The
Prophet Isaiah prophesied about this glorious City.
He said only the righteous nation Israel, who keeps the Truth, may
enter in. Our minds must be stayed on God, it says, and He
will give strength and peace to those who trust Him.
Isa
2:1-4 1The word that
Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it shall come to pass in
the latter days that the mountain
of the LORD'S house shall be established on
the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills;
and all nations
shall flow to it. 3 Many
people shall come and say, "Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD, to
the house of the God
of Jacob; he
will teach us His ways,
and we shall walk in His paths."
For out of Zion
shall go forth the law,
and the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 He shall judge
between the nations,
and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
CITY
OF REFUGE
In
the Book of Leviticus, we read of the Cities of Refuge and the
Priest’s Cities. The City of Refuge is for those who will take the
proper steps to come out of the Courtyard. Only those baptized
properly, who come up First Fruit can enter the City, New Jerusalem.
The heart of God lies within this City, and all that live there are
the Apple of His Eye. He directs the way from the Courtyard into the
City through the Fivefold Ministers. Rending the veil into the Holy
of Holies as Jesus died on the cross, is symbolic of the veil over
the hearts of God’s people being rent, so that He can come into
their Hearts. We allow our flesh to be rent by saying good-bye to all
we have known and loved through our lives as Adam’s race, dying to
it to be born again. Only after proper baptism can God look on His
Bride. He is holy and Adam is not. We become holy because of His
blood and the gift of repentance, but it is the new creature that
receives God's inspired truth that is the prepared virgin that
becomes His Bride, New Jerusalem.
Side
note:
The
veil must be lifted off the head of the bride at a wedding ceremony
by the groom in order to be seen (An old Hebrew tradition once known
and understood). New Jerusalem cannot be seen until proper baptism.
It was after baptism that God said concerning Jesus "This is My
Beloved Son." It will be after proper baptism that Jesus will
say "This is My Bride, New Jerusalem". Protection and
healing are to be found in New Jerusalem. God wants to restore His
people and through the Prophet Isaiah, He prophesied protection:
Isaiah
66:10-13 10 Rejoice
with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice
for joy with her, all you who mourn for her; 11 That you may feed
and be
satisfied with the consolation of her bosom, that you may
drink deeply and be delighted with the abundance of her
glory.” 12 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I
will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of
the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then you shall feed;
on her sides shallyou be carried, and be dandled on
her knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you;
and you
shall be comforted in Jerusalem
Through
the Apostle John He prophesied healing.
Rev
22:1-2 1 And he showed me a
pure river of water of life, clear
as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Truth from the Fountain Head) 2
In the middle of its street, (New Jerusalem)
and on
either side of the river, was
the tree of life, which bore twelve
fruits, (twelve is the number of Government) each
tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations.
In
my next posting I will discuss Zion, which is symbolic of the
Government with its Head. New Jerusalem is symbolically the Body that
follows the Head. As Jerusalem receives the living waters of truth
from Zion, she releases it on to the nations.
Zech
14:8 8 And in that
day it shall be that living waters shall flow from
Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them
toward the western sea; in both summer and winter it shall occur.
As
these living waters begin to flow from New Jerusalem, look what
happens!
Zechariah
14:9 says 9
" And the Lord shall be King
over all the earth. In that day
it shall be--” The Lord is one,”
and His name one."
He
will become King over the earth
as people see the light of truth! The Mountain’s light of
revelation will eliminate the need for the sun or the moon to
shine in the city.
Revelation
21:23-24 23 The city
had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine
in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light 24
And the nations of those who are saved shall walk
in
its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and
honor into it.
Because
of the false doctrines of man, starting particularly from the period
of the Dark Ages, moldy bread has been fed to the people, preventing
them from entering into the City. Baptism in the Holy Spirit was
lost, and was even taught as being of the devil. Intellect also
totally replaced Truth, and the Apostolic and Prophetic offices were
lost. As you study Scripture you will begin to see that when the
Church had the leadership of the Apostolic and Prophetic Offices,
unity of the Body of Christ was obtained. In the early Church, there
was unity of vision. There was total unity in the Upper Room when the
one hundred twenty Disciples received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
When the Church lost the Apostolic/Prophetic Covering, it lost this
unity of the Body. This is why Satan is fighting so hard to keep the
Five-fold Ministers from understanding who they are and what their
function is. This is why he has pulled out all the stops, and is
doing absolutely everything in his power to stop the Church from once
again receiving the leadership of the Dual Anointed. He knows that
once God’s Government is in place, and the Body of Christ is
finally unified, Satan's reign is over!! Authority will once more
belong to the family of God and His Kingdom will be restored.
WILL
NOT ENTER GOD’S REST
We
enter the City by entering into the rest of God. Resting in the Lord
is retiring from all our own agendas, walking in the blueprint that
He drew before the foundation of the earth, and tapping into the
plans He has to regain His planet for His family, and taking the
necessary steps to be a part of that family.
Hebrews
4:1-3 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering
His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come
short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us
as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not
profit them, not being mixed with faith in
those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that
rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, they
shall not enter My rest,” although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world.
Eccl
1:9-11 That which has
been is what will, that which is
done is what will be
done, and there is nothing
new under the sun. Is there anything
of which it may be said, “See, this is “new?”
It has already been in ancient times [before
the
foundations of the earth] before us.
There is no remembrance of former things nor will
there be
any remembrance of things that are to come
by those who will come after.
Side
Note: There were
things here on this earth before we were created that we have no
knowledge of. Remember, God told Adam and Eve to go re-plenish the
earth. "Those who will come after" shows where ‘the
generation of people yet to be created’ comes into play.
DEAD
ON THE STREETS
Those
found in the courtyard on the day the angels of punishment are sent,
will not be gathered to safety. You are marked for protection as you
enter the City. The Shepherd knows His sheep. Those that will not pay
the price of separating from the world and the Adamic race will not
have white robes, and so will not be allowed entrance to the city of
refuge. Jesus will say - " depart from Me
I never knew
you." The Body of Christ will be raised as seen in Hosea
6:2. The Head will be raised as seen in Revelation 11:11.
Hosea
6:2 2 After two days He will revive us;
on the third day He will raise us up, that
we may live in His sight.
Rev
11:11 11 Now after
the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered
them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on
those who saw them.
Jude
describes those that won't go forward. These are ones that turn their
backs on the truth because they do not wish to change their lives.
Most of the time you will find this group mumbling and complaining
about the people that do make the necessary changes as the truth
shows the need.
Jude
1:12 2 These are
spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving
only themselves. They are clouds without water,
carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without
fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots.
These
are made up of the religious community. They are the modern day
Pharisees. Those who come against God’s people, with their mocking
and scoffing thinking they do God a favor, is sadly the largest part
of the Church today. Why? Because they have no love for the Truth,
and they will be condemned or damned. Jude called them the twice
dead. Paul described those that don't want to hear truth this way:
2
Thessalonians 2:10-12 10 and
with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they
did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. 11 And for this reason God
will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the
lie, 12 that they all
may be condemned who did not believe the truth
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Definition
of Condemned
(Strong’s Concordance 2919) To
judicially decide, to try, decree, judge, damn.
Unfortunately,
many of these twice dead ones are
in leadership positions, and because they don't receive or preach the
whole message, many sheep will remain dead on the streets and never
stand a chance to enter the safety of New Jerusalem.
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