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In the hour that is upon us, God will do more than in the book of Exodus...more than is in the book of Acts. For good and for judgment.
Micah 7:13Yet the land shall be desolate
Because of those who dwell in it,
And for the fruit of their deeds.
14Shepherd Your people with Your staff,
The flock of Your heritage,
Who dwell solitarily in a woodland,
In the midst of Carmel;
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
As in days of old.
15“As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them wonders.”
16The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
Choosing the weakness of absolute loyalty to Jesus is the only way to truly be strong in this hour. All man-based strength will be judged...
...the strength of logic, the strength of wealth, the strength of assembly and protest, the strength of reputation and marketing, the strength of cunning, and the power of the sword....all these will be judged in this hour...
John 18:36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”
The church is being attacked from within...shepherded into choosing the ways of the world, rather than contending for a kingdom from another world...choosing failing strength, even as the hour for true strength approaches.
Jeremiah 10:15They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
16The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
The LORD of hosts is His name.
17Gather up your wares from the land,
O inhabitant of the fortress!
18For thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will throw out at this time
The inhabitants of the land,
And will distress them,
That they may find it so.”
19Woe is me for my hurt!
My wound is severe.
But I say, “Truly this is an infirmity,
And I must bear it.”
20My tent is plundered,
And all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me,
And they are no more.
There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.
21For the shepherds have become dull-hearted,
And have not sought the LORD;
Therefore they shall not prosper,
And all their flocks shall be scattered.
22Behold, the noise of the report has come,
And a great commotion out of the north country,
To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.
23O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself;
It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
This is delusion. Impatience is being sold to the church, and in many places she is sliding into the failing power of the world. Godless corporations and partnerships are looked to for council, and broken systems looked to for strength. Worship is seen as weak entertainment, and assembly with the anger and rage of the world is seen as might.
Woe to those who labor in vain to build the city. Yes, they desire to build the city and to strengthen the people, but they labor in vain. There is a vain labor that is not of the Lord, though the desire sounds the same.
Habbakuk 2:12“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts
That the peoples labor to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?
14For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
As the waters cover the sea.
We are in the last moments for truly choosing worship as our strength and plan...coming out from those who want to mix worship with worldly wisdom. That mixture is an abomination, and we are in the hour it will cause desolation:
Matthew 25:25But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
Now is the hour for sanctification... To be set apart in loyalty to truth. This is where glory will rest:
John 17:14“I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
16“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
18“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19“And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;
21“that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22“And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
23“I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Look around. Are you being gathered into the world by your shepherds, or are you being strengthened to stand in set-apart absolute loyalty to Jesus? Only one will stand. The mixture...Babylon...will fall. Though the harlot dresses like a Bride and acts like a Bride, her lack of loyalty to one man makes her a harlot. The harlot church will promise the world the same things that the Bride will do...but she will not find her strength in her commitment to the author of life...she will find her strength in the assembly of peoples. This is Babylon:
Genesis 11:1Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The harlot church will take what God has given and mix it in her own strength...brick for stone, asphalt for mortar...faith with vain labor...light and pure with dark and sinister:
2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
15And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
Ephesians 5:7Therefore do not be partakers with them.
8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
10finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
12For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
It is essential to come out of the world...it is the only way you can, in truth, lead the world out of darkness:
Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
5“For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6“Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
Revelation 19:6And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
7“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.”
8And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
Micah 7:13Yet the land shall be desolate
Because of those who dwell in it,
And for the fruit of their deeds.
14Shepherd Your people with Your staff,
The flock of Your heritage,
Who dwell solitarily in a woodland,
In the midst of Carmel;
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
As in days of old.
15“As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them wonders.”
16The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
Choosing the weakness of absolute loyalty to Jesus is the only way to truly be strong in this hour. All man-based strength will be judged...
...the strength of logic, the strength of wealth, the strength of assembly and protest, the strength of reputation and marketing, the strength of cunning, and the power of the sword....all these will be judged in this hour...
John 18:36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”
The church is being attacked from within...shepherded into choosing the ways of the world, rather than contending for a kingdom from another world...choosing failing strength, even as the hour for true strength approaches.
Jeremiah 10:15They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
16The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
The LORD of hosts is His name.
17Gather up your wares from the land,
O inhabitant of the fortress!
18For thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will throw out at this time
The inhabitants of the land,
And will distress them,
That they may find it so.”
19Woe is me for my hurt!
My wound is severe.
But I say, “Truly this is an infirmity,
And I must bear it.”
20My tent is plundered,
And all my cords are broken;
My children have gone from me,
And they are no more.
There is no one to pitch my tent anymore,
Or set up my curtains.
21For the shepherds have become dull-hearted,
And have not sought the LORD;
Therefore they shall not prosper,
And all their flocks shall be scattered.
22Behold, the noise of the report has come,
And a great commotion out of the north country,
To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.
23O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself;
It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
This is delusion. Impatience is being sold to the church, and in many places she is sliding into the failing power of the world. Godless corporations and partnerships are looked to for council, and broken systems looked to for strength. Worship is seen as weak entertainment, and assembly with the anger and rage of the world is seen as might.
Woe to those who labor in vain to build the city. Yes, they desire to build the city and to strengthen the people, but they labor in vain. There is a vain labor that is not of the Lord, though the desire sounds the same.
Habbakuk 2:12“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts
That the peoples labor to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?
14For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
As the waters cover the sea.
We are in the last moments for truly choosing worship as our strength and plan...coming out from those who want to mix worship with worldly wisdom. That mixture is an abomination, and we are in the hour it will cause desolation:
Matthew 25:25But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
Now is the hour for sanctification... To be set apart in loyalty to truth. This is where glory will rest:
John 17:14“I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
16“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
18“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19“And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;
21“that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22“And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
23“I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Look around. Are you being gathered into the world by your shepherds, or are you being strengthened to stand in set-apart absolute loyalty to Jesus? Only one will stand. The mixture...Babylon...will fall. Though the harlot dresses like a Bride and acts like a Bride, her lack of loyalty to one man makes her a harlot. The harlot church will promise the world the same things that the Bride will do...but she will not find her strength in her commitment to the author of life...she will find her strength in the assembly of peoples. This is Babylon:
Genesis 11:1Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
The harlot church will take what God has given and mix it in her own strength...brick for stone, asphalt for mortar...faith with vain labor...light and pure with dark and sinister:
2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
15And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
Ephesians 5:7Therefore do not be partakers with them.
8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
10finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
12For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
It is essential to come out of the world...it is the only way you can, in truth, lead the world out of darkness:
Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
5“For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6“Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
Revelation 19:6And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
7“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.”
8And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
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