is free indeed. Rest your selves in I AM and be refreshed for the journey is long and though I AM tarries…. In a breath, I AM.
Selah!! Selah!!
