(Singing:)  “Anointing, fall on me . . . “

Truly we need the Lord’s Anointing in our lives.  Let’s give Him praise for it.  Hallelujah.  Praise the Lord.

While you’re standing, would you get your Bibles this evening and let’s study a little bit of the Word of God together beginning in Numbers.  We have . . .  In our weekly Torah portions, we have finished the Book of Leviticus for this year, and we have moved into the Book of Numbers.

I certainly can’t speak for anybody other than myself, but I’ve already enjoyed tremendously what I have read so far in the Book of Numbers.  I found so many things that I had never read right in the Scripture.  And I study a lot of commentary, too, but I found so many interesting little things in the Scripture already reading these past few weeks in the Book of Numbers.

There are so many obvious things, and there are other implied and hidden things, that the Spirit can illuminate and make alive.  And I appreciate those so much.

Let’s recognize and greet those who are joining with us on the video streaming.  That’s a wonderful host of people for a Tuesday night, isn’t it?  So we send love to all of them.  Amen?

Numbers, chapter 8.

1.  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2.  Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

3.  And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.

4.  And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

Let’s pray together.

Father, we thank you that You have given us this opportunity to gather together and sanctify Your holy Name.  We thank You that You have given us strength and health and that You most of all have given us a desire, Lord, because when we lose our desire, we begin to lose our soul.  It begins to slip away from us.  And we thank You tonight that You have increased in us the desire to meet together in Your Name and receive from Your hand.

We know that the enemy is displeased, and we bind him and smite his works in the Name of Yeshua.  

We pray, Lord, for healing for those that are sick and oppressed - that You will grant swift miracles according to Your will and that You will anoint our minds, our hearts and spirits tonight that we could receive some little nugget from this Your Word.  And we’ll be careful to give You the glory and the honor and the praise for it all.  BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach.  Amen.  And the church said, “Amen.”

The portion for this week . . .  And again, this will mean a whole lot more to you if you take time . . .  It doesn’t take that long.  You’d be surprised.  It really doesn’t take that long to read the Torah and the Haftarah and the Gospel portion every week.  I think it goes rather quickly.

I had a wonderful opportunity to read my portion several weeks ago in Haifa in the northern part of Israel right on the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.  And Brother Greeley and
Brother Erik . . . I had a desire to share with them Mount Carmel.  I wanted them to be able to go into the Jewish cave, the cave where the Jewish people come and pray to commemorate the ministry of Elijah the prophet.

And, of course, on the top of the hill the church is . . . is another experience altogether.  

And then we went down to the place of burning where that great showdown took place.  I didn’t feel so very swift that morning and I didn’t really want to make the journey to the cave and then the cable car up to the top, so I took the opportunity to sit down on a large rock on the . . . not much of a beach, not much space between me and the Mediterranean Ocean, or the Mediterranean Sea, and I read this portion that was for that week.  And it just seemed like there was a special Anointing on the atmosphere as I read through these Scriptures.  I felt the Lord, by the Spirit, giving me understanding on just little minute details.

It seemed like the whole portion that week became a revelation that I could apply to my life.  You have to . . . you have to approach this by the Spirit.  If you don’t approach it by the Spirit, you’re going to reap flesh.  You’re only going to get details that seem dull.  But if you approach it by the Spirit . . .

Perhaps you’d just even pray, offer a little prayer, and say, “Lord, as I approach Your Word, open it up to me.  Let me understand it in a way that I’ve never understood it before.  Let me apply it.  It seems like this dusty record of Your dealings with the children of Israel . . . perhaps it seems a little hard for me to relate to it.  So, open it up to me.  Let my spirit be open to it and receive whatever it is that You would want to speak to me from this portion.

The portion this week is “Beha’alot’cha.”  And it means . . . the translation is “when you set up.”  The literal meaning is a little bit different.  But it comes from these first few verses of Numbers, chapter 8.

It speaks about going up and lighting the Menorah.  This candlestick is the Menorah.  Now you know we have two different Menorahs.  We have the Menorah like was used in the Mishkan, which is the Tabernacle.  It’s similar to the design of what was used in the Temple.

And then we have the Hanukkiah, (plural – Hanukkium) which is the extra branches to commemorate the days that God multiplied the one day’s portion of oil in the rededication of the Temple.

When we read . . .  Let’s just do that for a moment.  Let’s look at Revelation, chapter 1.  Because when we read Revelation, chapter 1 . . . we look at chapter 1 and chapter 2 . . . we’re not looking at a Hanukkiah.  We’re looking at the Menorah as it was designed by God given through Instruction to Moses and then designed and made according to this pattern.

And we have had a great understanding given to us by the prophet to this generation concerning this Menorah, this seven-branched candlestick.  

If you will look in Revelation, chapter 1.  And if you turn there, it will . . .  It will be good.

Verse 1.

1.  The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Messiah), which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And then it goes all the way through this description of the glory of the Messiah as He appeared to John - this manifestation of His glory.

And verse 4 said,

4.  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Now if you skip down a little bit, in verse 8 Yeshua speaks.

8.  I am Alpha and Omega, (the first and the last letter of the Greek alphabet.  And since we know that Yeshua did not speak Greek, then we know that He never declared Himself to be the Alpha and the Omega.  But He would have used the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.)

8.  . . . which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Verse 10.  

10.  I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a (what?) trumpet,

Now it’s important to notice “trumpet.”  And the reason why is because it’s going to be significant in the portion this week.  God is going to give specific instructions concerning the making of two very special trumpets.  We call them the two silver trumpets.

There’s one thing to notice about these trumpets – several things that we’ll mention perhaps in a moment.

But God has two specific instruments that He has ordained in keeping these appointments, these Moedim.  And these are:  

1.  An instrument that is made from the horn of a ram, and it is called a shofar.  It’s a hollowed-out horn.  And you’ve seen them enough to know what they are.

This was an instrument of God.  It was God’s instrument.  He chose it.  But then He chose that the congregation would have an instrument.  He has an instrument.  And when that shofar sounds, it is a symbol of the Voice of God speaking.  It’s God’s instrument. He expresses Himself through the tones and the sounds of the shofar.

2.  But He gave the people an instrument.  He said, “I want you to craft, to make out of single pieces of silver, silver trumpets - two of them.”  And this was an instrument that God gave to the people, to the congregation.  And it was for the use of the congregation.  

So the shofar is God’s instrument.  The two trumpets were the instruments of the congregation.  And any time we hear a trumpet, we know that it signifies to us, both in the Old Testament and the New, a voice.

And so when we hear that Scripture, “When the last trump of God shall sound . . . ,” we know that it is most likely in the natural sense of the word not a trumpet like a bugle, but a trumpet meaning a voice – a voice that sounds.

Now that doesn’t mean that there will not be a natural blast of a trumpet.  I believe there will be simply because it’s going to take place during the fall feast.  It’s going to take place during the time of Succot, during the fall feast - the sounding of the shofar, the sounding of the trumpets, we should say, at the Feast of Trumpets.

But the trumpet, as it sounds . . . it will only be heard wherever the trumpet is being sounded – Jerusalem.  You’re not going to hear that trumpet all over the world, but you’re going to hear the Voice.  The Voice is already gathering the Bride of Messiah together - right now.  That’s taking place.  

So there will be a literal trumpet sound, perhaps, because it’s going to be during the time that the trumpets would be sounded anyway.  But the Voice of God speaking to His people by the Holy Ghost in this hour . . . that’s what gathers us together unto Him.

And since He is not here in physical form, how are we gathered to Him?  We are gathered to His Word.  The Voice calls us to the Word of God.  And when we gather around His Word and we cling to His Word, then we’re . . . in essence, we’re being gathered unto Him.

Let’s read a little more.

10.  . . . and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Verse 12.

12.  And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.

Again a little bit strange language.  He turned to see the Voice.

12.  . . . And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

Now how many of you know he didn’t see seven separate individual golden candlesticks.  Now you know that.  But did you know we didn’t really . . . perhaps scholars maybe did, but it wasn’t taught in the general population of Pentecost.  I think in our minds . . . I’ve even seen pictures of seven golden candlesticks with beautiful white candles in them that John saw.

But of course, he didn’t see it that way.  What he saw was the Menorah.  So the very same thing . . .  God gave Moses Instructions to give to Aaron concerning how the Menorah was to be lit.  And this same Menorah was shown to John on the Isle of Patmos.

Verse 13.

13.  And in the midst (which means in the middle of) of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

And here we get that great explanation, a description of what He looked like.

Verse 16.

16.  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

We remember from the “Revelation of Jesus Christ” series, from the Church Age book, how Brother Branham took time to teach us about the Menorah - the seven branches of the Menorah.

In John, chapter 15, Yeshua said, “I am the vine, you are the branches.”  Anybody understand?  “I am the vine, you are the branches.”

What do you get in your mind?  You see a morning glory vine or a honeysuckle vine.  You see some kind of vine - a sweet potato vine or ivy of some kind.  Perhaps this is a good thing for us to see.

But symbolically we know by what the prophet Isaiah said and also Zechariah said concerning these branches that Yeshua was using a two-fold . . . I’ll get it in a moment . . . a two-fold analogy.  He was talking about a natural vine, no doubt, that has many different runners.  I don’t know if I’d call them branches or not.  But it has many different runners.  

But we believe after studying what the Old Testament prophet said that Yeshua was also saying, “I am in the middle of the Menorah.  I am that middle part.  You are the branches that make up the Menorah.”

Now somebody said, “Why is that significant?”  It’s significant because Brother Branham, without studying the language or emphasizing study of the Torah, he picked that up in the Spirit.  And he explained to us that here is Jesus, Messiah, standing in the middle of this . . . not seven separate candlesticks . . . but in the middle of this Menorah.

And he said, “These branches . . .”  Because that’s what they’re called.  “These branches represented the seven church ages.” And where was Yeshua?  Right in the middle of the churches.  He was in the middle of the churches.

And tonight, I want you to know something.  Although we believe that the Bride of Messiah has been called out of Laodicea . . . and we see Laodicea.  We can’t help but see it everywhere we go.  Everything we hear testifies of the corruptness, and the spiritual coldness, and the blindness, and the nakedness of Laodicea.

But as the Bride of Yeshua, we don’t feel naked.  I don’t feel naked.  I don’t feel cold.  I don’t feel blind.  Because I believe I’ve been dressed in the wedding garment.  And when you’re dressed in the wedding garment of His revealed Word . . .  That’s what Brother Branham said the wedding garment was.  It was the revealed Word of God.

When you wrap that around your shoulders, you’re not naked - you’re covered.  You’re covered with great apostolic authority.  You are covered.  

When we were preaching in Jerusalem a few services back, I spent the entire time speaking on the three anointings of David and eventually, the last weekend, teaching on the holy anointing oil.

And you heard those sermons years ago, but there are some nuggets and truths that are even more relevant today than they were then.  Because we know some things that we didn’t know then.  And we can see some symbols now that we didn’t see then.

But I was preaching on the ministry that the Bride has of prophet, king and priest - a little different order - prophet, king and priest.

And there was a wonderful Anointing there that morning.  I think it was a Shabbat morning.  There was a wonderful Anointing there that morning.  And I just sensed in the Spirit and began to see in the Spirit those beautiful robes of authority, those beautiful robes of authority that are placed on the king.

You know the king doesn’t even dress himself.  He has somebody, a chamberlain, standing near to change his robes, to put his robes on him.  He may . . . he might, perhaps, be resourceful enough to put on his undergarment, his cloak, or whatever it was, but when he gets ready to sit on the throne there’s someone standing by to lay this heavy wrap on his shoulders.

Some of you can see it in your mind – fir, lots of fir on the collar, and lots of velvet hanging down.

And I saw in the Spirit these garments, just like this, beginning to come down over the little place where we were gathered.  And I saw them as they were enfolding and wrapping around the saints of God.

And the Lord was speaking to me and saying that it’s time that we take those garments, that we wear them, that we begin to recognize our authority as kings of the Kingdom.

That word “Kingdom.”  That’s another story.  That word “Kingdom” is so misapplied and misused in Christianity because we’re looking for the “Kingdom.”  You shouldn’t be looking for the Kingdom.  The Kingdom is with us.  The truth of the Messiah, the truth that Yeshua spoke, that is the Kingdom.

And we can show you that all through the New Testament where He talks about the Kingdom.  The Kingdom has come.  “Thy Kingdom come.  Thy will be done.”

There’s other places.  Even the psalmist David knew that the Kingdom of God was on the earth when Messiah came because he talked about Him making the earth His footstool.  And a king sits on this beautiful throne, props his feet up on a footstool and is waited on.

And it speaks about authority.  And remember that with any authority God-given comes great responsibility.  And that’s what has me so serious in this hour . . . is the responsibility that comes with authority, the responsibility that God is placing on our shoulders as keepers of the royal flame, the responsibility that God is placing on our shoulders as those who keep the Truth, who watch over the Truth, who guard the Truth.

Did you know you have a very similar job to that angel that was given charge of the Garden of Eden.  We talked about it Sunday.  I spent a portion of time in the afternoon reading some of these things that Brother Branham said about the Garden of Eden and about these two trees.

He made an interesting supposition.  He said . . . he said, “I wouldn’t be surprised, or there’s a possibility that these trees . . .” so for those of you who don’t think there was a literal tree, listen carefully.

He said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if these trees didn’t sit so close in the Garden that their branches intertwined.”  Now that’s heavy duty.  I’ve not gotten that off my mind now in two days.  “Intertwined, much like today,” he said.  

Can you think of all the things that have been spoken, that are relevant to that picture, if you can see those trees with their branches?  Why, he talked about the genuine . . . the real and the imitation, the genuine and the counterfeit, being so close together you’d hardly be able to tell them apart.  In fact, so close that only the Bride . . .

This is why you need to know who you are.  Only the Bride is going to be able to clearly distinguish and differentiate between the true and the imitation.  

You see, Brother Branham said, “Every revival produces twins.”  Think about all these different analogies.  Think about how he said how similar the tare looks to the wheat.  He was agriculturally correct.  Because history tells us that the botany of the Bible times . . . that in the study of botany of Bible times that there were not one but several weeds that grew.

And today, you can see them.  I’ve seen them today in Israel – weeds that grow up and look so similar to wheat.  They set their heads like wheat.  They put their seed . . .  You know they set their seed on top, their little beard and the seed, and the little tassel on the top  - just like wheat.

And the difference cannot be noticed or distinguished until harvest time.  At harvest time, that little weed shrivels and the wheat shines.  The wheat gets golden and it shines.  But the little weed begins to shrivel because he’s only a bluff.  He looks the same, he talks the same, but he’s like Judas.

The prophet said about Judas that he saw all the miracles.  Don’t you believe . . .?  I hope you believe, surely you believe, we don’t have any reason in the Bible to believe that Judas was not right in the middle of these miracles.  Perhaps he even performed a few of them himself.  We have no reason to believe that he wasn’t right in the middle of everything that was going on in the ministry of Jesus until harvest time, until the end.

And do you know what Brother Branham said?  How many of you remember what he said about Judas?  He said, “It wasn’t until Shavuot . . .”  He didn’t say Shavuot, he said Pentecost.  “It wasn’t until Pentecost that Judas showed his true colors.”

Now that sounds strange because the Day of Pentecost happened fifty days after the resurrection.  Judas has already betrayed the Lord, and he has already hung himself.  So we have to look at it spiritually.

It was the aliyah toward Pentecost.  It was the going up toward Pentecost that Judas couldn’t handle, not the Day of Pentecost itself - it happened after his death.  But God was about to move the talmudim.  He was about to move the disciples from this place of listening and practicing and trying to live the life.  He was about to give them power to do what He had done.

In fact . . .  If you’re not too bored, let me say this.  In our portion for this week, you’ll read about God’s promise to Moses.  His father Jethro was a heathen according to the standards of the God of Israel.  But careful study tells us he was a priest of Midian.  He was not only a heathen, but he was a priest in a false religion, a pagan religion.

And God redeemed him - so much so that in our portion, Moses, under the inspiration of God, invited Jethro to come and be an Israelite.  I’m glad he did because that is a . . . it’s a type, it’s a principle, of you and I being invited in.

The discussion was going on Sunday . . . (Please don’t let me forget where I’m going.)  I’m going to talk about “seventy” in just a minute.  The discussion went on Sunday concerning this Jewish tradition, rabbinical tradition, of a Jew only being a Jew if his mother is a Jew.  And it’s been believed that way so long in Judaism that some people don’t even really agree on how it started.  And someone spoke up and said, “You know if that was the case (Daniel, I think, maybe) . . . if that was the case, then there would be trouble even in the lineage of the Messiah because Ruth was not a Jewess.  Ruth was a Moabitish woman.)  She was a Moabite.

But the Jewish people have an explanation for absolutely almost everything.  And they see her as a beautiful type of a convert.  And that’s what she was.  They’re right.  Because remember she said to Naomi, “Wherever you go, I will go.  Your God will be my God.”  

Do you understand what that meant?  It meant that everything she had ever known as a child, and every god that had ever been worshipped in her home, and every ritual that she had ever carried out in her life, she was finished with it.  She was going to cling - not only to Naomi, but she was going to cling to the God of Israel.  The smartest thing she ever did in her life.

And God so loved her and cherished her and saw that faith that was in her, that He made a way for her to be redeemed and brought into the family of Israel through Boaz, the second relation from her.  There was one closer, but he wasn’t willing to pay the price and fit the bill.

So it became the joy of Boaz.  I’ve heard it preached that it was his responsibility.  He had the choice that the first fellow had.  He could have rejected it.  He could have said, “There’s no way in the world that I’m going to redeem a Moabitish woman - not this woman who has worshipped false gods.  I’m not going to put my name on her.”

But, instead, he made a choice that he would redeem her from all of her pagan ways and bring her into the family of God to serve the God of Israel – a kinsman redeemer.

And that’s what happened in my case and your case.  I sure enjoyed reading the Book of Ruth.  I stayed up a good portion of the night reading the whole Book of Ruth because that’s what the Jewish people do on Erev Shavuot.  They read the entire Book of Ruth, and they remember the grace of God that is shown to these converts.

Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, though he was a priest of Midian, he was a wise man.  And he said to Moses, “You’re wearing yourself down because you’re taking the burden of all the people on your shoulder.”  And he said, “You need to do something about it.”

And you know what?  It wasn’t Jethro that had the solution, it was God.  God spoke and said that “you’re going to take and choose seventy men.”  And God didn’t say, “I’m going to put My Spirit in these seventy men.”

Read it.  It’s in your portion.  He said, “Moses, I’m going to take ‘your’ spirit and I’m going to put it on these seventy men.”  And you know what happened?  The Bible said that Moses was the most humble man that had ever lived.

We know by the Spirit that Moses was a prophet.  The Bible tells us both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament that Moses was a prophet, and a great prophet, because God not only spoke to him of the future, He spoke to him of the past.  And He not only spoke to him of future and past, He spoke to him of God’s present desire.  What God wanted for that moment He revealed to Moses.  That made him a great prophet.

Other prophets spoke about the sins of the past, prophesied about the sins of the future, but Moses was not only able to talk about the past and the future, he was able to know the mind of God for now.  That’s good.

And no wonder the Bible tells us that “I’m going to give you a prophet like unto Moses.”  And that was Yeshua - not Brother Branham – Yeshua.  “I’m going to give you a prophet like unto Moses, one who would know the future, know the past and know the now.

God said, “I’m going to take the spirit that’s on Moses and place it upon . . .  I mean, don’t think that Moses lost anything.  Moses didn’t stand empty.  God just took of the greatness of His spirit and distributed it to seventy different men who had been called by the Spirit, been called out by the Word of the Lord, to come and gather near the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

And guess what happened?  Read it.  Because of the greatness of the calling and the gifting of prophecy, a prophet, that was in Moses’ life, these seventy men began to prophesy.  

This was not after the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost was given.  This was before the Holy Ghost had been poured out.  But there was something so great in Moses this great Spirit of Almighty God placed in him.

And think about where he had to come from to get to this greatness.  He had to be first nothing, a prey, a hunted animal.  He started out a few days old, a hunted animal.  He almost became crocodile food.  But God redeemed him.  He used this daughter of Pharaoh to draw him out.  That’s how he got his name Moshe – “to be drawn out.”

He was drawn out of the river and reared in the schools of Egypt.  He was an expert in Egyptology.  He knew the ins and outs of living in Egypt, the history of Egypt.  And he could have taught it because it was ingrained in him.

And look at all he went through.  He found out and understood and received that he was a Hebrew and these were his people.  And in anger, he rose up and killed one of the taskmasters.  And then he had to run.  And again he has gone from being something . . .  He was a nothing.  He was a hermit in the wilderness.

So I want you to know great things God has for us in our lives.  We’ll never be able to be used in great ways unless we experience a lot of things.  Just think about all the stuff that you’ve had to know.  Think about all the stuff that you’ve had to experience in your life to be where you are today – a  vessel that God can use.

Now could He use us more?  Could we be more useable?  Sure, we could.  But are we more useable now than we were some time back?  Sure, we are.  And you know why?  Because of stuff . . . That’s how Moses came to this place.

Sure, first it was God’s election, predestination – His calling, His choice.  And then he spent this schooling.  And it wasn’t his schooling in Egypt that prepared him to be a voice for God.  It was the school of hard knocks that prepared him to be this voice for God.

So God takes this spirit that’s on Moses, He multiplies it upon seventy men and they begin to prophesy.  And there’s two of these fellers that were a little late getting up to the Mishkan.  They didn’t make it up to the anointing service.  They were down at the camp.  On their way . . . They were really trying to get there, but they were having a bad tunic day, and they couldn’t get their tunic adjusted just right perhaps.

And they hadn’t made it up yet.  Well, Moses didn’t wait for anybody because God doesn’t like to wait either.  So this glory just came.  God took the spirit and placed it on these men.  And there were two down there that were called that didn’t make it up in time.

And guess what the Bible said?  

(I know you haven’t read the portion.  I’m looking at you, and I know you haven’t read it because you look like I’m telling you a story you’ve never heard before.  That look on your face, your blankness, betrays you.  You haven’t read it.  So go home tonight and read it.)

These two fellows . . . they began to prophesy in the camp.  They hadn’t even made it up to the anointing service, but they began to prophesy in the camp.  

And it’s just like the disciples in the New Testament . . .  (See all these parallels?) . . . that ran up and said, “Why, they’re over there casting out devils in Your Name.  They’re over there prophesying in Your Name.”

I would to God that all of His servants were prophets – that they all prophesied.

They went and told Moses . . . said, “You know, James and John, or whatever . . . .”  (Those were nice Greek names.)  Whatever, yeah . . .  They’re down there, and they began to prophesy.  And they weren’t even up here in the anointing service.

And they really thought Moses was going to get on to them.  But you know what?  He so appreciated what God had just done in placing this gift on seventy men to lead the congregation of Israel that he had no complaints.  “I wished every one of you were prophets.  I wished the same anointing would fall on all of you.” That’s what Moses had to say about it.

Isn’t that nice?  I like that.  I like how God does things like that.  I like how He can take the anointing . . .

And you know what?  Nobody could serve in the ministry like those seventy men.  There was no problem with them being in unity with Moses because God took from him and gave them a part of his spirit.  And having a part of his spirit, they prophesied in the same authority that he prophesied in.  They had the same goal, the same vision, the same purpose.  

My, what was accomplished.  Well, I’ll tell you what was accomplished.  A nation was preserved that lives today, that flourishes today, that survives today, because of what God did.  And God set an example that guarded and guided Israel for thousands of years.

And guess what, brother, sister?  In your day, in your day . . . what God started in the day of Moses, in your day is happening again.

“What do you mean?”  Seventy men.  It was the beginning of the Sanhedrin.  Jewish people believe, in studying, that there was hardly a time, except in exile, from that moment on that there were not seventy men chosen to lead and guide the nation.

We know about it in the New Testament, and it’s called the Sanhedrin.  For hundreds and hundreds of years now, Israel, the Jewish people, have been without a Sanhedrin.  But in our time a few months ago they met together and appointed men to lead the nation of Israel in spiritual authority - a new Sanhedrin.

And while we were in Israel this time, they did something that hadn’t been done in over a thousand years or more.  They appointed the chief of the Sanhedrin.  They appointed him.  He’s in place.  And they’re meeting together on a regular basis.

Right now Israel is governed by a Knesset, but it’s only a matter of time before God’s established way of leading the nation is turned back over to His established way – a  Sanhedrin.  And it’s already in action right now, just ready for God.

Oh, first the government has to crumble.  But that’s on the way.  And the only way something like that could be tolerated is for God to send a revival of His Spirit among the younger generation of Israelis and cause them to be more observant and more religious.  And that’s what’s happening right now.

I’m not talking about a revival of bringing them to Yeshua because that day is promised for a little bit down the road.  But I’m talking about a revival to bring them back to the roots of their faith, to Judaism, and get them excited about serving the God of Israel.

And with a new generation of people excited about serving the God of Israel, they’ll have no problems being governed and led by a Sanhedrin.

God is setting everything in order - oh, so meticulously, so beautiful.  Last year if we would have preached about this, we couldn’t have told the testimony of what God has done.  But now this year, a few months later, we can tell it.

And now, while we were in Israel this time, the Chief has been appointed to lead.  You can go on the Internet and read his biography, read about him, read about his accomplishments.

That doesn’t mean that these are the ones that God’s going to have in place.  It just means the concept has been revived for such a time as this.  My, if that don’t excite you, I don’t know what you spend your time doing.  I don’t know what you spend your time doing if that doesn’t somehow excite you.  Oh, hallelujah.

So now, quickly, as time flees away.  I want you to see again . . .  Yeshua says, “I am the vine, you are the branches.”  I want you to see in the Spirit what John saw on the Isle of Patmos - the Messiah - hair like wool, feet like brass, eyes like fire, standing in the middle of this seven golden candlestick, in the midst of His Church.

And that’s where He is today.  I started out by saying we don’t really believe that we’re living in Laodicea anymore.  We believe we’re coming into a Bride Age.  Although we see Laodicea around us, we’re hearing a trumpet.  We’re gathering to the Word.  Something’s happening on the inside of us that causes us, hopefully, to be more molded and more shaped to the image that we were created to have in the beginning.

Like our father, Adam, who was made in the image and the likeness of God, who had the mind of God, who had creative power like God, who spoke the Word like God.  And we’re coming back into a time just like that.

I see it.  You know this picture . . . we have it somewhere . . . of this Menorah and these faces of these seven messengers . . .  And right over the Menorah is the Hoffman’s head of Christ.  It was painted by an artist in South Africa.  You can see so clearly what God has done.  He didn’t leave the churches.  He was right in the midst of these ages.

And where do you think He is?  Well, I know where He is.  He’s with His Bride.

Now, there’s so much.  My, my, my, in these few verses there is so much that could be said.  In Hebrew, it talks about, in the passage that I read, how the Menorah was to be lit.  God even had a design for how the Menorah was to be lit.  And that’s why He told them “toward the face of the Menorah,” because there are three wicks on the left and three wicks on the right and a wick in the middle.

And the wick in the middle represents Messiah.  And God told Moses to tell Aaron, “When you light it, these three over here, these here, must be lit toward the middle.”  Light these here toward the middle.  The wicks should be pointing toward the middle.

In the design of the Menorah, it’s not like the Hanukkiah that has the shamash, the servant, up higher than the rest.  In the design of the Menorah in the Temple, they’re all level across - seven hollow tubes that were made for oil.  The tubes were pure solid gold.  They were filled with oil, and a wick was placed in this tube of special oil.

And the wick was to be pointing toward the middle.  Although it wasn’t any higher, it was to be the focus point.  Even when God was putting the Tabernacle, the Mishkan, together, even in the candlestick, even in the Menorah, He was showing the light, the importance of the Messiah.

And do you know, we are this Menorah?  We are these branches.  He is in the midst of us.  We are these branches.  God has placed His Menorah spiritually . . .  It’s His Body.  And everything we do, and everything we say, and how we live our lives . . . we must be pointed toward the One in the middle.  We’re not bearing our own identity.  We’re not sharing our own roots, our own heritage, our own history.  We’re here to represent one thing and one thing only – the light of the Messiah.  Oh, hallelujah.  There’s some wonderful things.    

Let me speak for just a moment about these two silver trumpets.  We’ll be through by nine, God willing.  

Look at Numbers, chapter 10.  How could you ever preach eight, nine, ten . . . doesn’t it go on even into eleven?  Or just ten?  How could you ever express . . .?  It went up to twelve.  How could you ever express all the things?  You never could.  You just have to take portions.  That’s why you could read these portions every year and emphasize a little something different and never get tired of it if you’ve got a hunger.

Chapter 10, verse 1.

1.  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2.  Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

3.  And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

4.  And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

5.  When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

6.  When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

7.  But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

8.  And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.

You can go and continue reading another time.  It’s an interesting thing, because remember the shofar was God’s instrument.  The trumpets was the instrument given to the people.

And if you read . . . especially if you should break this down into Hebrew, you would find out that each of these calls and alarms were different tonations of blowing the trumpet - a long sound, followed by a short sound, followed by a staccato - all kinds of different tones, calls and alarms to gather the people.  If there was one sound, the princes, the leaders, the priests should come.

If it was two, then it was a note that all of the congregation of Israel should be gathered together.  That’s unity.  Everybody . . .  Everybody should come together and hear the sounds.

And notice something else in reading that.  This is to be an ordinance.  This is to be something that should be among you throughout your generations forever.  

When the Lord first sent us to Israel, especially to Jerusalem, and God began to reveal . . .  It started one morning laying in my bed.  When I woke up earlier than anybody else laying there in the bed, I knew something was happening supernaturally because in the Spirit . . .  It doesn’t make sense to describe it in English.  But in the Spirit, I knew that all of Israel and all of the Jewish nation from eternity to eternity was passing over my body.

I was laying there.  It’s not the first time I’ve shared this.  I was laying there, and I felt all of Israel and all the nation of Jewish people from eternity to eternity passing over me.  And when it finished . . .  It was a burden, an impact.

When it was finished, I just felt different.  I felt like my focus was changed.  Not to alarm you in what I’m saying, but I just felt Jewish.  I felt identified with the Jewish people like I never had felt before.

It was that morning that I got up out of bed . . . I don’t remember if anybody else stirred . . . I went into the den, and I turned on the computer to pull in my e-mail.  And there was an e-mail from Sister Nancy.  And she said, in bold letters, “If you’re not sitting down, maybe you should sit down to read this.”

I was sitting down so I continued to read.  And she said, “God has laid it on my heart that you should take this ministry in Jerusalem and lead it.”

It’s not by coincidence.  I wasn’t even shocked.  It’s not by coincidence that it was the same morning that God prepared me before the responsibility ever hit me.  And it’s only been two years.  And there’s been several times in two years I’ve been ready to bail out.  But God keeps saying . . .

Seeing the strain that it was on my family going two times to Israel for six weeks – each twelve weeks within three-month period – and seeing the strain and toll that it took.  I was ready to bail out.

Being gathered on occasion with eight people, perhaps eleven, in a little basement, I’ve been ready to bail out.  And God keeps reminding me of several things.  

One, He keeps saying to me, “Keep sowing.  Keep sowing.”  I mentioned that already, didn’t I?

The other thing He keeps saying is, “Don’t despise the day of small things.”

And the third thing that He keeps putting in my spirit is Brother Branham saying that when Isaiah made his prophecy - “a virgin, a maiden, shall conceive and bring forth a son” . . .  And Brother Branham said every little young virgin girl got out her knitting needles and began to knit little booties for that Messiah.  Because no one knew who she would be.  And everyone thought and knew that there was potential, and even a possibility, she might be the one.  So she just started knitting booties.  

Messiah wouldn’t need any booties for seven hundred years.  I doubt scarcely that any of those booties survived seven hundred years.  But those little maiden girls . . . they grew up to be mothers of Israel.  And they birthed both sons and daughters.  Ben Tzion and Bat Zion, sons and daughters of Zion - each one.

And every time a daughter of Zion was born, her mother would take out those knitting hooks, so to speak, and make sure that her daughter knew how to knit little booties.  Because He hadn’t come yet, but the prophet Isaiah said He was coming.  This might be the generation.

And when that little girl grew up, she married.  She became a mother in Zion.  She had sons and daughters in Zion.  She took her little daughter aside.  And for seven hundred years, fourteen generations, perhaps this was passed along until one day a little girl named Miriam was the one.  She might have even knitted booties herself, but didn’t know for sure, had no idea, until the Angel of the Lord showed up one day.  “Blessed art you.  Blessed you are among women.”

And God keeps saying, “Just knit the booties.  Keep sowing.  Don’t despise the day of small things and keep knitting booties because one day the promise is going to be fruit.  The type, the shadow, is going to be reality, and God’s going to bring revival – great, great revival to that Land and to those people.  And you have a part of it.

Brother Greeley had been in Israel in September of 2002.  Or October?  Was it a little of both?  End of September, first of October of 2002?  But he hadn’t been since we had the apartments.  And he, like so many of the rest of you, have been faithful every month to give for those apartments.

And he said something like this when we first got there.  Of course, he was, I think . . . he was taken by the niceness, the convenience, the beauty of these apartments - how convenient they are, what a wonderful neighborhood they’re in.  And every need is provided, met.  Everything’s there that could be needed.  And how God did it . . .  How He provided for the appliances through another country - people gave and the appliances were bought.  

And you’ve given so that the rent and the arnona and the maintenance fees and the utilities can be paid.  And how we were able, free of charge, to keep this furniture that belonged to the Mormons . . .  

And then when it came time that they finally wanted to come get it, they sold it to us for a tenth of the cost.  And now both . . .  And when we were doing without a few things, a prayer ministry on Mount Zion closed down and loaned us all of their stuff.  So we have . . .  Mostly everything is ours except a few things that were loaned to us that we really don’t have to have right now at the time.

Not one keyboard, two keyboards . . .  Every need and more . . .  And to be able to see the fruit of that faithful giving and what God is doing . . .  And to keep your focus on the fruit that’s coming, the harvest that’s coming, and not the time of small sowings, and so forth . . .

It’s a wonderful thing.  I’m so sorry for anybody that can’t see where we are.  I’m so sorry for anybody that’s so caught up in their own life that in God’s great big economy is a pin-head.  You know, we’re just, our existence is a . . .  (This sounds like Kary.  Forgive me.)  What are we?  We’re just a pinhead on the map of God’s economy so to speak.  

(Oh, what I meant was he’s often preaching . . . and the one thing you have to say about him is he makes you think.  He uses some interesting analogies and illustrations and what if’s.)

And that’s what we are.  We’re just a dot.  Our life, our problems, our situations are just one little dot in God’s great big economy.  And yet, He’s in charge of it all.  He’s not only guiding a people back to a Promised Land, but He’s guiding you and I to our place of maturity and perfection.  And He’s taking care of all of us.

And when you get a headache, He hears your call.  And if you’re faithful to keep His Commandments, He blesses you.  And I want to tell you . . . you . . . some of you, especially those of you who are keeping God’s Commandments the best you can, you should begin to experience some good things - soon.

Because when we were in Israel . . . I mentioned this.  (And I’m closing.  How could I?  I’m not nearly through.)  I had a desire to go to Beth-el, Bethel.  And I had a desire to go to Shiloh.  Bethel?  Why would you want to go to Bethel?  

Well, that’s where this whole thing started.  That’s where God met Ya’akov - Jacob.  Put a ladder down from heaven.  Angels going up and down that ladder.  He made his pillar a stone.  He wrestled with the Lord.  You know the story.

He got up with a dislocated hip.  His name was changed.  Not only his walking pattern, his name was changed.  His life, his destiny, was changed forevermore.  He was no longer a supplanter, but his loins brought forth what we see today.  And I wanted to get as close to that as I could.

We couldn’t actually go to the ruins of ancient Beth-el because it’s in the middle of an Arab village in the heart of the West Bank.  But we drove up through the new settlement, the Jewish settlement of Beth-el, overlooking the Arab community where the old city was.  And getting there we drove right past Ai.  Remember Joshua and how God gave the victory?  And we drove right past that little place.  

I wanted to go to Shiloh because that’s where the Ark of the Covenant sat for 650 years as a testimony of God’s faithfulness.  We stood just a few feet from where Eli, the high priest, was buried.  We stepped into an ancient synagogue where Hannah had prayed for a child, and God had given her Samuel.  

I had a desire to go up to Mount Gerazim.  Remember the Bible talks about two mountains – Mount Ebal, Mount Gerazim.  The Mount of Blessing - Gerazim.  The Mount of Cursing - Ebal.

God said to the people, “When you get into the Land, I want you to go and stand one congregation on one mountain, one congregation on . . . one part of the congregation on one mountain, one part of the congregation on the other mountain.  And we’re going to read the blessings and the cursings.  You can read it for yourself.

And sure enough, when they got in, they obeyed the Word of the Lord.  They divided the congregation.  And these blessings were pronounced over those who keep the Covenant - blessings upon those who honor the Commandments, who desire to walk in what God wants you to walk in.  

When I say Commandments, you wither.  You can see it, sometimes.  What are you afraid of?  We understand that a portion of the Commandments are not for you.  A portion of the Commandments cannot be kept whether you are Jew or Gentile because there is no Temple.  

But everybody can honor their mother and their father.  Everybody can honor the Sabbath day.  No reason why anybody can’t give God some reverence on the Sabbath day.  You can do it if you want to.  No reason why you don’t have to have . . . you just must have a ham sandwich, or a lobster tail.  You can eat like God tells you to eat and reject animals that were never created for food.

You can treat your brother right.  God gives you the outlines.  You can pay tithes in the proper way that they should be paid.  There are so many things that God has given us that we can easily be a part of.  You may not have a big enough garden that you actually can have a row of corn and a row of beans.  I don’t think God’s going to come down and crush any Gentile who has a tomato bush growing next to a squash plant.

But I think there are so many of those Commandments that Christian people have ignored and mainly how we deal with people – honesty and integrity, weighing things according to a proper weight, not cheating one another and even the world, keeping our temper in check, watching the words of our mouth.  

Oh, my.  There’s a blessing pronounced on those who keep the Covenant and the Commandments.  And God said, “I want to make this real for you.  Half of you get over here, half of you get over there, and let this be read in the middle.  Let these words go out.”

And you know, we drove up on the Mount Gerazim right in the middle of the West Bank looking down over the modern city of Nablus.  Anybody who reads the newspaper knows that Nablus . . .  In fact, the day before we were there and the day we were there, they set off fire bombs in Nablus, just right down from where we were.

One of the leaders was assassinated.  One of the Palestinian leaders was assassinated by a Palestinian right there at the foot of the hill.  At the foot of the hill is Jacob’s Well and Joseph’s Tomb.  The Arabs have destroyed and desecrated the tomb of Joseph.  It’s been one of the holiest places of the Jews to go and pray.  

And they burned it and shattered it and tossed . . .  Just a few months ago, I think it was.  Perhaps the end of . . . sometime last year . . . totally desecrated the tomb of Joseph.  And, of course, there was nothing that could be done.

We wound our way up to the top of Mount Gerazim and passed through the Samaritan village where the Samaritans live - Samaritans.  Remember that little woman at the well?  She was a Samaritan.  And there’s only a few left in the world.  A little over . . .  Some say six hundred, and some say twelve hundred.  Less than two thousand living in Israel, and a few scattered.

They’re displaced Jews who don’t claim to be Jews.  Their lineage they trace to Jethro.  They believe that they’re descendents of Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, who was a Midianite but converted.  They still slay the lamb on Passover.  They use the ancient Hebrew alphabet.  They have an unusual religion, unusual dress.

And we drove right up there.  And when we got all the way up to the top where the ruins that were built on top of Mount Gerazim . . . and it was locked up.  And there were two young boys standing there.  I don’t know if they were Arabs or if they were Samaritans.  But they were standing there.

And we were so disappointed.  I wanted to go up to the top to look out over Nablus.  And they could see that we were disappointed.  And they said, “We’ll show you a way in.”  And they took us where the fence had been pulled down.  And we climbed over the fence and went in.

I could easily do that because I have a parks card and that gives me access to every park.  So I knew I wasn’t cheating anybody.  Perhaps it was not the best thing to go in like that, but I knew I had paid to go in.  I wasn’t stealing anything from anybody.

And we went in.  And if we‘d have had time . . .  And it was amazing, the ruins that were there.  But we went all the way to the top, and we were able to look across that valley where the Bible said that Abraham had his first look of the Promised Land.  I saw the same valley that Abraham saw when he stepped into that Land.  And I could look across to Mount Ebal.

And as I was coming down climbing . . .  It was quite a maneuver to get down through the way we were climbing.  He let us in.  We gave him a few shekels.  He let us in, let us out.  

And as I was coming down, I just had to decree and declare a blessing on all of those who keep the Covenant and the Commandments all over the world.  And you know, it was just a quick thing.  But all the way down the mountain, it impacted me.  I thought, “My, look what a powerful thing it was when it happened in the Bible - when a blessing was pronounced over the Covenant-keepers on Mount Gerazim.”

And I pronounced that same kind of blessing, in His Name, in His authority (I’m a nobody), over those who at least endeavor to try to please God, to raise their children in a God-fearing, God-pleasing manner - to teach their children the ways of God so that when they stray, they know the way that’s right.

Do you know how important that is?  So that when they stray, they’ll know the way back to God.  It’s very important.  

Now to summarize and close.

These two silver trumpets . . . all the detail.  I have loads of Scriptures I would have shared if I hadn’t have run my mouth on so many other subjects.  When these things began to transpire, and I first took the ministry, Sister Nancy felt impressed in her spirit to have . . . to take some money from her inheritance and have two silver trumpets made.

And she made contact through a Jewish man, Moshe Rosenshine, and he had these trumpets, two silver trumpets, made.  And she said . . . she had it made, one representing the Jerusalem ministry, one representing the Alabama ministry.  And they hang crossed like they were carried.  That’s how they were displayed and carried.  

We know that from the Arch of Titus.  If you’ve ever seen a picture of the Arch of Titus in Rome . . .  I’ve not only seen a picture, I’ve been there.  You’ll see the beautiful Menorah being carried out by Titus and his armies.  You’ll see the silver trumpets in a stand being carried out crossed.  

And those silver trumpets hang in that little basement chapel.  And when we were at Nashishibi Street and we had somebody who could blow the trumpets, we would often blow them in the service.  Jonathan has blowed one of them before with someone else who could blow those silver trumpets - one representing the Jerusalem ministry and one representing the Alabama ministry.

These are prophetic acts and prophetic symbols.  But every time I sit there in the service, or stand worshipping, and I’m looking up at those trumpets, I kind of stand in awe of what God is doing.

There are people who believe that these silver trumpets have a message for today.  There are people who believe that they represent what the prophet Zechariah was talking about when he spoke about the two lampstands - the two witnesses.

We’ve got it all figured out.  But remember that the Scripture is full of many facets and layers of teaching.  And we know by what we understand through the Book of the Revelation, through the teaching of the Old Testament, that there’s going to be two prophets come on the scene – one in the spirit of Moses, one in the spirit of Elijah.  

We’re able to identify that because of the miracles that John saw in the Spirit and heard in the Spirit from Yeshua that they were going to perform – having power to turn the water to blood, having power to shut up the heavens that they rain not - Elijah and Moses.

But I believe that there’s a great possibility that this is again multi-layered and multi-faceted.  And I wouldn’t be surprised if this is not also a message about the reuniting of the two houses of Israel.  And this is a subject that could never be covered in the end of a sermon.  But I’ve mentioned it briefly before.

The children of Yehuda, Judah, and the children of Ephraim, the sons of Yehuda and the sons of Ephraim – the Bible talks about them being two sticks intertwined.

I mentioned to you that many people believe . . .  Of course, we know this for a fact, that what we know today as Jews come from the sons of Judah.  That’s how we get the term Jew.  And there was never a time that there were not some of the sons of Yehuda living in that Land.  

But remember that the kingdom was divided for many years – Judah and Israel.  Under David, united, later again divided.  And during the time of dispersion, Diaspora, it was mainly the descendents of Ephraim, the other tribes, that were scattered - also some of the sons of Yehuda.  

And all of these people mixed and scattered.  I’ve told you before, there are Jews, true Jews as black as anybody has ever been black, from Ethiopia.  And no one questions that they’re Jews.  They’ve lived all of their life as Jews.  Their fathers did.  Their grandfathers did.  Their great-grandfathers did.  It’s been passed down.

There’s a tribe that’s been recognized in the last few years from Japan with the slanted eyes of the Asian, the white pallor of a Japanese, who have lived and worshipped as Jews because they were scattered.

There is a tremendous amount of Hebrew in the native American languages especially Cherokee.  Many of the First Nation languages of Canada, their Indian tribes . . . there is great amounts of Hebrew words.  Some people believe then that there’s a great possibility that the native Americans have evolved from a scattered tribe of the Jews. - greatly possible.

Someone mentioned in fun, Daniel, about the Mennonites and the Amish.  Someone has done . . . a non-believer has done a lot of research and has found that in that particular part of Saxony and Germany where the Mennonite Movement, the Reformation Movement, later led to the Anabaptist Movement, that that whole area was inhabited by scattered Jews, which has led many people to believe that the Amish and the Mennonites of today are descendents of one of the tribes of Israel.

There’s all kinds of ideas, theories and speculations.  And guess what?  We’ll never be able to know for sure until eternity.  But I’ll tell you something God has done.  He’s provided a way of protecting the priesthood.  It’s official.  It’s been researched enough until the evidence is in, and they’re able to search the DNA for genetic links for the cohanim, the priests.

And they’re able to set Jewish men aside who have this specific tag, knowing that they’re descendents.

Do you think that’s an accident?  One day a high priest is coming forth from that very group, and his DNA is going to testify.  He may have had a dozen white people, or Asian people, or black people in his history, his lineage, but his DNA is going to testify where he’s come from.  God protects all of those things.

So in summary to end, it’s difficult to know unless you were raised a Jew whether you have Jewishness in you or not by descendency.  And there are many people who believe that what God is doing . . . and I wouldn’t be surprised . . . is He’s calling people, tugging people, pulling people to have a heart for Israel because there’s Jewishness in their bloodline.  There is something strange about how God deals with people.  

There’s a Baptist man who has . . .  I’ve been reading about him for some time . . .  Sister Nancy sent me an article she transcribed, but I’ve read other things that he wrote . . . who goes to Israel all the time, who gives money, who raises thousands of dollars to help the Jewish people, and boldly declares he has no desire to convert anybody.  He just wants to help ‘em because God’s placed it in his heart to do it.  

And all kinds of people are moved with a love for Israel and a love for the Jews, and they don’t know why.  And many people believe that it’s a spiritual thing that God is doing to gather His people together because in the Last Days this divided house is going to be reunited in the Spirit.  Because God tells us one new man is coming forth where there will be neither Jew nor Gentile – just one new body in Messiah.

And many people believe that these Scriptures that talk about these two candlesticks, and these two witnesses, that they’re not only . . .  Some believe that they’re not at all, but others believe that they’re not only referring to these two prophets that will show up during the time of Jacob’s sorrow, or the great tribulation period . . .

But some people believe that they represent . . . these two witnesses represent two groups of people, Jewish believers and Christian believers – perhaps sons of Ephraim who come together.  It has never happened before.  It has never happened before, but it’s happening now.

Messianic churches in this country are full of Gentiles - a handful of Jews.  More books, more songs, more music, more teaching is being produced today by Messianic people - some of it accurate, some of it not so good, like everything else.  There’s never been a time where more talk has been about the Jews and Israel, reading the Torah and worshipping God.

There’s a reason for that.  There’s a reason why God is doing that.  Perhaps He’s raising up those two witnesses.  Not to say that there won’t be two prophets.  We know there will be.  But another . . .  

Two trumpets . . .  These portions . . .  In closing, these portions are so important because it speaks about Israel moving away from the camp.  They’ve camped now at the base of the mountain.  They have experienced a honeymoon with their God over one year.  One year they’ve been camped, just soaking.

And now their honeymoon is over and God is getting ready to put them in war.  They’re about to begin a journey that will ultimately lead them through the way of bloodshed, pain, sorrow, suffering, war - a journey that will take their General to a place where he’s able to stand on the lofty heights of Mount Nebo and see the Promise, but never inherit it - a journey that will take them through the Red Sea, through the Jordan River, and on a path of circles, wandering, wandering, in the wilderness - good times, bad times, forty years of belly-aching.  And it starts at the end of this Torah portion - their good ol’ belly-aching.

But at the end, there’s going to come a Joshua, a successor, who will raise up and take a new generation in to that Promised Land.  Spies are going to be sent out.  You know the story.

And God establishes a pattern for leading this great group of people - a Pillar of Fire, He tells them, in this portion, a Cloud and a Pillar of Fire, He tells them in this portion.  And now He says “two trumpets” with signals to call you when you need to be called, to gather you when you need to be gathered, to warn you when you need to be warned, to tell you to take up your weapons when it’s time to go to war.

I’m going to tell you something.  We must understand that the honeymoon is over – this great time of soaking in and learning.  And we’re going to keep learning.  We’re going to keep soaking.  But it is past time to start using what we know.  We’ve built a massive arsenal spiritually.  We’ve gathered tremendous weapons and revelations to use against the enemy.  But it’s time to recognize that all that has been given to us is going to be required of us.

Anybody still listening?  All that has been given to us is going to be required of us.  And we would run.  We would hide.  We would forfeit.  But we know, that we know, that we know that all we need to overcome has been sown into us already.  Every word that is necessary to defeat our enemy has been given to us by the Holy Ghost.  

All that we need to be changed into the manifested sons of God is upon us and with us.  And there’s no reason to retreat.  There’s no reason to run and hide.  There’s no reason to be in a backslid or a lukewarm condition.  

It’s time now to take all that has been given to us and use it ultimately to defeat our enemy, to possess our possessions, to finish the vision, the goal, the purpose, that the Lord has given us so that we can lay this mercy and grace at the feet of those who should have had it in the beginning, but for us – but for us.

Not just their rejection . . .  Their rejection was because God said, “There’s another house.  There’s another people.  Sure, I love My people.  Sure, I love My people, but I’m loving some others.  There’s some others I’m in love with, too.  There’s some other people I’m in love with too.”

And there’s going to come a time that things are going to be so mixed up that people aren’t going to know who is Jew and who is not Jew.  It’s not going to be by a kippa or a Shabbat candle that somebody’s going to be able to know.

They’re not going to know.  But I’m going to make sure somehow, some way, that those who are Mine, predestinated, elected, from the foundation of the world to receive the righteousness in the Kingdom of God, they’re going to have what they need.

They’re going to be redeemed.  I’m coming Myself.  I’m not sending another - not an imposter, not an ambassador.  I’m coming myself to be their Kinsman Redeemer.

And until that time that I redeem them, both soul, spirit and eventually body . . .  We’re waiting on the redemption of the body.  Until that time I will be faithful, God said, to drop for them handfuls on purpose so that they can glean, so that they can eat, so that they can be nourished and ready.

And here we are.  People still won’t speak to one another.  People still run out the door so they don’t have to greet the Bride.  People act all sort of ways - petty jealousies and all this junk - not realizing, not recognizing, that we’re there.  Oh, hallelujah.

Musicians are coming.

I have no apologies – none, none.  

The Lord spoke to me since Sunday, in the Spirit, and told me what I was to take to . . . what my message was to be when I go to Iceland.  “You take them this Message that I’ve given you.”  And I saw it in the Spirit - that beautiful chuppah . . . oh, hallelujah . . . the friend of the Bridegroom, the consummation.

That’s old news to you, but there’s a whole lot of people that haven’t heard it.  God knows how, doesn’t He?

Let’s stand.  

Thank you so much for enduring.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  

We bless You, Lord.  Hallelujah.

Let’s sing that, “Oh, Lord God of Israel . . .”

Hallelujah.  We bless You, Lord.  We bless You, Lord.

Love one another, would you?