The New Song - Part 3
David's Tabernacle raised up globally IS Jesus' plan for His Bride in the last generation, specifically in the last 7 years leading up to Jesus' return. This will be a unique time of trouble intended to convince the world to repent and agree with God. God desires no one would perish but that all would come into agreement with His leadership and live in His light forever...just what He said was "very good" in Genesis 1:31:
II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
So this is the plan of God: allow a time of trouble in which the dark gets darkest and the light gets brightest, so all will choose what they really want. This is what Jesus clearly described His return looking like. This is the essence of the parable of the wheat and the tares: sin and wickedness will mature (you can see this accelerating right before your eyes) in geographic locations that agree with it, and righteousness (the wheat) will mature (this also is happening right before our eyes) in geographic locations that agree with righteousness. God really honors the choices of geographic locations: Nineveh, Sodom, Egypt... Wherever there is a geographic location that agrees with evil...the absence of God's leadership...judgment IS coming. Wherever there is agreement with God's leadership...even right smack dab in the middle of darkness...God will save and protect those people agreeing with Him.
Exodus 8:22 But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that I am present even in the heart of your land.
Lot had to be taken out of Sodom before the angels could destroy the city. To look back, was to desire some of what Sodom had, this is the same as agreeing with its "fruit" of desiring life apart from God's leadership. If you desire what a place under judgment desires, you will share in its same fate. God ALWAYS honors desire, because He has committed to free will...because He has committed to love. This is the judgment pattern seen throughout the Bible: the righteous separated, the city of refuge established by wholeheartedly agreeing with God, and everyone who desires God's leadership flourishes in a promised land. If you look back (desire what those under judgment desire) you share in their fate:
Genesis 19:15, 17, 20, 22-26 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”...
So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”...
But Lot didn't want to go to the mountains. He selected a different geographic location:
See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there ( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.” ...
The angel agreed and told Lot what is true every time God judges a place "God refuses to let the righteous share in the judgment of the wicked":
Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there...”
...The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Lot's wife regretted leaving wicked Sodom, where her children had been abused, and the people of the city were awfully wicked! She agreed with some part of Sodom, and it cost her. When God offers an escape, He expects wholehearted agreement with it.
Look at the Exodus: the sea split, the pillar of fire, all the plagues that touched Egypt and not Goshen, where Israel dwelled right in the middle! But that generation was not wholehearted in trusting the supernatural God:
Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
This is what God said about this half-hearted generation:
Psalms 95:10-11 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
The global building of the Tabernacle of David...the new song...is Jesus' plan because it REQUIRES wholehearted commitment to God as our strength. The intensity that is coming REQUIRES everyone to choose their strength: man's plan or invisible Jesus. We make God our strength by trusting in Him to save us. This will be expressed by night and day talking to Him through music. Just like David's generation did.
The entire earth will be judged...sifted. God will use the intensity of the events to shake geographic locations until everything that can be shaken has been shaken...this is the seals, trumpets, and bowls. If God is your entire plan, your entire plan will not be shaken!:
Amos 9:9-12 “For I will give the command and will shake Israel along with the other nations (global shaking) as grain is shaken in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost. But all the sinners will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’(requires "being ready" seeing the trouble coming and preparing) “In that day I will restore the fallen house of David. I will repair its damaged walls. From the ruins I will rebuild it and restore its former glory. (This is to provide cities of habitation to protect those agreeing with God's leadership enough to actually spend the time and effort building 24-hour prayer) And Israel will possess what is left of Edom and all the nations I have called to be mine. (This Tabernacle building will be global...Israel and every nation Jesus will own...that IS every nation!)” The Lord has spoken, and he will do these things.
The judgment and the new song go hand in hand, by design, in order to let the earth see the difference .
Isaiah 24:1-3, 13-16 Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared. The earth will be completely emptied and looted.... The Lord has spoken! Throughout the earth the story is the same— only a remnant is left, like the stray olives left on the tree or the few grapes left on the vine after harvest. But all who are left shout and sing for joy (new song!). Those in the west praise the Lord ’s majesty. In eastern lands, give glory to the Lord . In the lands beyond the sea, praise the name of the Lord , the God of Israel. We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth, songs that give glory to the Righteous One! But my heart is heavy with grief. Weep for me, for I wither away. Deceit still prevails, and treachery is everywhere.
The new song is the plan to make a difference that is visible between the wheat and the tares. As the Bride draws together in geographic locations and does the HARD WORK of coming out of the world and committing to night and day prayer, more and more she will agree with Jesus about judging the evil world system she is "coming out of." If she turns back...if she tries to keep one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus' leadership...she will run the huge risk of falling away. The New Song REQUIRES a wholehearted, all-in, commitment, by design. This will sift the wheat...the true grains...it will purify and de-spot the Bride...not by God's external evaluation, but by the Bride's own desire. Everyone gets what they want in the end!
The events are so intense though, that MANY will fall away. The cost of agreeing with God is everything. If you look back...if you approach Him and His desired location of safety any less than wholeheartedly...it will cost you. That is why Jesus warned the 7 churches before the trouble to "overcome."
There WILL BE a great falling away. This means many will quit following Jesus. The Bible has a ton of information about this. This is what Jesus is warning the Churches in Revelation 2 and 3 about: the time of trouble coming, and those who are not ready...who don't prepare in advance...not overcoming the trouble that starts in Chapter 6. All of the issues called out by Jesus are answered fully in the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is the formula for dwelling with others in right relationships, and making God your strength rather than money, earthly status, or comfort. THIS IS WHY the Tabernacle of David...the new song... IS Jesus' plan...because the only way it is sustainable is through wholehearted loyalty to Jesus expressed in obedience as described in the Sermon on the Mount. God WILL have a pure and spotless Bride for His son, and she will get cleaned up in trying to build 24-hour prayer with others loyal to Jesus. It is sharing in His death...a common experience of dying to ourselves... because of our great desire to agree with Him that produces unity...not agreeing about minor points of doctrine.
The new song will undo thousands of years of division, because the only way it is sustainable is by dwelling together in shared commitment to keep the "fire on the altar." THIS is what will unite a Bride growing in love and obedience, all the while seeing a growing faith transform the land they dwell in!
II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
So this is the plan of God: allow a time of trouble in which the dark gets darkest and the light gets brightest, so all will choose what they really want. This is what Jesus clearly described His return looking like. This is the essence of the parable of the wheat and the tares: sin and wickedness will mature (you can see this accelerating right before your eyes) in geographic locations that agree with it, and righteousness (the wheat) will mature (this also is happening right before our eyes) in geographic locations that agree with righteousness. God really honors the choices of geographic locations: Nineveh, Sodom, Egypt... Wherever there is a geographic location that agrees with evil...the absence of God's leadership...judgment IS coming. Wherever there is agreement with God's leadership...even right smack dab in the middle of darkness...God will save and protect those people agreeing with Him.
Exodus 8:22 But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that I am present even in the heart of your land.
Lot had to be taken out of Sodom before the angels could destroy the city. To look back, was to desire some of what Sodom had, this is the same as agreeing with its "fruit" of desiring life apart from God's leadership. If you desire what a place under judgment desires, you will share in its same fate. God ALWAYS honors desire, because He has committed to free will...because He has committed to love. This is the judgment pattern seen throughout the Bible: the righteous separated, the city of refuge established by wholeheartedly agreeing with God, and everyone who desires God's leadership flourishes in a promised land. If you look back (desire what those under judgment desire) you share in their fate:
Genesis 19:15, 17, 20, 22-26 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”...
So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”...
But Lot didn't want to go to the mountains. He selected a different geographic location:
See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there ( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.” ...
The angel agreed and told Lot what is true every time God judges a place "God refuses to let the righteous share in the judgment of the wicked":
Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there...”
...The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Lot's wife regretted leaving wicked Sodom, where her children had been abused, and the people of the city were awfully wicked! She agreed with some part of Sodom, and it cost her. When God offers an escape, He expects wholehearted agreement with it.
Look at the Exodus: the sea split, the pillar of fire, all the plagues that touched Egypt and not Goshen, where Israel dwelled right in the middle! But that generation was not wholehearted in trusting the supernatural God:
Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
This is what God said about this half-hearted generation:
Psalms 95:10-11 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
The global building of the Tabernacle of David...the new song...is Jesus' plan because it REQUIRES wholehearted commitment to God as our strength. The intensity that is coming REQUIRES everyone to choose their strength: man's plan or invisible Jesus. We make God our strength by trusting in Him to save us. This will be expressed by night and day talking to Him through music. Just like David's generation did.
The entire earth will be judged...sifted. God will use the intensity of the events to shake geographic locations until everything that can be shaken has been shaken...this is the seals, trumpets, and bowls. If God is your entire plan, your entire plan will not be shaken!:
Amos 9:9-12 “For I will give the command and will shake Israel along with the other nations (global shaking) as grain is shaken in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost. But all the sinners will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’(requires "being ready" seeing the trouble coming and preparing) “In that day I will restore the fallen house of David. I will repair its damaged walls. From the ruins I will rebuild it and restore its former glory. (This is to provide cities of habitation to protect those agreeing with God's leadership enough to actually spend the time and effort building 24-hour prayer) And Israel will possess what is left of Edom and all the nations I have called to be mine. (This Tabernacle building will be global...Israel and every nation Jesus will own...that IS every nation!)” The Lord has spoken, and he will do these things.
The judgment and the new song go hand in hand, by design, in order to let the earth see the difference .
Isaiah 24:1-3, 13-16 Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared. The earth will be completely emptied and looted.... The Lord has spoken! Throughout the earth the story is the same— only a remnant is left, like the stray olives left on the tree or the few grapes left on the vine after harvest. But all who are left shout and sing for joy (new song!). Those in the west praise the Lord ’s majesty. In eastern lands, give glory to the Lord . In the lands beyond the sea, praise the name of the Lord , the God of Israel. We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth, songs that give glory to the Righteous One! But my heart is heavy with grief. Weep for me, for I wither away. Deceit still prevails, and treachery is everywhere.
The new song is the plan to make a difference that is visible between the wheat and the tares. As the Bride draws together in geographic locations and does the HARD WORK of coming out of the world and committing to night and day prayer, more and more she will agree with Jesus about judging the evil world system she is "coming out of." If she turns back...if she tries to keep one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus' leadership...she will run the huge risk of falling away. The New Song REQUIRES a wholehearted, all-in, commitment, by design. This will sift the wheat...the true grains...it will purify and de-spot the Bride...not by God's external evaluation, but by the Bride's own desire. Everyone gets what they want in the end!
The events are so intense though, that MANY will fall away. The cost of agreeing with God is everything. If you look back...if you approach Him and His desired location of safety any less than wholeheartedly...it will cost you. That is why Jesus warned the 7 churches before the trouble to "overcome."
There WILL BE a great falling away. This means many will quit following Jesus. The Bible has a ton of information about this. This is what Jesus is warning the Churches in Revelation 2 and 3 about: the time of trouble coming, and those who are not ready...who don't prepare in advance...not overcoming the trouble that starts in Chapter 6. All of the issues called out by Jesus are answered fully in the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is the formula for dwelling with others in right relationships, and making God your strength rather than money, earthly status, or comfort. THIS IS WHY the Tabernacle of David...the new song... IS Jesus' plan...because the only way it is sustainable is through wholehearted loyalty to Jesus expressed in obedience as described in the Sermon on the Mount. God WILL have a pure and spotless Bride for His son, and she will get cleaned up in trying to build 24-hour prayer with others loyal to Jesus. It is sharing in His death...a common experience of dying to ourselves... because of our great desire to agree with Him that produces unity...not agreeing about minor points of doctrine.
The new song will undo thousands of years of division, because the only way it is sustainable is by dwelling together in shared commitment to keep the "fire on the altar." THIS is what will unite a Bride growing in love and obedience, all the while seeing a growing faith transform the land they dwell in!
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