Preached on July 7, 2022 – pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a scripture here that I do not have written down, but it is a part of what I will be going into, The Millennium Reign. This will be part one. I was deciding whether to title this series “The Millennium Reign” or “The Millennial Temple,” which I will also be talking about in this message. I want to go to Revelation 21 for a little bit here. In looking at this we see the first verse and verses three through eight speak of after the Millennium and the final judgment going into the Eternal Age. It speaks of their tears, and all, being passed away.

 

After the tribulation is over and before the Millennium begins, the foolish virgins, Jews, and the great multitude are raised. Of course, the first part of the first resurrection was when the twelve tribes and all the Old Testament saints were resurrected. We find Abraham and all of those before and after him down through time, until the man that was crucified with Jesus. (Jesus told him: ‘To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.’) They all could look forward to a resurrection at that time. We know that Jesus went to the part of hell called paradise, then He brought those saints with Him after His resurrection. No one could be raised from the dead unto eternal life until after Jesus was raised from the dead. There were people that were raised from the dead to live a normal, natural life but then they would die again. But whenever Jesus came forth out of the grave, then all those righteous Old Testament people came with Him. We cannot say, ‘just a few of them.’ They all arose, but some appeared in Jerusalem. Those would be the ones that people who were living there at that time had known. That would not mean everyone appeared in Jerusalem, only the ones that knew somebody and appeared to somebody. The people living then would not have been personally acquainted with those old testament prophets and saints and would not recognize them unless God showed them who they were.

The Lamb’s Wife

The second verse mentions the Bride, then picks up again in verse nine. From the ninth verse on it speaks of the Bride and the Jews. This is not all Bride; this is also the Jewish people. You see it there as you look at the twelve gates which represent the different tribes of Israel. We see the city; we see the city walls. I have scriptures here that I am going to be using. In the ninth verse, “And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the Bride, the Lamb’s wife.” Now he cannot show you something that is not already there, but it is not there at this time. But you take Revelation 19, we find the Bride is taken up, because she goes to the marriage supper. That is at the beginning of the week. Now he is looking at Bride people here in the ninth verse. Let me read that again, “…there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues,” (of course this is a vial angel. No doubt it is the last vial angel, because that would be representative of the time of the last one.) “And talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the Bride, the Lamb’s wife.” He cannot show him something that is not there. But this was a future tense that he was looking at, because at this time in AD 96 there would have been very few Bride people. From AD 53 and on, under Paul’s ministry, you have the Gentile Bride people. You might ask, “Why do you say that?” It is according to Paul’s writings. Before that, we find Peter and those, they said that they would go to the Jews and Paul and Barnabas would go to the Gentiles. There was a separation at that time. That is why Jesus tells the twelve disciples when they asked Him, “What shall we have?” He said, “In the regeneration ye shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel.” ‘The regeneration’ is the Millennium, the regeneration of the earth. We find as Peter, James, and others said that they would go to the Jews. We know that in the last part of Peter’s ministry, he was among the Gentile people. But he is still going to be ruling in Israel, not around the world. Bro. Jackson made that very plain. He said, you will be ruling where you came from. He went ahead to say the different races will rule over different races. I know some probably would not like that, but that is what Bro. Jackson said, and I believe it to be true.

A Pure City

Continuing with the Bride people in verse ten, “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city,” (He is taking him to an elevation where he is looking down. He is on this great high mountain and what he is seeing is the outline of the city. We know the city is not a natural city; it is a spiritual ‘place’, from which the Bride of Jesus Christ is going to be ruling on earth. But she will be ruling around the world, from where she has come from. From every nation there has been Bride people through time. In most countries, not so many now, as there would have been in the past. I know Bro. Jackson said one time, people probably would not like it, but he said there probably would not be any Chinese of our time that would be Bride people. But if there is one out there, I am not speaking against an individual. But he was speaking as a whole.) “…the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.” He is looking at something that is purified, that no earthly thing can purify. That is why the blood of Jesus Christ is applied, because it was without sin. To make us to be a part of the family of God by the blood of Jesus Christ. Consider where Paul talks about Jesus in the third and fourth chapters of Hebrews, He calls us brethren. Whenever we are born again of the Spirit of God, when the blood has been applied in our being, then Jesus said, you are of my flesh and of my bones. We become a part of Him, just like Eve was a part of Adam. That is why I talked about that in the fifth chapter of Ephesians, where Paul said, we are of His flesh and of His bones. It is deeper than what we look at sometimes. The deepness is that we take the blood of Jesus Christ when it becomes part of our life, then we become a part of Him. He said, if you don’t drink my blood and eat my flesh, you have no part in me. That was His death, burial, and resurrection because it was all provided for life. Later in this message I will be going into Hebrews and talking about what Paul talked about as being our life that we live for Christ. Verse eleven again, “Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.” It is God’s light shining through us. This will be completed after our resurrection. That is why it is important now that we begin to dedicate ourselves wholly, completely unto God in our natural being. We must do that to be Bride people. We just cannot live, and I am not saying that you are, but we cannot live just slipshod or careless and think that we are going to experience being arrayed in fine linen as he is talking about in Revelation 19, as being Bride people. As it says in Ephesians, without spot, blemish or any wrinkle. The whole thing is provided. Of our own selves we have nothing in the world that we can provide for our salvation. We have nothing. What does it say? It is a gift of God. It is something given to us that we do not work for. You did not work on your conviction. It was something God did. One day He looked down and saw it was time. He knew you when you were in the world. He knew you were a part of Him, but you still were in the world because you had not had that experience of the blood being applied. But it was there waiting for you. We never sought Him, He sought us.

Protectors of The City

Verse twelve, “And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:” These are all Old Testament saints that make up the gates to the wall. That is who they are, the twelve tribes of Israel. Because this is something that God did through Abraham, all the way down through the prophets, preparing for there to be, one day, a Bride.  Paul goes ahead in Galatians and says, the Law was our schoolmaster, to bring us to Christ. It was to show us our wrongs. It was the commandments. The commandments did not free people from sin, the commandments pointed their sins out. They had to put them on their doorposts. They had to put the Passover blood there and then they had to put the commandments on the doorposts to remind them when they came in and when they went out. But we do not have to do that. It is in our hearts; it is a written message from God unto us. We have a written message, as it says in Revelation chapter two, we have a white stone with a new name written that was given to us that no man knew except we that received it. “…at the gates were twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:” This is surrounding (people may not like it, but I am going to say it anyway) this is the surrounding of the Bride. The Bride is that inner core. We will read it here. Verse 13, “On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.” This has been the protector of the truth coming down through the Old Testament. When Jesus raised from the dead and those saints that were raised with Him, these are people that were protectors of truth. It was not just anyone, it had to be somebody that protected the truth during that time. “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations,” (This is the twelve apostles. The foundation is still Jewish people. We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. We are built upon that. It is a very beautiful picture, it really is). “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.”

The City Covers
the Whole Earth

Verse 16, “And the city lieth foursquare,” (That is Bride people. Do not think that I am lessening the apostles’ positions. They have their part in ruling during the Millennium. They will rule the twelve tribes of Israel, from there it will go around the world. The Law and the word of the Lord will come forth from Jerusalem. And the city lieth foursquare…) “and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.” This represents that this city covers the whole earth. This is not a building or buildings, but it is lives that have been ‘built’. The scripture teaches us that we will rule and reign. It also says that we will be as the angels. I am not saying you will not see Peter and them, but people think they are going to sit down with Peter for a thousand years. That is not going to happen. The Bride people are going to be in their places that God has provided for them to be to rule and reign. We are not going to sit down with Jesus at that time because His presence is going to be as though He is there with us wherever we are, there will not be any difference. So, this gives the layout of the city. “And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.” He is telling you that it is big enough. Of course, there are John Hagge and others who say it is going to come down and sit on the earth. Some fifteen-hundred-mile cube is what they estimate it to be. They do not know what they are talking about. I am not smart, but I have heard some things. I have had some good teaching and I believe what I have heard. One of these days we will experience what we have heard. We do not have to change things. It is not to change things, it is to live up to those things that we have heard, and to be a part of it. We are a part of a people that have gone on before us. They did not die in vain. Bro. Branham did not die in vain. Bro. Jackson did not die in vain. They fulfilled the ministry that God gave them. I cannot say that Bro. Branham could ever have been able to see what Bro. Jackson saw, and I would not say that Bro. Jackson could have been able to see exactly what we see, because they lived in their time. I am not talking about being smart. This Bible is not about being smart. This book is so simple that even a first grader could understand it. I am talking about a spiritual person, a thirty-fold can understand what we are talking about. They may not be able to explain it. I know people have come to me and said, ‘I cannot remember it’, but somewhere it is in your memory. You do not lose it, it is there. The Bible teaches us, if you ever must go before anybody, do not premeditate what you will say, because the Holy Ghost will tell you what you need to know. The Holy Ghost is smarter than any man.

 

Verse 17, “And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.” You are getting to the inner part because the gold part is what the Bride of Jesus Christ has been able to live up to and understand here on this earth. Because it says the gold is as pure glass. I want to read that 18^th verse again. “The building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.” Gold has color to it, but this gold has no color to it, because it is our lives. We are not trying to hide something in our lives, we are trying to live to where there will be no stain or anything of that nature in our lives. “And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.” I will not go over them because this is talking about the apostles. Let me go on down to the 21^st verse. “And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.” We are ‘going to be on golden streets, we are going to be riding our carriages and going everywhere because we are going to be on golden streets.’ No, they are like clear glass. That is what the Bride will be when she leaves here. There are not going to be any slip ups, God is not going to slip up and put something in there that does not belong. God is long suffering, He is, not willing that any of us should perish. I do not want to make this message as something that you can do your own self, except that we can guard our lives. That is why in the sixth chapter of Ephesians we find the guard that God puts on us from head to foot. The whole armor is there for us. The only thing is, we must put it on like we do our clothes in the morning before we go out.  The Bible says to put on Christ. Verse 22, “And I saw no temple therein: (Why did he not see a temple in that city? Because the temple is in us. We have the temple inside of us. This building I am talking about is going to be earth wide. All those reeds, furlongs, and everything that it is talking about, is about God reaching throughout the earth. Because throughout time there have been people that have been Bride people around this earth. It has gone from nation to nation, to nation. You can see India now raising up to be like China. They have all those people, now they are showing their muscle. Biden is feeding them, feeding them with our tax money, them and China. As the old saying goes, they are eating our lunch. It may be literal before it is over with. “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.” We are not looking for something that is visible. It is something that lives. I am talking about life here, that is what I am talking about. “And the city had no need of the sun, (It is never dark there. The Bride will never be in darkness. When are you going to sleep? You will not need to sleep; you are going to be on guard. Whenever I talk about this, I do not want to talk about something that is going to be boresome. We go on vacation and things like that to refresh ourselves, that is all right. Young people especially get bored. But this is exciting. The most real thing you can think of will not match it. I want you to understand that. This is the place to go to. You are not going to take an airplane. There will not be any strikes at the airport terminals like there are right now. You can go to the airport and be there for hours the way it is now because of the cancellations. That is not going to be a problem then. The only ones that will need airplanes are the natural people. They will still need a means of travel, but you will not need that. I hope I can present something real to you to make you want to go. To make it to where you want to live to go. It is not just something to look forward to, it is something now that is inside of us that is drawing us in that direction. Life is more than living here on this earth. This is a time of preparation for a better place. The city had no need of the sun…) neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Thank God.) Verse 24, And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: (the light of God,) and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.” Of course, the kings of the earth will be managed by the Bride. There are not going to be any people upon this earth that is going to be above the Bride. But I am not talking about Israel, because there are the twelve apostles. I recall sometimes the dream that Bro. David North had about Bro. Meadors. In the dream he came to Bro. Meadors and reached to hug him, and he did not feel anything. As if his arms went through him. This is how it is for them right now. They are in heaven, and they are real, but they are not to be touched because they are spirit beings. But whenever he goes to him again, then he hugs him and there he is. That is the way it will be after the resurrection and rapture when this life is over. It is going to be real. When the Bride leaves here, she will be more real than she is right now. We are looking for a real occurrence that is soon to happen. I believe that. I do not want to put a far-fetched picture out here to make you feel that you cannot reach it. It is more real than us sitting here now. God is more real than what we are. His Word is more true than what we could ever speak. Jesus said, let your yeas be yea, and your nays be nay. Paul said let your yeas be yea and Amen. There is no nay in Jesus Christ, it is all yea. “And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.”

The Inner City Is The Bride

Verse 25, “And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: (He keeps mentioning the gates of “it”. That is the city. The twelve patriarchs are the gates, the twelve tribes of Israel, they are the gates. This is where the truth entered in Israel. It did not happen in Louisville, Kentucky. I would hope not. There is such filth in these cities. The killings, there were seven people killed in Illinois during a 4^th of July celebration. There were fifty-seven people shot and seven killed in downtown Chicago, yet you do not hear anything about it. They think, ‘What is the difference? What does it matter?’ A life is a life, but they do not think about that anymore because they have gotten used to it. You and I need, when we wake up in the morning, before we even leave our bed, we need to remember Who woke us up that morning. Most of us need an alarm clock to wake us up, but God is right there. He did not leave us during the night. He is right there all the time. The gates of it (the city) shall not be shut at all by day…) for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.” As we go along in this, we are going to see the Bride’s rule. Representatives of each nation will have to go to Jerusalem once a year. I am talking about natural people. The Bride people are going to be in constant contact with ‘Headquarters.’ Our headquarters will be Jesus Christ. Think about it, think about how you feel now when you feel the spirit of God, think about how you are going to feel when you feel it all the time. But even now, whenever we feel low, He said I will never leave you and never forsake you. It is a great and precious promise. “And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” That identifies it. Inside that city, as I have been talking about it tonight, inside that city, who is there? It is the Bride of Jesus Christ, what it says here in this last verse. There shall be in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life:  Bride people. That is the inner circle of the city. You have the walls, and you have the gates. These have been our protectors through the centuries of time: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all.

The Spiritual River

We will go on into the 22^nd chapter. “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, (…water of life. You see advertisements of cases where people drank contaminated water for years and they wind up with cancer or some other kind of disease, but this here is pure water. They have pure water filters, but it is not this. This is purer than anything else. When we leave this earth, we are going to where everything is pure. There will be nothing to defile us there or make anything to be wrong.) proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” This is a replica, or maybe I should say Ezekiel 47 is a replica of Revelation 22. Where the water comes out from the right side of the forefront of the temple, which faces eastward. In other words, the water comes out from the northern side of the eastern entrance of the temple. Pure water that will go down to the Dead Sea to revive it. He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nation.” You read in Ezekiel 47 of a natural river for the natural people at that time. This in Revelation 22 is the spiritual, this is the purity.

We Are His Sanctuary

Now I want to go to the 8^th chapter of Hebrews. Verse 1, “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.” We are talking about a high priest sitting on the right of the throne of the Majesty on high. “A minister of the sanctuary, (This is not the sanctuary that the Millennial reign will be in. This is not Jerusalem. The sanctuary is what He works on inside of us. We are a part of that sanctuary, we are the building of God, we are the temple of God, that God dwells in, that He works in, that He works through. Each member of that body is represented in this. There is no schism in the body. You cannot rub even a thin piece of paper between any of it. I am talking about spiritual people. We are getting ready for something to happen. A minister of the sanctuary…) and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” He is not talking about the one that Moses pitched. He is not talking about the one that Solomon built. He is talking about something greater. Whenever Moses and those made the first tabernacle (and you will see this in this message) God said, see that you build it according to the pattern that you saw in the holy mount. Whenever they did that, when they finished that, what happened? God’s presence came down. When we begin to realize our walk with God, our standing with God, then there is nothing that can prevent God from coming down and being in our midst. People want to see these little bottles of oil that Bro. Jackson dreamed about, but it will only come to those that are ready. But Brothers and Sisters whenever that comes, there is no sin, no doubt, no disease that can stand between you and God. “For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.” He is talking about Christ. When they offered their gifts and their sacrifices, everything according to the Law, then the spirit of God came down upon them. You will see that will happen again in that Millennial temple. But right now, as I read Revelation chapter eight, when the seventh seal is opened there is silence in heaven for the space of half an hour. Then God begins to work in His Bride. There is nothing that will hold that back. I want God’s presence to be here in reality. I want it to be real in each heart and life, because it is available for everyone that desires it.

Patterned After
The Son of God

Verse four, “For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, (He talking about a temple they had that was patterned after the heavenlies, patterned after the lives of the people of God.) as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, (This is important. For, see, saith he…) that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.” That is an important verse for us to see, that our lives are to be patterned after the Son of God. “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (He is talking about all twelve tribes; a house of Israel and a house of Judah.) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and will write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: (You cannot teach that. It must be experienced. That is what these preachers do, they have a prayer written down, or memorized, that they go through to try to get somebody to the Lord. This is what they pray every time, and everybody holds up their hands and agrees with them every time. Why do they? Haven’t they already experienced it? What are they waiting on? I know Bro. Branham said that when he met the Lord (I think he was eighteen years old), he was so under conviction that he went out in a little shed and knelt down and began to pray and said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how to pray, all I want to do is talk to you.’ That was the way he always prayed. Let us talk to Him while we pray. That is what you are doing, you are having a conversation with Jesus Christ, and He is hearing you. Bro. Branham said, whenever I did that, then something came over me. He came back to the house crying. His dad told him, ‘son, you cannot live like this.’ He said to his dad, ‘then I will go somewhere where I can.’ He put his clothes in a paper bag and went to New Albany. That is what he dreamed about in the beginning. There are people I am looking at right now that have had to go through hardships in their families. I know a little bit about some of the things that happened before they came to the Lord. They were threatened. But you know, the devil has to find out you are stronger than he is. Our strength is in the Lord. We are not depending on ourselves to fight against the devil. God has given us armor to do so. And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord…) for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” Putting them behind, their sins, their iniquities, I will remember no more. God is forgetful when it comes to that. If you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, then you have accepted the blood of His offering. Then you can experience what He told you for it is yours. “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” I could read some more but I will leave it at that. Prayer

July 10, 2022
AM Service

I am on this message that I just started Thursday night. It may last a little while. I want to deal with it the best I know how, to give enlightenment to all the people that hear it. To me, it is important. I know there is a whole lot in it and there will be more reading than I would like, but it must be made a part of the message. When I began to look at this subject, I realized there is more to it than what I even knew. There were some things I did not understand concerning Ezekiel and the prince that he talks about. I knew the prince had to be more than just a man, but it is not Jesus Christ. I know some think the prince is Jesus Christ, but it is not. He does come from a Jewish element, and I will get into that element of people that he comes from.

 

Jesus himself was a fulfilling of the Law. When He fulfilled it, He took the part of both being High Priest and one day He will be King. I was asked the question this morning, ‘How was Jesus a Jew, or part of the David line of people?’ The thing about it is, it was a promise made unto the Jewish nation through Abraham and his seed (singular). Paul mentions it in Galatians. He said, not seeds, as of many, but of one seed, which was Christ. It goes all the way back to the two trees in the midst of the garden of Eden where sin came in.

The Book of Answers

I will say this, after the thousand years are expired, plus a short length of time for Satan to have his army to come forth and compass the camp of Jerusalem, to try to take over. God wipes out his army with fire from heaven, without even a battle taking place. (As Bro. Jackson said, the last battle will have already taken place at Armageddon). Then Satan will be cast into the lake of fire where the false prophet and the beast are already. (God does away with those spirits of the beast and the false prophet by casting them into the lake of fire that already exists at the start of the Millennium, never to harass or bother anymore). Then after Satan is cast into the lake of fire, you find there will be the great white throne judgment. The only people that will be judged in that white throne judgment will be the people that are lost. Why have a judgment, why not just throw them in there? Because the judgement will be according to the deeds they have done on this earth, that will determine the punishment they will get. The Bible backs that up. (We have a book with all the answers. The Bible is not to be disturbed with man’s thinking. I want to be sure of what I say when I talk about these things because the answer is in the book. The book is The Word of God; the book is the scroll of life).

The Tree of Life
in The Eternal Age

Getting back to my thought. When all of this is finally over and we go into the Eternal Age, we find the tree of life is there. The tree of knowledge of good and evil will not be there. (There was good in the tree of knowledge, but then there was evil in it also. The good and the evil were both there, but the good was never partaken of. Maybe you did not understand that, but the good part would have been the tree of life. Had it not been for sin, partaking of the tree of life would have meant that every child would have been born with eternal life). That is how it will be in the Eternal Age. All the natural people will have partaken of the tree of life. As you read the Bible, you see this earth going through its struggles. But then after it is all over, you are going to find it will be much like it was in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve were first created without sin. But sin entered the picture in the garden when Eve partook of the evil part of the tree of knowledge, not the good part. It would not mention that there was a tree of good and evil, if there had not been good in it.

 

It would not be like it is in this day, with people marching and stating that they should be allowed to kill their babies by abortion. There was a woman not long ago that testified that she worked in an abortion clinic. I guess she had seen many abortions, but one day she saw the little body parts of a baby lying on a table and it changed her mind. They are not careful with what they do; it is just something to get rid of what they call a ‘glob.’ It is not a ‘glob,’ it is a life.

The Serpent, A Snake

Whenever all these things take place, then the Eternal Age will be a time when things will go back to how they were at the beginning. Because God has never been defeated and God will never be defeated! Even though the serpent did what he did, yet God let him live, and he will live through the Millennium into the Eternal Age. But he will never regain his stature to stand like a man. He will always be a snake. It tells us in Isaiah 65 that he will get his meal from the dust of the earth, which will be bugs and things of that nature. Something must control the bug population, even in the Eternal Age. Bugs will be here on Earth, but God has a means of getting rid of them. God never created anything for evil. Because they have their little part here on this earth, even if it is nothing else but to feed other animals. Snakes take care of many things, but that was not what the serpent was originally created to do. The serpent was a beast as the Bible says, but it is now and always will be a crawling creature just like the other snakes. People have tried to figure out which one of the crawling creatures it is. It does not matter which one for God knows exactly where that serpent is, and He will take care of that. That is not part of my message, but maybe it can help someone to understand.

Accept Him

As I said earlier, Jesus is a part of that Jewish race of people, because that is what God called Him to be. He was not of the seed of woman. His whole being was placed in the womb by the Spirit of God (the Holy Ghost), which entered into Mary. She did not know when, but there was a life that began to live. It had to come through that Davidic line. The Bible calls Him the son of David. Do not try to get too deep in your thinking, because if you take anything out of scriptural context, you will get lost. Always let it be as the Bible says it is. Do not try to figure it out, just accept the revelation of it, go on with it and live by it. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior, but I accept Him through the promise of Abraham. That goes all the way back to the garden, in the third chapter of Genesis, where it says the serpent seed will bruise His heal, but He will bruise his head, which Jesus did on the cross. He is the seed that we are talking about. Satan had his way for four thousand years in the minds and hearts of people, but then Jesus Christ came along. In due time He came along, and when He did, He bruised the head of the serpent. In doing that, He is the one that takes over the kingdom in our life. The kingdom of God is within us through Jesus Christ. We have no life without Him. God is setting up His kingdom.

Taking on Christ

As I preached the last Sunday of the June meetings, when I was talking about Matthew 25, and Revelation 19:7. You see there that His wife hath made herself ready. We call her The Bride. The Bible does call her Bride, but then it also calls her ‘His wife.’ That means there is a marriage that takes place when we take on Christ. The Bible says we take Him on. By taking Him on, we have taken on His name. His name is everything. Through the name of Jesus Christ, kingdoms fall. That is the most powerful name, because it takes on the form of God. Jesus was not God, but He was the Son of God, which made Him the closest thing to God that ever lived, closer than the angels. You see that in Hebrews where He was made lower than the angels only in that He had to die. But He was more than the angels when He was resurrected because He took on the form of God. It was the Spirit of God in Him that is delegated to us. That is why the Bible says that we are sons and daughters of God by a new birth, by the spirit of God, by the blood that was shed. Jesus said in the sixth chapter of John, ‘except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you have no life in you.’ That is taking Him inside you. We become a part of Him. He becomes a part of us. We become part of Him through His blood because His blood is life. That is your life today, through the blood. I do not know how it works. I do not know how a heartbeat keeps your body from 97 to 99 degrees, but it does. I do not know altogether how the Spirit of God works, but through the blood it works. We do not have to figure it out, we just have to accept it. We accept His blood, we accept His spirit, therefore we become a part of the kingdom of God here on earth.

The Eastern Gate

Today I am going to go back to Ezekiel 43. I was reading about the altar and so on, it tells the dimensions of the altar and everything. Then I will go to Revelation 11 after I read some here. Chapter 43, verses 1-7, “Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east.” He brought him to the gate that looks toward the east. If you are on the Mount of Olives, you are looking at the eastern gate. But what he is doing, he is inside looking out. We see in Revelation chapter 11 that the temple is completed but the outer courts are not completed. Because it is much bigger than what the temple grounds are now. They say it covers thirty-five acres now, but it is going to be much bigger than that. We know there will be an earthquake and no doubt, that earthquake is going to level some ground. You will see in later messages the length, the breadth, and all that the temple grounds cover, which is much more than what it covers now. “And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: (it comes from the east, toward that eastern gate, which faces the Mount of Olives. God has everything in line. He has things for us to look at. His beauty is something that we can enjoy. The beauty of the Lord is excellence. His glory is more glorious than we think.) and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.” A voice like many waters, we find that in the book of Revelation as we see His glory there. “And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: (you go back to the early part of the book of Ezekiel, and you see the first group of captives being taken to Babylon and Jerusalem begin to be destroyed. He is given visions of an outline of the city being destroyed and he is warning the Jewish people that are around him that the city is going to be destroyed. Which had not yet been destroyed and all the inhabitants had not yet been taken captive or killed, when he had the vision that he is talking of here.) and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.” He is awe stricken by the presence of the Lord. I have seen that happen in Faith Assembly before. This human body can just take so much of the spirit of God and then your spirit leaves your body very weak. But all the time you are seeing something that is visionary and that is going to help you. That is what happens to Ezekiel here. “And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.” It came from the Mount of Olives and into the gate that looks toward the east. That eastern gate is especially important, we will see the importance of it as we go through our study. This is the same way that Jesus came when He came into Jerusalem. That gate was not shut at that time. But He entered that gate and came into the temple grounds. He did not go into the Holy of Holies because it was not yet time. But He went into the temple grounds where the people were. There are only a few people allowed into that inner part of the temple because that privilege will belong to the sons of Zadok. We will learn about that in these messages. “So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; (See? He is going into the inner court himself in the spirit, not physically. Ezekiel is of that rabbinical priesthood, even though he is a prophet.) and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.” God, from a distance, is letting him see His glory of what will be. He is looking at the future, not what it was then.

 

Ezekiel had already seen the destruction of the city, but now he is taken in the spirit into the inner part of what it will be whenever Israel builds back the temple. All the temple ground area will not be built back until the Millennium comes. You will find that in Revelation chapter 11, which we will look at later. “And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.” Which was an angel. “And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, (This is showing how God is to be reverenced in the temple area during the Millennium. The presence of God will be there, the place of the soles of His feet. Heaven is His throne; the Earth is His footstool. We are at His footstool this morning. I hope we are walking in that area, because His footstool means He can walk inside of His family. That is good enough that we are a part of His footstool. We know He is in heaven, but we will invite Him into the earth to be able to walk with us. He is walking among His people. He said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet…) where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, (forever is a period of time, which is the Millennium) and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, (there will be Jewish kings in the Millennium) by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.”

The Little Book Open

Earlier I mentioned Revelation 11. I will go there now to see what we are talking about. I just have two verses in chapter 11, but we will start back in the 10^th chapter and the 8^th verse, “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.” John is bidden to take the scroll (little book) that is already open. This is important. The scroll will be opened to the Bride of Jesus Christ. We find that in the first verse of the eighth chapter. Then it goes on to reveal it in the 10^th chapter. But it is still open as the revelation goes to those two prophets and they will see Him. I know Brother Jonathan Cahn and Brother Yehuda Glick do not see what we see now. They are not supposed to yet because it is not time. But we find in the 13^th chapter of Zechariah, there is a vision to them, and they ask, Where did you get the nail prints in your hands? He will say, in the house of my friends. And in the 12^th chapter it says, they will look upon Him whom they have pierced. The two prophets are going to see that, then they are going to understand. I know Jonathan Cahn believes we are in the time of Elijah. He said that, but he is making everybody little Elijahs. But it is the Elijah spirit that we are in now, because the spirit of Elijah came upon a man, Brother William Branham. In 1933 it is recorded that when Bro. Branham was baptizing the 17^th person in the Ohio River, then the voice spoke. It said, as John the Baptist forerun the first coming of Christ, you will bring forth a message that will forerun the second coming. I knew a woman who was there. Her name was Sister Wilson. She said she was there when that happened. If you can be so easily fooled to think that Bro. Branham was not that prophet, then you are out of the picture. That spirit of the fourth beast of Revelation 4, which was a flying eagle, is going to fly right on down until the coming of the Lord. If we cannot believe that, then we cannot believe the 10^th chapter. Because the 10^th chapter is where the thunders sound. The seven thunders are going to sound with a message that is not written anywhere. When that happens, then there are some people that are ready to go, they are not just getting ready, they are ready. We are not going to be getting ready all the way up until that time, we will be ready. Those that were ready went in. Brothers and sisters, we are doing our part now that is necessary to improve upon our being, upon the spirit that is within us. If we get the spirit in control, our whole body will be in control. We will not want to look like the world, we will not be changing from day to day and from time to time. I do not know what people are trying to do when they cannot get some kind of equilibrium inside that will help them to be presentable before the Lord. I hope that especially the young men will do that. Do not change with every whim and everything that comes along. You be faithful to the Lord; you do not need to look like or copy the world. You might say, well I am a free moral agent. That only goes so far, because we are not free in that way, we are bound by the spirit of God.

 

I will read the ninth verse of Revelation 10, “And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.” This is both sweet and bitter. The sweetness is the presence of the Lord. The bitterness is the message these two prophets must deliver, because they will be calling judgment upon people that come to oppose them. The two prophets have the spirits of Moses and Elijah. I believe we know who those two men are. They do not fit the picture now, but they are heading toward it. When you read that 11^th verse, “And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” You see there is nobody else today in this religious world that has the attention that Jonathan Cahn and Yehuda Glick have. One of these days they will both have to be there in Jerusalem. Of course, Yehuda Glick is already there. But there will be a message that will come to them from what God shows them. For the testimony that they held and the testimony they have now that they have seen Jesus. (Not exactly what the Bride ministry has. Theirs is not for that purpose. Our purpose is for perfection as it says in the fourth chapter of Ephesians, for the work of the ministry until we all are perfected. That is a fivefold ministry of five offices. That is not one or two men. It takes it all to be able to do that.)

The Two Prophets’ Message

Now we will go into the 11^th chapter. Chapter 11 is the fulfillment of them taking and eating (spiritually digesting) the open little book. The little book is the message of chapter 11. Verse one, “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.” You can go back to Ezekiel and find out the measurements. Bro. Jackson, when he was talking to a rabbi in Jerusalem in 1968, he asked the rabbi, I do not quite understand the dimensions and everything it tells in Ezekiel 40, 41 and 42. The rabbi told Bro. Jackson, whenever that time comes, we (the Jews) will understand it. It is not important for us to know the dimensions; the importance is that we begin to understand starting in chapter 43. …There was given me a reed like unto a rod. Now a reed is a measurement, it is about ten feet long. He is given that to measure the altar. If you go back into Ezekiel chapter 43, you will find that the altar is twelve cubits in each direction, which would make it close to eighteen to twenty feet. The cubit used in Ezekiel adds a hand breadth which makes it almost twenty inches to a cubit. Also, he is to measure the temple of God. If it were not there, he could not measure it. The temple must be there when the seventieth week starts. Because there is going to be a brief period of time when Israel gets her land back, then that Davidic line is not going to listen to all this other stuff. You see that in chapter 12 of Zechariah, which we will go to later. Let me go over that again, “And there was given me a reed (which is a measurement) like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, (the Jews will know how to measure that, because it will be given to them.) …and the altar, and them that worship therein.” What is he talking about, ‘measure them’? He is not talking about their height, he is talking about numbering the ones that are a part of that Levitical group, let me say, the sons of Zadok. I will go over that later, but the sons of Zadok were the only ones that could approach unto God, because the rest of the Levites transgressed God. He remembers that, from all that time back, better than twenty-five hundred years ago, He still remembers that. Whenever that time comes, those priests that transgressed will be feeding the people outside the inner court. The Levitical people will, but the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of His sanctuary, will be the ones that will be taking care of the temple itself, and the temple area. It is really going to be as a shame to the others because their family back then transgressed God and God remembers. Verse two, “But the court which is without (that is the outer court. As I said a while ago, the temple area is going to be much bigger than what it is now. Because it is really five thousand feet square. That is almost a mile. An area that large is going to be needed during the Millennium. People from across the world will be going there. During the time of the second temple, about a hundred thousand Jewish people lived in Jerusalem. But whenever they had their feast days, there were about a million in the city. People living there made arrangements for the many coming in to stay with them during that week of time. But the court which is without…) the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” That is the last half of the 70^th week. If you go down to the next verse, you see that the two witnesses prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days. That is the first half of the 70^th week.

The Prince Is of
the Line of David

Let us go back to Ezekiel chapter 44, verse one. “Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.” In his vision he was seeing the gate shut in the future. The Muslims first shut it around AD 800. They shut it because they read in the Bible that when Jesus came back, He would enter through that gate. Then they put a cemetery right in front of it because a Jewish rabbi was not allowed to be defiled by going over the grounds of a cemetery. So, they shut the gate and sealed it with concrete. Not knowing that Jesus will not be walking. They thought they were shutting something out. “Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is for the prince; (It is for the prince. This is something I will get into a little later. The prince is of the Davidic line. We will find that the Bible speaks of this. This was something I did not understand when I went over this a few years ago. But now I begin to see how it works. Because Jesus himself will be both Priest and King. This prince, a natural man, will be both prince and priest.) …the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.” He is the only one that can do that. I know I will get some criticism for this, but I do not really care. I am not doing it to please a bunch of people that do not believe; it is not for them. They can say whatever they want to, put it on their billboards, put it on their internet. Do whatever you want to with what I say, I do not care. But I do care for the people of God, that is the reason I say that. It is them that I care for.

 

It is for the prince; he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord. This is important in the Millennial Kingdom because he is eating, or partaking, of bread, which represents the body of Christ. He shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate and shall go out by way of the same. As I said, he is the only one that can do that. As we read on, we will find that the people cannot enter that way. The prince is a natural man, a natural king. But he is representing God himself. This is not Jesus Christ. Some think it is, but it is not. We will see later that he has children. Verse four, “Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face. And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; (In teaching him the ordinances, he is teaching him the way these priests, the sons of Zadok, are to live and to carry out the ordinances and the laws concerning the house.) …and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, (He is talking to the rebellious people that were living at that time.) Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, (That is what they were doing whenever God chased them out of the land.) uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.” They set up the ones that they wanted that were going to help them.

 

That is just like it is now. In the United States, these people that are for abortion have put a bounty on the heads of the Supreme Court Justices that they do not like. They are trying to get rid of Judge Kavanaugh and others. They have even said that they do not care if they kill them. If they can get rid of two of the justices, then they can make sure that the two replacements that are appointed would make the Court pro-abortion. We live in a nation today that is so corrupt. We have a government so corrupt; they will do anything to get their way. These pro-abortion people are walking the streets in front of the houses of the Supreme Court justices trying to intimidate and incite evil. That is a shame and disgrace to the nation! And for the president to go to another country and stand there and downgrade the Supreme Court of our nation, that is showing his ignorance.

Duties of the Other Levites

Verse nine, “Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.” Now he goes back to the message of what I am talking about. “And the Levites that are gone away far from me, (He is talking about the Levites that did not keep charge of the house of God as they were supposed to.) when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bare their iniquity.” He is prophesying to Ezekiel what is going to happen to them, and you will see. “Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, (They will not be able to enter it. They will be known to be the people that only keep the outside of the temple. They have no part in going in to offer sacrifice. You will see this.) and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, (They will slay the sacrifice for the people. They will be in the outer court.) and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. Because they ministered unto them before their idols, (He is telling the reason why they do not have the higher position.) and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity. And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.” They will never be able to wear the garment that the others do.

The Sons of Zadok

Verse 15, “But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary (the others did not keep the charge of the sanctuary) when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.” God knows exactly who they are. Israel has even found the seed of David in Jerusalem. Five thousand of them, as of a few years ago. Because they were able to trace the lineage by the modern means of DNA. Verse 17, “And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;” (The others never get to wear that. There is something in linen. You even see in Revelation 3, the first few verses concerning Sardis. It said, there are a few names that have not defiled their garments; they shall walk with me in white. I was just looking at something about Martin Luther recently. Those people that followed Martin Luther got so angry at the army that they began to war, and he had to go in among them to try to stop them. So, Martin Luther became feeble while very young, because of all the things he went through. That is why I say, brothers and sisters, yes, there is something coming in this nation, and you may have your guns, but if you think you can march with a bunch of these people, (I do not care who they are) it will not work. I believe in protecting your home, and I believe in protecting your family, but I do not believe in going beyond that. We know it is going to happen. I do not know if it is going to happen while the Bride is here or not, but it is going to happen. I am just putting that in to let you know that we are not going to be out here marching with people, if there is a war started.) “And it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any- thing that causeth sweat.” God is going to keep it cool for them. This is speaking of the inner court of God’s House during the Millennium. And it is speaking to us. Our linen clothes that we have are something we must keep clean. God has given us a set to wear, fine linen, pure and white. It says without spot or blemish or any such thing. Verse 19, “And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, (See what they were doing? They were ministering unto God. The sacrifices they were offering, and all they were doing, was for God. Because they are in His presence. We sing the song, In His Presence, I love that song.) and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; (You see Jews with the little locks hanging down. When we went to Israel, we saw these little boys that had their heads shaved, but their locks were hanging down. They will not have that. I do not know where they came up with all that. Neither shall they shave their heads nor suffer their locks to grow long…) they shall only poll their heads. Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between unclean and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statues in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. (He must wait seven days after the funeral of the family member is over before he can go back into the inner court.) Verse 27, And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord God. (This clears him of that.) And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: (He is talking of the priesthood) and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.” They have that block that God has given them. We will go into that later. Verse 29, “They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, (This is their food. They are eating this to purify themselves and for the people. They must eat the sin offering and they must eat the trespass offering, which is sin also.) and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest (singular) the first of your dough, that he (Who is it talking about? This priest is the prince of verse three that will be sitting in the gate. It is not priests, plural, it is priest, one. Ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he…) may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. The priests (plural) shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.” I hope this makes sense. I hope that I can enable you to see that we are talking about the Millennium. I thought at first to title these messages The Millennial Temple, but then I changed it to The Millennium Reign, because I want to cover both in this. Because there is very much in it. Let us pray.

Preached on July 14, 2022 – pm

 

God is good, we thank the Lord for His wonderful care for us. I am on the subject of The Millennium Reign. As I study this, I realize there are many things that will help the body of Christ when this series is over. God has given us understanding through the years of some of the things that He was going to do in the body of Christ. The Bible says, we shall reign with Him. “Reign” is not a light word; it means something of a serious nature. As I have gone over this, we are the body of Christ, as recorded in 1^st Corinthians 12:27, now we are the body of Christ. Paul is not talking strictly about a future event there; he is talking about then and right now. It is important that we realize that and that we present ourselves daily in a way that we can show to other people (especially to the body of Christ) a nature that cannot be spoken against. We can do that; we can live in a way that we are above reproach. Especially the reproach of the devil because he is going to try to bring it on. He does not like us, and we do not like him. We know the devil causes all the trouble that people have. He was the first one in the garden to cause problems with Adam and Eve. Now it has passed on down to us. The sin that was committed in the garden was passed down to us. It is up to us to eradicate that in the Name of Jesus Christ. We must get rid of the old man, the old person we were. Not just to say, well that is the way I am, or the way I grew up, or this was the way it was in my family. We are in a different family, the family of God. The family of God is seeking to do the right things every day, in whatever capacity we live in, wherever we are, whatever we are doing. It can be done. If you ever worked in a place like I did at Ford Motor Company, you did not always hear good words. It caught your attention, but you did not live like what they had said. Even though you heard it when they were saying it and knew that it was wrong. Yet you had your guard up. We have a guard to protect us from the evil things of the world and from the temptations that come our way. If I can in any way, I will help people to understand that we have a guard. I want to be able to help people realize that we must keep things in check before we do or say them. Because we do have that privilege and obligation to watch our life, our language, everything that we are. I am not trying to narrow it down to where you cannot do it. God never asks you to do anything in His word that is impossible for you to do. He did not put anything in there that is not possible to live. People have said in times past that the Word of God is just too stringent. It is to them because they are trying to solve it on their own. But when we realize that we have been bought and paid for, and we have that seal, the seal of the Holy Ghost, to keep us and guide us. It is a joy to live for Him. He is the very present help in the time of need. One thing about it, we need Him every day.

 

Representatives of Christ

 

There is never a time when we do not need the Lord Jesus Christ. He has included us in His body. When we are talking about the body of Christ, we are talking about His movement upon the earth. We are His representatives. It even talks about the ministry being that of an ambassador, or a steward. That is something to be desired, not only as a minister, but in whatever position we have. We can live for Christ no matter what comes our way. We are not out here trying to make a way for ourselves or trying to do something on our own. This is too important for us to only think of ourselves. We must think of ourselves as being a part of the body of Christ. Paul explains that in the 12^th chapter of First Corinthians and the fourth chapter of Ephesians. Telling us how we are connected, fitly joined together, compacted, every joint supplying, and everything else. We may be nothing more than a joint, but a joint connects something. My arm cannot function as an arm without joints. The joints put each part of it together, even down to the hands and the fingers. This is His movement; we are His movement on earth. We are His heritage. We are His fulfilling of life on earth. Outside of the body of Christ, you do not see any life. You do not see life here even in the foolish virgins, they are mixed up in something of the world. That is not the life that we believe in. It is going to take the 15^th chapter of Revelation, to show what they are to become, on that fiery sea of glass. That sea of glass mingled with fire is speaking of what they will have to go through to make up the foolish virgins. They are not a part of the Bride of Christ. They have things to do too, but it is not to preach the gospel to the Bride. There is a separation in Matthew chapter 25 of the foolish virgins and the real (wise) virgins. When we talk about these things, we are not bragging. There is nothing for us to brag about, it is all to brag about Him and to show forth the life that comes from Him. It can be done, and it will be done. The Bible says as I quoted earlier, now we are the body of Christ and members in particular. That means each member is showing how each part supplies to the other parts. We are not that of our own self. I did not save myself; I did not call myself into the ministry, but I know Who did. I know that He never fails, He always does what He is supposed to do. We thank Him for that.

 

We have the latest member of the body of Christ here, the little Turner baby. It is good to see Brother and Sister Turner with their new little one. I do not know how people can mistreat babies like they do or take them from their mother’s womb as they do. But that is the world, this is what the world wants. They do not want that obligation. They would rather just think it is a glob of something and get rid of it, because it does not mean that much to them. They do have these places now where they can drop babies off if they do not want them. That will save a few of them, that is better than destroying them, because they are destroying life. I saw something showing two little boys in New York were kicking and hitting police officers. That did not come from them, that came from some grown up. It had to come from a family member, otherwise they would not be trying to mistreat policemen. The police just had to back off and leave them, because they just kept on and would not stop. Others that were older, stood by watching them. What a disgrace to a country. When God gets ready to clean this mess up, people who have taught their children to think that everything is bad will suffer and those little children are going to suffer with them. Just like it was with Elisha, those parents sent their little children out there to mock Elisha, it was the wrong thing to do. People are mocking Jesus Christ now, especially in America. I saw the other day where they tore down a statue of George Washington. What did George Washington do to them? He just brought forth a country to give them the privileges that they have, which other countries do not have. But they do not appreciate that. I appreciate it. When I was going to school, we were taught that George Washington was the father of our country, and I believe that. He was the one that brought about the government. They wanted to make him king, but he said no, he did not want to be king over a country. He knew what it had done to England, from where he came. He wanted a government that could be run by honest people. But we see the dishonesty now. Biden is over there trying to get peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, but it is all a front to try to get somebody to send their dirty oil over here instead of drilling for our own. The United States has the cleanest oil in the earth and plenty of it. But he wants to get oil from some other place. That is the way the minds of the government are. We are certainly not proud of that.

 

Jerusalem, The Oblation

 

I am going to go to Ezekiel 45 now. There is much about weights, balances, and measurements and what they mean in this chapter. These are to get Israel to do the right things in the Millennium. They are going to be governed by a government of natural man when the Millennium starts. There will be laws in the Millennium because there will be death then. I can prove it by Ezekiel that there will be death of certain ones. Not just at the end of the thousand years but throughout. We know at the end there will be a number as the sand of the sea which will come against Jerusalem, the Holy City, as it is called, and God will destroy them. But we are going to see some things in this that I do not think we have seen before. By the grace of God, I will prove it by the scripture. The Book has a lot in it yet to be discovered and be brought out. I am thankful for what we have already been given because that is what started us on our way. We had a prophet and an apostle that guided us in the right direction. But there must be more revelation in conjunction with that. It cannot be something that nobody could ever understand because what I am going into is understandable. I want you to be able to understand it. I will read here about the different things and about the different laws because people in the Millennium will need to have somebody to direct them. They are going to have a leadership among men during the Millennium. Natural men to lead them in the right direction. The Bride of Jesus Christ will be the rulers over that natural leadership throughout the earth. But in Jerusalem it will be the Jewish apostles to rule over the natural government at that time. We are going to look at these things and see where they lead us and see if God can give us understanding. I want to spend my time studying for this message. I am not going to just come up here and say a bunch of words. I want it to be the word of God, and that is what I mean for it to be, with no slip ups. I may slip up in the words I say, but not in the message because the message is truth. Verse one, “Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation (you will see that the oblation, or thing offered, is the city, Jerusalem) unto the Lord, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, (which is greater than forty-seven miles. That is how long the city is going to be. It is not going to be a little place; it is going to be a big place because it is for the Millennium. The city is not all going to be finished at the start of the Millennium. You have just the temple and the altar that will be built before the 70^th week starts. That altar will be for the sacrifices the people bring. The altar will be about twenty feet square. In Ezekiel 43 the altar is measured as twelve of the greater cubits (or one standard cubit plus a handbreadth, or about twenty inches per greater cubit) which equals about twenty feet. So, I will leave it at that). “…the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, (a reed is ten feet) and the breadth shall be ten thousand. (which will be almost twenty miles wide. This is that holy portion which will be the possession of the Levites and the prince in that area. Then you have other parts of the city). This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.” We are not looking at a little place. When all the measurements are added together it is going to be a square. From one side to the other, it will all be equal, that is, the length and breadth will be five and twenty thousand reeds, which will be more than forty-seven miles by forty-seven miles. That is going to be a big city. It is going to be needed because of what God is going to do. Israel is not going to be a little place like it is now. It will go all the way up to the Euphrates River and all the way down to the river Egypt, which we know the river Egypt goes right down to the bottom next to the Suez Canal in that area. Then from sea to sea, and even eastward beyond the Dead Sea and beyond the river of Jordan. Whenever God allotted the land to Abraham, he had its border at the Jordan River. But when the children of Israel came into one portion of the land and they had set up camp, there were three tribes (Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh) that wanted that part of the land which was on the other side of Jordan. So, Moses allotted that to them, but they had to go with the other tribes and fight the enemies and conquer the land first before they could come back to their land. Israel is going to be a bigger place than it is now. You will read about it as we go along.

 

The Sanctuary in The Center

 

Verse two, “Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, (That is about five thousand feet each way according to the measurement of a reed equal to a little over ten feet) …square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.” The suburbs, or pastures, will be around the outside next to the wall. “And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: (it is the same thing he is talking about in verse one) and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests (The priests will not have inheritance of land in Israel. The Levite tribe will be in Jerusalem. They will not have a portion of the land. All their portion will be in Jerusalem because they are the ones who will be performing the sacrifices and all. People may think that the sacrifice is strange during the Millennium, but it is not strange. Because you are looking at unregenerate children of Israel who never did keep the Law. Some may say, well they are just looking back at Christ. That is one thought, but the main thing is the Law is going to be adhered to in the strictest sense. The children of Israel repeatedly failed that in their beginning. In the Millennium they must get things right with God). “The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.” You see, the houses of the Levites as well as the sanctuary will be in that area of ten thousand by twenty-five thousand reeds. The sanctuary will sit in the middle of that area and be five hundred by five hundred reeds, or about five thousand feet each way. “And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.” They will have chambers for a brief rest because much of their time is going to be spent inside the sanctuary. Plus, they will have houses to live in outside of the sanctuary. “And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, (This is the area where all the nations of Israel will be able to come to, which will be almost fifty miles by ten miles.) and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.” For the whole house of Israel.

 

 

The Possession of The Prince

 

Verse seven, “And a portion shall be for the prince (now this is a person that we are going to look into as we go through chapters 45 and 46 and see just who this is meaning. You have to go to other scriptures in the Bible to find the meaning of things. I have studied this and found the answer in the 33^rd chapter of Jeremiah, which I will get to later). “And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation (so he has his portion on each side of the oblation) of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side, eastward: (He has a greater portion than anyone else. We will find out who this prince really is. People have thought that this prince is Christ, but it is not Christ. He is a man of the Jews. We will see that this prince can only be from the Tribe of Judah). and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes (Now there is more than one) shall no more oppress my people; (Which they used to do) and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, (These are instructions to the princes. In the Millennium, everything is not well because you have serpent seed there. We are going to look at that. Let us go over that again). Verse nine, “Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.” They can no longer be exactors like it was with Eli. You can read in First Samuel that Eli was among the judges. He had two sons that oppressed the people; put exactions on them. Took away their land, took away parts of their sacrifices. Anything that they brought to Shiloh, the two sons took the best of it and left the people not trusting them anymore. So, God had to destroy them. Even Eli died because of it. Verse ten, “Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.” Now these are measures, an ephah and a bath are measures. “The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, (they are the same amount, but they are used for different things: ephah for grains, bath for liquids. It is not to take a bath in, it is a measurement.) that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, (a homer is equal to eighty-six gallons, and the bath is one tenth of that.) and the ephah the tenth part of an homer; the measure thereof shall be after the homer. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.” Which is a measurement of currency such as gold or silver. Verse 13, “This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley.” This is what they are to bring to the priests. People will be bringing this daily to the priests to offer up sacrifices. These sacrifices are sin offerings. You would not think that sin offerings would be necessary after the Lord has returned with His Bride, but this is for Israel as a natural people in the Millennium. This has nothing to do with the Old Testament saints like Abraham and Isaac and all of them. They too will already be in glorified bodies. As are the apostles and the 144,000. But this is pertaining to the natural people alone. Verse 14, “Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, (a bath of oil is about eight gallons) ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God.” You are going to see here what he is really talking about. “All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.” The prince in Israel, that is something I looked at in the past but just never could get it straight. One Bible translation says high priest instead of prince. The King James Version says prince. Which is it? Well, now I know that he is both. He is the one offering up sacrifices and he is the one that will be ruling the land of Israel in the natural sense. “And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, (Why is he preparing a sin offering? Because there is sin.) and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.” Reconciliation, to bring them back, to keep them straight. Because in the Millennium there are going to be natural people to occupy Israel. The Bible says the Law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. This is what will rule the land. Of course, you are going to have natural people living in all the lands throughout the Millennium, not just in the land of Israel. And there will be death. We will find out about that later.

 

The Priest Is The Prince

 

Verse 18, “Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: And the priest (‘priest’, singular; it does not say ‘priests’, plural. This priest is the prince of verse sixteen. He is both prince and priest. It is the same person). shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, (the settle of the altar is what the altar sets on, that is the reason it is called a settle. The altar is twenty feet by twenty feet and the settle is about twenty-four by twenty-four. It goes four feet beyond on each side). and upon the posts (now he is talking about the blood of the sin offering, the priest shall take of the blood, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts…) of the gate of the inner court.” This is the same thing they did in Moses’ time. “And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, (this is self-explanatory, for everyone that erreth, or sinneth, the offering is done this way) and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.” For a simple person that knows no better. You are making reconciliation for them also because they will be included in that time. Everybody is not going to be exactly in their right mind at the beginning. The Millennium is the cleansing time. This is the purifying time before going into the Eternal Age. God is getting rid of all things that err and all things that offend in the Millennium. When we go into the Eternal Age, all we have are perfect people. Because God has brought back perfection, the way it should have been in the garden if there had been no sin. God is bringing perfection back to where that in the Eternal Age, you have what it should have been before sin entered into the garden. There you will have the tree of life. Everyone that goes into the Eternal Age will have the Holy Ghost, that is what the tree of life is. Verse 20, “And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.” You have people born in the Millennium that are not altogether capable of discerning right and wrong. But God makes a way for them. “In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, (Why are they going to have a Passover if there is no sin? This is not just a remembrance of something, this is real. I hope you understand that this is something real. Just like it was in Moses’ time, ye shall have the Passover…) a feast of seven days; unleavened bread (they cannot have any leaven in their house) shall be eaten. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself (we read above about the priest, now let us see what it says about the prince. It is intertwined) and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.” If this is not the one and self-same person, why is it there? It is the self-same person. I will read that again. “And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself, (See? “for himself” so, he is fallen too. He is not a perfect being) and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.” Why is God letting a man prepare a sin offering if there is no sin? It would not make any sense. Verse 23, “And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; (that is a total of forty-nine of each of these animals, in those seven days) and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.” The goat is always used for a sin offering, always. Remember in the Old Testament, they would take two goats, kill one of them and put its blood on the other one and turn it loose. That was the releasing of their sins to go away. But the other one is offered for the offering. That goat is killed for their sins, and the other one is let go. Because God is illustrating something. Verse 24, “And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.” This was in the seventh month. The previous offerings in verse eighteen are done in the first month. This seventh month would be the time of the feast of tabernacles. The tabernacle is where God will tabernacle (or make His dwelling) with man in the Millennium, and He will tabernacle with His Bride people.

 

Regathered Twelve Tribes

 

I am not through with that, I will go into Ezekiel chapter 46 the next time, Lord willing. Now, I am going to go to Zechariah 10, verse three. This may not seem like it belongs with what I am saying, but you will see. “Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, (that is talking about the shepherds of Israel, the Levites that should have been doing the right thing) and I punished the goats: (God is not mincing words, He is calling them goats, which is not good.) for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.” This is where I began to see where that prince comes from, but I will get it more perfect as we go on. Verse four, “Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.” That is talking about something yet to come, whenever Israel gets their land back. “And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, (Joseph and Ephraim are both used here to represent the ten northern tribes. Ephraim was younger than Manasseh, but when Jacob went to bless the two sons of Joseph, he knowingly placed his right hand upon the head of Ephraim and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh. So, Ephraim received the greater blessing. Bro. Branham said he blessed in the cross). Verse seven, “And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord. I will hiss for them, (Do you know how to hiss? “Psst, come here.” He wants to talk to them alone. He is not talking to the world; He is talking to Ephraim. You have been apart from the house of Judah for so long. Come, I want to unite you). “I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. Verse nine, And I will sow them among the people: (He has told them of their future regathering, now He is referring back to where they had been… sown among the Gentiles). and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead (Gilead is on the east side of the Jordan River where they divided the land. Three tribes wanted to stay over there, because it was a good land. So, God gave Gilead to them. This land is in the country of Jordan now, but God gave it to Israel. I know Jordan is there now, but they will not be there for long. Jordanians claim the Temple Mount and have all their rules and regulations. They are the Arabs that cause all the trouble on the Temple Mount. But Yehuda Glick gets up there and sings, reads his Bible, and prays. It is an aggravation to those Arabs. They scream at him, curse him, and call him all kinds of names. But he just goes on as though they were not even there. When we were there, he walked all around with us. He took us through the mess left there from where they had placed huge rocks in the way. There was gravel, dirt, and debris everywhere. They thought they were doing something to hinder us, but they did not succeed. “And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; (Egypt and Syria are the two countries that will be united with Israel after the miraculous war takes place and Israel takes their land back). “and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; (Israel is having trouble on the north from Lebanon. Hezbollah is firing rockets into Israel. God is going to give Israel that part of the land also. He will get rid of the problem.) and place shall not be found for them.” In other words, there will not be enough room. Israel now is not big enough for all the regathered Jews. There are already eight million Jews in Israel. That place is very crowded and there is so much of the land that is not tilled and planted yet, because it is sixty percent desert. Verse 11, “And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.” He is going to take care of Israel.

 

The Strength of Judah

 

I will go from there to Zechariah the 12^th chapter. Verse one, “The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, (Biden, you should come home. Why do you want to go over there and make a mess? You are trying to get a United States Consulate for the Palestinians in Israel. It is all crazy, it is not going to work no matter what. You will go over there and read big words from the teleprompter, but you cannot really put a sentence together without it. What a shame and disgrace. Editor’s note: President Biden was in Israel July 13-15, 2022.) “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.” There is going to be a war. Verse three, “And in that day (there is a day coming) will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” Come back home Biden, they do not need you over there. “In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.” He is talking about what He is going to do to those people that come against Jerusalem. “And the governors of Judah (this is why I am reading this, because of Judah and Jerusalem) shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, (they are going to push them away. It does not mean they are going to eliminate all of them, they are just going to push them back.) on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, (He is saving Judah first because Judah is the warring tribe. He does not want the house of David nor Jerusalem to think they have done it on their own, because it is going to take the whole tribe of Judah to do it. As I said, it is God’s warring tribe. Verse seven, “The Lord shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.” Of course, that would be the angel, Michael. “And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: (this is under the ministry of the two prophets) and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for his firstborn.” They are going to feel as though He was their first-born child. “In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; (He is placing the women in one place and the men in another place, because He does not want that distraction between woman and man. This is just for a short time until repentance is made). the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”  Lord willing, I will go into a little more of this on Sunday.

 

I will read one more verse. Chapter 13, verse one, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.” Why is He going to do that? For the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, because the house of David is where the prince comes from. Let us pray.

July 17, 2022
AM Service

This will be part 4 on this subject. The thing about it is, we must please the Lord by doing His will. I praise the Lord for that. I will be going over Ezekiel 46 to get us up to date on what is going to be happening during the Millennium. When the Millennium starts the temple, and the altar will be the only parts of the city that will be completely built. But first there will be the 70^th week of Daniel. In Revelation 11 we see the temple and altar are measured and the two prophets are on the scene during that first half of the week. They will bring judgment upon much of Israel because of their disobedience in turning over their government to the beast system. Something will happen between now and the beginning of that week that will scare Israel into that covenant with the beast. I believe it will be Ezekiel 38 and 39 happening right at the first of the week. That will make them realize they have been almost annihilated. They will not be annihilated, but they will come near to that point of annihilation before the fury of The Lord intervenes in their behalf. Then at the middle of the week the beast system kills the two prophets because they have caused the world all kinds of problems. Then they lay in the street for three- and one-half days. Their bodies will bloat, and everybody will be looking at that, and rejoicing, and thanking the beast system for ending their torment after three- and one-half years.

 

The Prince Fulfills
The Office of High Priest

 

But I will skip over the tribulation to the beginning of the Millennium. I will be talking much about the prince and the priests. Then from there, I will incorporate Jeremiah, chapter 33. I will start my reading in Ezekiel 46, verse one. “Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.” These are two of the times that will require the eastern gate to be opened and the prince to enter there. “And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering (now the priests are the ones that prepare the burnt offering, but the prince is the one who gives direction over the burnt offering, we will get into that when we go to Jeremiah 33. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering…) and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.” The gate he is talking about is that eastern gate, it will be open until evening, then it will be closed around six o’clock. The reason I am going about it this way, I want us to know who that prince is. We will find out through scripture who he is. I dealt with these scriptures at one time. I was reading from the Lamsa version of the Bible then and it called him the high priest instead of the prince. I dealt with it that way and I had a preacher call me and told me I was wrong about it, because it was a prince. But we are going to find out who that prince is because the scripture tells you. Verse three, “Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.” You know what a new moon is, it is when you see that first little sliver of the moon. “And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.” He offers this to the Lord, but it is killed by the sons of Zadok. When it says priests here, it is talking about the sons of Zadok because the other priests are not allowed in that inner court. They will be in the outer court because they sinned before the Lord. But the sons of Zadok, who are the Levites that kept the charge of the sanctuary, will be the ones to offer up the sacrifices in the inner court. Verse five, “And the meat offering (the meat offering is referring to a meal that is prepared with the meat and grain and the oil. The whole offering is called the meat offering throughout scripture.) shall be an ephah (which is a bushel and three pints. for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.” The hin of oil is six quarts. The meat together with the baking of the bread, which would be made of either wheat or barley. “And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.” There are many animals to be killed. Verse seven, “And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin or oil to an ephah. And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.” He is the only one that can do that. He comes in the porch of the gate, and he goes out the porch of the gate. None of the rest of the people can go out the way they came in. Verse nine, “But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.” Why is this? Because he has offered his offering, and he has dedicated himself that he will not go back the same way he came in. He must go the opposite way. It is different with the prince because he is ruler over the whole thing. As I said, we will find out who he is. “And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offerings shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.” Which would be six quarts per ephah. Verse twelve, “Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering (He is the one who is the overseer; the prince is not the one that kills the animals, that is the priests’ job.) or peace offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.” The eastern gate is shut after he leaves since there is no more entering into that gate at that time. “Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.” These lambs and other animals are not butchered just to be butchering and burning, they are for the priests to eat. This represents the death of Christ. It says in the sixth chapter of John, you must eat my flesh and drink my blood. They are eating the offering as a type. They are partaking of this meat offering (this sacrifice of the animal) because Jesus Christ is the bread of life, and He is the meat of life. This is all in a representation and will be done throughout the Millennium. See, they are back under the Law. The reason for that is because there are generations of people that will be born and raised in that one thousand years that have never known Christ. They have never known Him, but they will be introduced to Him by these offerings they are making. They must do this to fulfill the Law that was never fulfilled. Verse 14, “And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord.”

 

The Millennial Temple

 

I have a picture of the Millennial temple. You see the temple and in front of it is the altar where they offer the burnt offerings. It is over eight feet high and is twenty feet by twenty feet. The altar is set on the settle which is twenty-four feet square. It is a large place because there are many animals to be killed on it. It is a thing of beauty that we look at, because it will be beautiful. Every day this area will be cleaned. It will not stink or cause contamination. God is very much pleased with cleanliness. I am also talking about our lives and what we are doing in our lives. As in the fifth chapter of Ephesians, we are washed by the water of the word. Paul is talking about the water of the word, which is the Spirit of God. The Spirit is the water of life. Verse 15, “Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.” Christ is what replaced that daily sacrifice for believers, once for all. But this is showing what the Jewish people must do to fulfill the Law. The temple area will not be completely built until the during the Millennium, because they will not have time. The outer court will be trodden under the feet of the Gentiles for the second half of the week. In the middle of the week, all you have is the temple and the altar. God will cause something to happen in the temple area that is going to flatten that land to the point where it will be five thousand feet square. That is almost a mile square that will be the temple area. During the Millennium there will be a lot going on there and many people going through there. It will be much bigger than what the temple ground is now. “Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, (This proves that this is not Christ, this is a natural Jewish man with sons. We will find out more about who that man is.) the inheritance shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.” He is going to have a large plot of land on either side of the oblation. Because the whole of the city will be over forty-four miles each way. Jerusalem is so important in Israel’s history because it is where their leadership came from. What will be done in Jerusalem will be known around the world. Israel will be sacrificing the animals because they missed it before. Verse 17, “But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; (That is the time of return. Everything goes back to the prince. The sons of the prince will keep what he gives them, but the stranger must give his gift back to the prince at the year of liberty, which is the fiftieth year.) after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them. Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; (This is what happened before.) but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.” Now he is going on to something else. Verse 19, “After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, (That is where the sons of Zadok minister. The other Levites that turned against what God had commanded will not be able to sacrifice in the holy chambers. They will minister in the outer court to offer what the prince directs for them to sacrifice.) which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, (This is in a different place from the sanctuary. These offerings will feed the people.) where they shall bake the meat offering; (It is prepared differently. It is a boiled offering and a baked offering. The other is what we would call ‘grilled’ today.) that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, (Which is the outside court where they will feed the people.) and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.” The first method of preparing the offering is for the priests to eat after the sacrifice. The second is for the people to eat. There are very few restaurants in this area, just maybe tables and chairs where they can eat the meat offerings. Not just for eating though, there will be other ceremonies and activities done in the outer court.

 

The Prince Fulfills
the Office of Rulership

 

I want to go to Jeremiah 33. We are going to find out who this prince really is. I will start with the 10^th verse. “Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, (Talking about the Land of Israel when Mark Twain went through there.) The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord.” The voices of singers, the sons of Asaph. Here, in the inner court, (referring to the Temple picture above) is where the singers sing. The sons of Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and 73 through 83. Asaph led the singing in the inner court, all for worship unto the Lord. It is not just for the people. They will hear the singing from the outer court, but really this is for worshipping the Lord. The sons of Zadok and this prince worship the Lord in the inner court. Then in the outer court, the other Levites (not the sons of Zadok) will have their part in worshipping the Lord. But they will be known for their past transgression. God does not forget. He does not hold back from correcting them thousands of years later. Verse 12, “Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.” God is very interested in the animal sacrifices. That is why the scriptures talk so much about the animals that are for the sacrifices for the children of Israel. “In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, (or the valleys, this is all pleasing to God) and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord. Verse 14, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.” We are getting into something important now. He refers to Judah and Jerusalem, we are getting into something. Verse 16, “In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness (Christ is The Branch.) to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, (You see that in Zechariah 12.) and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: (Which goes on into the Millennium.) and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness.” God is getting glory now, out of it all. “For thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.” David shall never want for a man (that means that the House of David will never be without a man to sit upon the throne). Do you see? This prince must be a son of David, because the line of David keeps ruling even in the Millennium. I have scriptures in the New Testament written down to prove this, if I have time to get to them today. It is a son of David that enters by the way of the gate of the inner court in Ezekiel 46. And you see in Zechariah 12 that Jerusalem will turn to the house of David. Verse 18, “Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.” (Like the house of David, the Levites will never be without a man to offer the sacrifices. He repeats this three times, first in verse 17, here in 18, then in verse 21.) “And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; If you can stop day and night, then this covenant with David will be broken. But you cannot do it. It must not be broken. Verse 21, “Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; (This is what I hunted for. I knew it was there, but looking in my Bible concordance, I could not find it in any setting. I had to go to Strong’s Concordance, which is a very big book. Really, it was presented in a way that I saw it when I was looking for it. It came to me in an unusual way.) Verse 21 again, “Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.” It shows the prince, a son of David, and the Levites together. I want you to understand this, because the Bride of Jesus Christ will see it in the Millennium. “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.” Jerusalem is the home of David. Verse 23, “Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, (He is talking about Joseph or Ephraim (two names for the ten northern tribes) and Judah.) he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.” This goes back into the tenth and twelfth chapters of Zechariah. “Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.” We have gone over how the temple will function in the Millennium. The temple area of the courts where the offerings are given and the where the singers are. The inner court is for the sons of Zadok and the prince. The prince is really referring to a higher office than even a king. The prince, the seed of David, will be a king (or ruler) over the house of Israel. And the prince will be more than just a high priest. I hope this is interesting to you. I do not want to just put out something that is not meaningful. This was a thing of dispute in the past when I first preached it.

 

We Are the Habitation of God

 

Now I want to go to Hebrews chapter three. Verse one, “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.” Here it calls Him the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. When we read the seventh chapter, we will see something more. “Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.” Meaning he was faithful in the house of Israel. “For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.” If you go in and look at a house, you are going to see the man that built it. If it is shoddy work, then you will see the shoddiness of it. Because it says the one that built it has more honour than the house. We know that God built all things. The beauty of the Builder will be more blessed than what the house will be, because after this temple is completed and the Shekinah glory comes into it, then it just lights up. The Bible says the Old Testament was written for our learning, or our education. That we might live according to what grace has brought to us. There is nothing like the grace of God. Otherwise, we would have been under the Law, and we would be offering sacrifices daily. But this was done once for all in Jesus Christ. Verse 4, “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; (We are the house of the Lord. The Bible talks about it, we are His building. In other words, we are God’s habitation here on earth. These things are very important, and I want to get into more detail next Sunday. I will be on this same subject, but I have some things I want to deal with that have been on my mind for a long time. I want to let us know who we are, what we are, what we can become, and what we cannot become. I did not feel that I had time to do all these things today. But Christ as the 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.” Verse seven, “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”

 

Jesus Christ, Both King
and High Priest

 

Now I will go to the seventh chapter of Hebrews, starting with verse eleven. “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, (He is talking about another priest which would by Jesus Christ. He will take on himself both king and priest, but He will be over the entire family of God in the Millennium. He will not be living in the natural Jerusalem. He will have order over natural Jerusalem, but He will not be living in Jerusalem. He will be living in the new Jerusalem, which we are a part of.) and not be called after the order of Aaron?” He is comparing this. We will see more later. “For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.” He is talking of the change from Law to Grace, and a change of the priesthood. Jesus Christ is our high priest. It is He that we go to. Verse 14, “For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.” When God changed the order from Law to Grace, He had to change the tribe. He went from the tribe of Levi to the tribe of Judah, bringing in Christ. If Christ had been under the Levitical priesthood, we would have to go back to the Law. “And it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, (talking about Christ) Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, (which is the law of Moses) but after the power of an endless life.” We serve a Savior that will never die. He died once. Once for all, once for us. Verse 17, “For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before (which is the Law) for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, (It was there for a regulation, just like a stop sign. I know we all kind of ease through them anymore, instead of completely stopping, but it really means stop. But we cannot ease through these scriptures. This change stopped the Law.) “For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” My, what a great opportunity, that we can not only see God in His word, but we can have Him within us. This is a must for the Bride of Christ. I would like to say this right now. We are becoming more like Him. We must become more like Him. We cannot settle for just what we always were. Verse 20, “And inasmuch as not without an oath (God made the oath for Jesus Christ.) he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)” Melchisedec represented an endless life. Jesus Christ represents an endless life, who can live in us to give us eternal life. We do not have to go back to the offering of sacrifices. The Jews will go back to it in the Millennium. But the Bride of Jesus Christ is lifted higher than this natural Jerusalem. Of course, we will see the glory of this (referring to the Temple picture), because it will show everywhere. Verse 22, “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.” There is a scripture in Ezekiel chapter 44 that I went over. It says that a priest must marry a maiden (someone who has not been married). He cannot marry a divorcee. He can only marry a maiden or a widow that her husband had been a priest. This shows that there are priests who will die in the Millennium. There is much death in the Millennium. You see instances of it in the 13^th chapter of Zechariah. There will still be a lot of foolish people, especially right at the end of the thousand years. In Revelation chapter 20 it says, they that number as the sand of the sea will come up and compass Jerusalem, the holy city. There will be many people that will not believe what we have just gone over. They will come from the world over and be destroyed by fire from God.

 

I want to read that 23^rd verse of Hebrews seven again, “And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” He does that right now. “For such an high priest became us, (Jesus, this high priest, was from the seed of Judah in his relationship to Israel. We know He was the Son of God; we know that He was born into a Jewish family, of the tribe of Judah. Therefore, He was counted to be a son of Judah, and a son of David. For such an high priest became us…) who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.” When the multitude that was with Judas laid hands on Him in the garden, He made it known that He could call to His Father for more than twelve legions of angels to save Him. But this was His sacrifice for us. God appointed it that if He had not gone all the way, we would have no salvation. But through His body and His blood we have salvation. There is no salvation in any other, only Him. Not as Joel Osteen said, there may be people in other religions that will be saved. That is crazy. He needs to get on his knees and go back to ‘Bible school.’ That would teach him something, instead of going to some university, or some seminary (or cemetery) for his education. “For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; (which die) but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.” Praise be to God for Jesus Christ because He was consecrated for evermore! Prayer.

To be continued in next issue…