The Trial of Faith

The Bible is a script. 

HIS-STORY.

A Narrative. 

We are right smack dab in the most grand redemptive story

that could possibly be conceived. 

With it, we know…

how things BEGAN

and

 how things will END

In the 1st book of the Bible (GENESIS)

Nimrod built the kingdom of Babylon with

a tower that reached to Heaven

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let us build us a city and a tower,

whose top may reach to heaven;

 

In the last book of the Bible (REVELATION)

 Babylon has been rebuilt and

her sins have reached to heaven.

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5For her sins have reached to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities. 

 

So let’s backtrack and see how everything else fit’s within this scope.

After the flood, the

descendant’s of Noah

then formed into 70 Nations 

and

built the

Tower of Babel

God then 

SCATTERED the nations

across the face of the earth

Scattering, bearing fruit, and vanity are extremely important concepts to understand. 

They are allegorically described using the process of the harvest and threshing wheat. 

It is used to for distinguishing what God considers…

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 – EMPTY WORTHLESS VANITY  –

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• FLESH
• LIES, DECEIT
• DARKNESS
• PRIDE THAT LIFTS UP
• WICKED
• UNRIGHTEOUS
• UNHOLY
• UNCLEAN
• ROUGH
• SCARLET WOOL

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He must

increase +,

 

but I must

decrease –

 

+ PROFITABLE FRUIT  +

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• SPIRIT
• TRUTH
• LIGHT
• HUMILITY THAT BRINGS LOW
• JUSTIFIED
• RIGHTEOUS
• HOLY
• CLEAN
• SMOOTH
• WHITE LINEN   

Matthew 9 :  The Sheep and the Harvest

HARVESTING WHEAT 

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was typically done through use of a SICKLE or SCYTHE.

  At the time of the HARVEST (“To Cut Down”), 

when his crop is fully ripe, 

the farmer cuts down (hew’s) his crop

that he has sown in the field. 

 

The farmer would then

GATHER / GLEAN / BUNDLE

the stalks of wheat together

 in what is called

a SHEAF or SHEAVES (multiple)

 

 The bundled wheat is then taken  to the 

CIRCULAR THRESHING FLOOR

where the sheaves would be 

spread across the threshing floor

and then be THRESHED.

Thresh (Hebrew) [h1758] דּוּשׁ dûwsh (occurs 15 in 14)

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• —break, tear, thresh, tread out (down)   
• to tread out, thresh
• to tread on, trample on, thresh 

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Threshed(Hebrew) [h2251] חָבַט châbaṭ (occurs 5 in 5)

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• to beat, beat out, beat off, thresh with a stick or flail

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Threshing(Hebrew) [h4173] מוֹרַג môwrag (occurs 3 in 3)

• from an unused root meaning to triturate;
• a threshing sledge:—threshing instrument.

PAIRS OF OXEN

would be walked round and round

dragging behind them 

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THRESHING BOARDS

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had stones or flint chips or iron spikes

inserted into the bottom side.  These teeth speed up the threshing process 

 

-or-

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THRESHING SLEDGE (WAIN)

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a threshing wain which consisted of 3 or 4 wooden cylinders armed with stones of iron joined together as a sledge  

THRESHING  

can also be done individually with  

 

 A FLAIL

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-or-

 

 Ruth & Gideon both threshed wheat.

BY TREADING WITH FEET

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These INSTRUMENTS for THRESHING

were used to accomplish 3 things:

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TEAR AWAY the EARS OF GRAIN from the STALKS,

CUT and CRUSH up the wheat to LEVEL & SMOOTH,

& LOOSEN the GRAIN from HUSK

STALKS

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(are torn from)

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EARS OF GRAIN

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He who has an EAR, let him hear”

 

EARS OF GRAIN ARE CRUSHED & BEATEN

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to

SMOOTH, LEVEL, & LOOSEN   

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A WINNOWING FORK

would then be used

to WINNOW the THRESHED WHEAT

Threshing floors were built in the high parts

of the city to utilize the WIND

to SEPARATE 

 

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THE CHAFF : THE EMPTY SHELL

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(The Outer Protective Coating)

 

-from-

 

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THE LOOSENED GRAIN : 

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(Fruit with the Shell)

THE LIGHT CHAFF

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& short torn straw

would be BLOWN AWAY BY WIND

and fall some distance away…

SCATTERED

  

 

THE HEAVIER GRAIN

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 would FALL

at the winnower’s feet,

then finally taken

 into the farmers barn. 

 

The grain could then be 

FURTHER CLEANSED by SIEVING. 

A sieve, or sifter, is a device for separating

unwanted material from wanted elements

 

UNWANTED

MATERIAL

 

WANTED

ELEMENTS

THE THRESHING PROCESS

is used to describe SANCTIFICATION 

which is the process of being made HOLY

God chose Abraham out of Babylon and then tempted him by telling him to offer up Isaac as a burnt offering in MOUNT MORIAH, which was a common pagan practice that came out of Babylon. When God saw that Abraham acted upon God’s request, God knew that he feared Him, and did not withhold His only son from Him.  Abraham then offered up a substitute offering of a ram in Isaac’s place.. 

 

 

MOUNT MORIAH is the place where David

would purchase THE THRESHING FLOOR 

from Ornan the Jebusite

and establish Jerusalem.

  

It was upon the Threshing floor that his son, Solomon, who was the wisest on earth,

built the Temple made with hands. 

Before constructing and laying the foundation of a building,

the area must be SMOOTHED & LEVEL…THRESHED

 

FORESHADOWING  is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events.   The law had a shadow of good things to come but it was not the very image.

Luke 3 : The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:19-28) 

 2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; 6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

Matthew 3 :  The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-20; John 1:19-28)

  8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. 12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

So God establishes His covenant with Abraham.  Being circumcised equated to you signing a contract and have agreed to obey the things written in the contract.   God in turn would bless his seed and give them the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession, but not before they would be afflicted in Egypt for 400 years.

CIRCUMCISION was used to

remove the REPROACH OF THE FLESH with a knife.

 Jesus condemning sin in the flesh and then sending His Holy Spirit to CIRCUMCISE OUR HEARTS.  The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God which now dwells in our hearts to remove the REPROACH OF THE FLESH

THE PROMISE

LAND OF 

CANAAN

 THE PROMISE 

OF 

ETERNAL LIFE

Genesis 15 : God’s Covenant with Abram 

13And he said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their’s, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them 400 years; 14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 

JACOB would be renamed to “ISRAEL”

which means “God Prevails”

(against the nations) 

 

So from God’s perspective you are either of HIS nation, or of THE nations. 

“Gentile” means “of the nations”,

“not of the one nation-Israel”.  

THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL that came from JACOB

came by way of his 2 wives and their 2 handmaids

WIVES

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RACHEL

LEAH

 

 

HANDMAIDS

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BILHAH (Rachel’s)

ZILPAH (Leah’s

LEAH had the 1st 4 tribes of Israel :

1) REUBEN 2) SIMEON 3) LEVI 4) JUDAH

RACHEL became envious of LEAH because she was able to conceive and give Jacob children and she couldn’t. So she gave Jacob her handmaid BILHAH to conceive who had : 

5) DAN 6) NAPHTALI

LEAH then gave Jacob her handmaid  ZILPAH to conceive who had 

7) GAD 8) ASHER

LEAH then had

9) ISAACHAR 10) ZEBULON

RACHEL finally had 

11) JOSEPH 12) BENJAMIN

Rachel [H7354] רָחֵל Râchêl raw-khale’; (occurs 47 in 44)

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• Rachel = “ewe”
• a female lamb
• daughter of Laban, wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

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the same as H7353; רָחֵל râchêl, raw-kale’;

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• from an unused root meaning to journey;
• a ewe [the females being the predominant element of a flock]
• (as a good traveller):—ewe, sheep.

RACHEL

 

BENJAMIN

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(“son of the right hand”)

 

JOSEPH

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(“God has ADDED”) (+)

 

Rachel died given birth to Benjamin in Bethlehem

which means “House of Bread”.

David and Jesus were born in Bethlehem.

 WHO JACOB (ISRAEL) “LOVED THE MOST”   

RACHEL 

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“The Wife” 

 

JOSEPH 

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“The Son” 

This is where the SHEEP  

and the SHEPHERD narrative begins.  

Rachel and Leah the 2 wives of Jacob

were the ones that built the house of Israel

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  THE SHEEP came from RACHEL

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 THE SHEPHERD  came from LEAH

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RUTH 4 : BOAZ REDEEMS RUTH

11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:  

JUDAH and JOSEPH

 received the LONGEST BLESSINGS from Jacob.

GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY of joseph

 

22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.

 

GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF Judah

 

8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk

THE SCEPTER is a MARK OF AUTHORITY.    

The Scepter is the Law

 

 

 

Joseph is prophecied to bare the fruit that comes from following and obeying the shepherd who bares the Scepter.

 

The Scepter is the Law which is what Jesus our Shepherd, who was from the Tribe of Judah fulfilled and unto him shall everyone be gathered.  

Hebrews 1 : The Supremacy of the Son (Colossians 1:15-23)  

8But to the Son he said, Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 10And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;  

Joseph’s brothers envied him and they threw him

into an empty pit and was sold into in Egypt. 

While in Egypt, Joseph gave birth to 2 sons, Ephraim and Manassah

 

MANASSAH

 

EPHRAIM

 5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 

אֶפְרַיִם ʼEphrayim

“I shall be doubly fruitful”

1ST PORTION

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(of the womb)
 Multiplying into a nation while in Egypt after God told them “to be fruitful and multiply.”

 

2ND PORTION

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(of actions & thoughts)  

 the fruit of the Spirit

given to us by Christ’s Holy Spirit

[h7926]שְׁכֶם shek-em SHECHEM the Hebrew word for “SHOULDER” and also the name of the city in Canaan where ...

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• God 1st appeared to Abraham,  after being called out of Babylon
•  1st altar built to God by Abraham was  
•  God renamed Jacob to “Israel” 

It was also: 

• An inheritance for Ephraim and Manassah . 
• Where Joseph and Joshua were buried 
• Where Joshua (“from Tribe of Ephraim”) made a covenant with Israel that they would put away strange gods and wrote Moses Law and took a great stone and set it here under this oak    

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, & Ephraim, were all 2ND BORN but received the 1ST BORN BLESSING.   

This foreshadows the 2ND BORN Jesus, born of spirit, receiving the 1ST BORN BLESSING over Adam, born of flesh.  

Joseph received the 1ST BORN BIRTHRIGHT even though he was 2ND TO LAST BORN of the 12 tribes.  This was because after Rachel died, Reuben who was Jacob’s actual 1st born son slept with Bilhah, Rachel’s Handmaid and defiled Jacob’s bed. Because of this,  Reuben lost his1st Born Birth Right and it was  given to Joseph, the 1st born of Rachel 

1 CHRONICLES 5 :  DESCENDANTS OF REUBEN

1Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but for as much as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)  

BIRTHRIGHT PROMISE

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 Joseph 

Ephraim          ::       Manassah 

 

SCEPTER PROMISE

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Judah

David         ::          Jesus

Ephraim, who received the 1st born blessing was prophesied to be the fullness of the nations, those belonging to God.   Jacob’s blessing for Ephraim was implying that the nations disinherited by God that were scattered at the Tower of Babel and that left off building the city, would eventually come together again to try and finish what Nimrod had started.  Once the fullness of the nations plan is complete, Ephraim at that time, would be scattered among the nations. 

 

Revelation 18 :  Babylon is Fallen 

4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 

Matthew 25 :  The Sheep and the Goats

THE GOATS

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THE SHEEP

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EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

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LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE

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Moses led them to Mount Sinai (Horeb)where God thundered down

THE LAW and 10 COMMANDMENTS,

to Israel as well as the aliens that had left and joined with them,  

as well instruction to Moses on setting  up a TABERNACLE in the Wilderness

EXODUS 19 : ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI

 LEVITICUS 20: KEEP ALL MY DECREES

22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples. 25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine. 

1 TIMOTHY :  

9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for murderers, 10For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for enslavers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;  

In the beginning,

MAN (Adam) was given

DOMINION and AUTHORITY

in earth by God.

 

is a minimum or starting point used for comparisons.

Just as a BASELINE in Tennis

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is used to distinguish

whether the ball in play is

IN or OUT of bounds…

 

 

 

THE LAW is the BASELINE

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 Are you walking 

within the boundaries

of His Covenant or Not?

Exodus 16 : 

4Then said the LORD to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Out of bounds

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DISOBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Curses

In Bounds

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OBEDIENCE

to the covenant

led to Blessings 

The Law serves to warn what will happen due to disobedience and reward those who are obedient.  This is why we are to fear the Lord.

 GOD’S LAW & COVENANT

with Israel is ESTABLISHED

in the 1st 5 books of the Old Testament.

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The rest of the bible, is written in reference to the stipulations in these 5 books 

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The next 17 books of the Old Testament are essentially historical books based on how well Israel followed the instructions given in these 5 books. 

 

The last 17 books of the Old Testament are books written by the PROPHETS warning Israel of they curses that will be enacted from these 5 books if they continue to disobey the covenant that had been established.  

THE LAW in the 1st 5 books  

is the outline of the biblical puzzle.

It set’s the borders on how

all the other pieces should fit within it’s frame.  

 

The easiest way to put the puzzle together

is by first piecing the borders

or boundaries together. 

Everything then fits within those pieces.

THE LAW established in the 1st 5 books

establishes 2 things…

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THE LAW of  SIN and DEATH 

[EVIL]

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THE LAW is Spiritual but we are carnal,

sold under THE LAW of  SIN and DEATH ,

because we have all sinned

and fallen short of His RIGHTEOUSNESS .

 

SIN is an Archers term for

“MISSING THE MARK”. 

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THE LAW of  RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH

[GOOD]

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If there was no mark or target, 

there would be no way of distinguishing if their arrow landed in the correct place. 

 

The LAW establishes the mark

which we are to aim, which is

RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH.     

 Sin does not exist without the Law. The Law is not sin, but it gives life to it, by defining what sin is.  Sin is defined as transgression of the Law.    

 just as a state or federal law

defines what is illegal. 

ROMANS 7 : GOD’S LAW IS HOLY

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 

STRUGGLING WITH SIN

13Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.  

ROMANS 4:15

Because the Law Works Wrath: for where No Law is, there is no transgression.

A law does not take effect until broken.   When it is transgressed, it works wrath and debt.  The covenant made with Israel did not make them Righteous, it made them in debt to do the whole Law.

 If you are convicted of a felony by transgressing a man made law, you are in debt to repay society by serving time in prison, therefore a slave and in bondage to it.  

THE LAW of SIN and DEATH  works DEBT, BONDAGE,

and ultimately WRATH & JUDGEMENT based off the CURSES it enacts

Every sin committed is like borrowing money that you have no way of paying back.

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The Debt from Sin continues to Pile up.  Every Transgression of the Law Adds to the Wrath being piled up and ultimately a due date for when the debt is due to be paid… where the curses enacted in the LAW ultimately devour the earth

 Just as the US is over 20 Trillion dollars in debt, with no possible way to repay it, and each day that debt continues to grow…out debt has doubled just within the past 10 years.

In the 1ST BOOK of the Bible (GENESIS)

Nimrod built the kingdom of Babylon with

a tower that reached to Heaven

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let us build us a city and a tower,

whose top may reach to heaven;

 

In the LAST BOOK of the Bible (REVELATION)

 Babylon has been rebuilt and

her sins have reached to heaven.

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5For her sins have reached to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities. 

 

PSALM 19

7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.   

When stationed in the wilderness after the Exodus out of Egypt,  all of Rachel’s descendant’s were stationed together in the West, and were known as the Camp of Ephraim.   They included Benjamin and the 2 son’s of Joseph, Ephraim, and Manassah.  They were closest to the Holy of Holy’s that contained the Ark of the Covenant which contained the 10 commandments.

PSALM 80:  HEAR US, SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL

 

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth. 

2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us. 3Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 

 

• EPHRAIM:   JOSHUA was from Ephraim who led Israel into Promised Land

• BENJAMIN:   The APOSTLE PAUL was from Benjamin who established the first churches

• MANASSAH:   GIDEON was from Manassah, who was chosen by God to defeat the Midianites 

While in wilderness, God chose 1 from each tribe to go spy out Canaan, the land promised to them by God as an inheritance.  Moses instructed the spies to report whether the land was good or bad and to bring of back the fruit of the land.  They returned after 40 days of searching they said the fruit of the land is good and it flows with milk and honey, but, those who dwell in the land have cities that are walled and the sons of Anak who are giants and stronger than us dwell there so there is no way we can possess the land.  They feared the inhabitants of the land more than they feared God.

Only 2 spies of the 12

did not bring back a negative report,

and did not fear the inhabitants of Canaan

JOSHUA

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From the Tribe of EPHRAIM

 

CALEB

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From the Tribe of JUDAH

 

 

 

 These are the only 2 people that left during the Exodus

and made it to the Promised Land.  God made

them wander in the wilderness for 40 years due to disobedience!!! 

601,730

left during the Exodus

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and all of them died

in the Wilderness except

JOSHUA from Ephraim

& CALEB from Judah

+ the sons and daughters

that were born to those who died 

during that 40 year period

THE SHEEP  (Ephraim)

and the THE SHEPHERD (Judah)

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Numbers 32 :  

6And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here? 7And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. 9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying, 11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 12Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. 13And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. 14And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people.

It was only the children of this generation, 

that was to enter the Promised Land under Joshua. 

Joshua used a sword/knife to circumcise

all those who were born in the wilderness at hill of foreskins in Gilgal (Circle) before reaching the Promised Land.

 

Entering into the new promised land, eternal life, under Jesus who circumcises our hearts with his Holy Spirit before we reach the new promised land of eternal life. 

Just before they finally entered the Promised Land of Canaan,

we see God adding a new covenant at Moab,

to that which was given to the generation before at Horeb/Sinai.

So this covenant was given not only to that generation, but to all generation that came after them. 

The Covenant at Moab was an EXPANSION OF THE BLESSING & CURSES

given at Horeb (Leviticus 26), pending obedience or disobedience to the Law. 

@ HOREB / Mount SINAI

Contained in the books:

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers

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@ MOAB

  Contained in:

Deuteronomy (2nd Covenant)

Deuteronomy 28 : The Blessings of Obedience (Leviticus 25:18-22; Deuteronomy 4:1-14; Deuteronomy 11:1-7)

1And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth: 2And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

4Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.

5Blessed shall be your basket and your store.

6Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. 8The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9The LORD shall establish you an holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. 10And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you. 11And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12The LORD shall open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 13And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if that you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them: 14And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

THE CURSES FOR DISOBEDIENCE (Leviticus 20:1-9; Leviticus 26:14-39; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Kings 13:11-34) 

45Moreover all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you listened not to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 46And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed for ever.

47Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

49The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand; 50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young: 51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cows, or flocks of your sheep, until he have destroyed you. 52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and narrow place, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 

59Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60Moreover he will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall stick to you. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring on you, until you be destroyed. 

62And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 

63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it. 

64And the LORD shall scatter^[h6237]you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone. 

65And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

 66And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:

67In the morning you shall say, Would God it were even! and at even you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 68And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold to your enemies for slaves and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. 

THE CHOICE OF LIFE OR DEATH

15See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it. 17But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. 19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: 20That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may hold to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Moses set before them

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THE LAW of  SIN

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  [DEATH & EVIL]

Curses

 

-and-

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THE LAW of  RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH

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[LIFE & GOOD]

Blessings

CURSES FOR DISOBEDIENCE

ON MOUNT EBAL

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The sons of their handmaids stood on

Mount Ebal to curse (w/ exception of Reuben)

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• Reuben
• Gad
• Asher
• Zebulun
• Dan
• Naphtali. 

 

BLESSINGS FOR OBEDIENCE 

ON MOUNT GERIZEM

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The sons of Jacob’s Wives, Rachel and Leah, stood on Mount Gerizem to bless.

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• Simeon
• Levi
• Judah
• Issachar
• Joseph (meaning Ephraim & Manassah)
• Benjamin

When they finally arrived in the promised land, each tribe had land allotted to them.  

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Joshua 18 :  The Tabernacle at Shiloh

1And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh^[h7886], and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

  THE REMAINER DIVIDED

8And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh^[h7886]. 9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh. 10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh^[h7886]before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

  Israel eventually decided to have a king over them 

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SAUL

DAVID

SOLOMON 

MOUNT MORIAH  

where Abraham offered up Isaac as offering to God,

is the place where David

would purchase THE THRESHING FLOOR 

from Ornan the Jebusite and establish Jerusalem.

 

After David died, his son Solomon built the Temple

on the THRESHING FLOOR that his father David had bought. It was upon the Threshing floor that his son, Solomon, who was the wisest on earth, built the Temple made with hands. 

Before constructing and laying the foundation of a building,

the area must be SMOOTHED & LEVEL…THRESHED

 

After Solomon sat on the throne and had built the temple… 

 He led Israel to follow other gods.

1 KINGS 11 :  God’s Anger against Solomon

1 KINGS 11 : JEROBOAM’S REBELLION

The NORTHERN KINGDOM

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(became known as: )

 

“THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL”

“THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH”  

“THE HOUSE OF EPHRAIM”

The SOUTHERN KINGDOM

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(became known as: )

 

“THE HOUSE OF JUDAH”

The Northern Kingdom did nothing different than what Solomon did under his rule.  After 20 different kings and 200 years of idolatry, Israel was exiled into Assyria.  Here we see the prophecy and curse coming to pass where God said He would scatter them among the nations for disobedience.  In 721 BC God had Assyria conquer Sumeria and take the Northern Kingdom captive to Assyria.  

Vanity(Hebrew) [h1892] הֶבֶל hebel (occurs 73 in 64)

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• emptiness or vanity;
• figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; 

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Vain (Greek) [g2756] kenós

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• empty ;  
• devoid of truth;
• No Purpose, value or profit
• Fruitless, without effect
• -of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing; 

God had warned Israel just before crossing the Jordan River, with the added covenant, that this would happen if they didn’t obey,  but they ignored the covenant that said…

Deuteronomy 28

 36The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you. 

The first thing those from the Southern Kingdom, who returned to Jerusalem, after being in Babylonian captivity for 70 years…

 

They came together as ONE MAN

and READ THE LAW OF GOD DISTINCTLY,

so they understood it.

 

Nehemiah 8 :   Ezra Reads the Law

 

1And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. 

8So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 

Jeremiah 13 :  Captivity Threatened

24Therefore will I scatter ^[h6327] them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness. 25This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, said the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26Therefore will I discover your skirts on your face, that your shame may appear. 27I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 18 : The Potter and the Clay 

13Therefore thus said the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. 14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? 15Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; 16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. 17I will scatter ^[h6327]them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Now we see this scripture in Deuteronomy beginning to unfold, as the covenant curses begin to be enacted. 

The people of Israel no longer remain a people and begin assimilating into the nations.  

God pleads for them to turn from their sin…

INVITATION TO REPENTANCE (Isaiah 57:14-21; Hosea 14:1-3; Zechariah 1:1-6)

11And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah. 12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, said the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall on you: for I am merciful, said the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. 13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, said the LORD. 14Turn, O backsliding children, said the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

15And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.16And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, said the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. 17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.

19But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me. 20Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD. 21A voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

Hosea 1 : Hosea’s Wife and Children

Hosea 5 : God’s Judgment on Israel and Judah

HOSEA 9 : HOSEA ANNOUNCES ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT

Hosea 13 :  Ephraim’s Glory Vanishes

God divorced the Northern Kingdom because they hardened their hearts and rejected God’s Law in pursuing other Gods.  They are truly, no longer His people.     In all of this we see that which was spoken over 1100 years earlier concerning Ephraim, by Jacob himself. 

 

Gen 48 : Jacob Blesses Ephraim & Manasseh  19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Jeremiah 30 :  Restoration of Israel and Judah

7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. 8For it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. 10Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, said the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, see, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 11For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered ^[h6327] you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished. 12For thus said the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. 13There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. 14All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased. 15Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. 16Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured;  and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey on you will I give for a prey. 17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, said the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Jeremiah 50 : Hope for Israel and Judah

 Ezekial 34 : The Good Shepherd (Psalm 23:1-6; John 10:1-21)

Micah 2  : The Remnant of Israel

God said he would rescue the sheep He scattered.  Yet how can this be?  How can God search for his lost sheep after He has already divorced her and she is defiled?  Wouldn’t this break his own law?

THE GREAT MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL 

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GOD CANNOT SIN

 

How then could God remarry whom He divorced,

when it states in His own Law that it is a sin to do so?

 Matthew 10 : Instructions to Disciples(Mark 6:7-13; Luke 9:1-6)

This was a great mystery to all the priests and rabbis.  They wondered how He was going to redeem the Northern Kingdom of Israel.   They wondered how can He remarry the very one He divorced and declared to have given herself over to prostitution.    God can not break the very righteous laws that define his own Righteousness.    Breaking the law of God is Sin, the law defines sin according to God’s own words.    God cannot Sin.

Galatians 3 : Christ Redeemed Us (Deuteronomy 21:22-23)

10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live in them. 13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: 14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The curse of the Law and Judgement comes from the LAW OF JEALOUSY stipulated in Numbers 5 in which a woman accused of Adultery is brought before the Judge (God) by the Priest (Jesus).  The woman was then made to drink the bitter water that causes the curse.    The Law of Jealousy’shas the most cases  in all of Moses Law and is the Key to Understanding what Jesus did for us on the Cross as well as the book of Revelation.  d to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

NUMBERS 5 : THE LAW OF JEALOUSY  (The adultery test)

11And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.  16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse: 

 

 

The Lord : The Judge

The Jealousy Offering

of the woman in her hands

 

Holy Water mixed with dust of Tabernacle

in earthen vessel by Priest making it bitter

19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman,

If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband,

be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse: 

20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband: 

21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; 22And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 

28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; 30Or when the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.  

He had divorced Israel because of their unfaithfulness and adultery listed in 2 Kings 17

and therefore they should have received the curse in Numbers 5,

but instead He sent His only begotten son in our place to receive it for us. 

 It was this curse that Jesus took for us when he drank of the cup in the Garden of Gethsemene.  He knew what the cup would bring and that is why he prayed…

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LUKE 22 : JESUS PRAYS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

 42Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done. 43And there appeared an angel to him from heaven, strengthening him.  44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. 

 

Babylon is personified as the whore and she is the made to drink the bitter water that causes the curse.  She receives the judgement that Jesus took for us on the cross.

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Revelation 17 : 

 

 4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 

How the Curse of Numbers 5 was fulfilled

after drinking the curse of bitter water in the Garden the Gethesemene….

THIGH FALLING AWAY

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They cursed and denounced him, at the very timing of the curse going forth.  The thigh is representative a person’s word or credibility, or even authority.   Used in matters of keeping one’s word.    This is why we see oath’s given why a man’s hand was under the others thigh.

The thigh wasting away was representative of ones credibility being useless. When Jesus did not give the crowds proof of being the Son of God, His credibility meant nothing.  The strongest muscle in the body is the quadricep, in the thigh.  How did his thighs waste away on the cross?  It was the thighs that one used in raising themselves up, in order to breathe when being crucified.   After all of this suffering and torture that happened before ever seeing the cross.   Then after several hours on the cross, constantly lifting himself up, on the cross, just to struggle to breath, his thighs finally gave way.   Which shows how he suffocated after saying, “It is finished”.   Because truly his thighs could lift him no more.   There was no strength left and he suffocated as a result of his thighs wasting away.

MATTHEW 27

40and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41In like manner also the chief priests mocking him , with the scribes and elders, said, 42He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. 43He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God

Mocking Jesus.  The Woman, the hunter, as was Nimrod, with the Egyptian Phoenix bird rising up behind her which is bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.  Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor…meaning Christ.

He held no credibility with them as He doesn’t still today…

Yet there will be no mistaking his word, credibility, or authority, at his second coming.   His thigh will make it very clear.

 REVELATION 19

15And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.16And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KINGS OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

NUMBERS 5

21then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy abdomen to swell;

THE ABDOMEN SWELLING

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Our lungs expand towards the least resistance given.  In a relaxed state, that expansion is downward.   Our Savior had been up all night in a mock trial, plus we know he was stressed because his sweat was mixed with blood, the night of praying in the garden.  He didn’t enter this day on a good night’s sleep, on a nice mattress.  So he has been up over 24 hours, after being smacked around by the Pharisees, and having his beard pulled, he gets beat up by the Roman soldiers, then presented to his people, with a crown of thorns.  Then he gets flogged to the point of hardly having human recognition. 

ISAIAH 52

14Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), 

Then he has to

carry the weight

of his own cross.

 

JOHN 19 : THE DEATH OF JESUS

²⁸After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. ²⁹There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.

So what scripture needed to be fulfilled from John 19:28 that He needed to drink something? What was He given to drink?  Wine Vinegar from a sponge.  In essence, that which is bitter.

JOHN 19

²⁴They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my garments among them, And upon my vesture did they cast lots.

³⁴howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water. ³⁵And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe. ³⁶For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. ³⁷And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

COLOSSIANS 2

13And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say , did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;14having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;

 

NUMBERS 5 containing

the handwriting of ordinances.

NUMBERS 5 : THE LAW OF JEALOUSIES

23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

It was these ordinances written on the scroll that were contrary to us or against us.  It was these written ordinances that were washed off the scroll into the cup and then drunk in the Garden of Gethsemene by Jesus.  He had to drink the bitter water prescribed in His LAW for a wife accused of adultery

 

Then was nailed to the cross and to Jesus.  

Once we piece the border’s together, we can fit the rest of the pieces together, working towards the middle, in order to come to the understanding of image on the cover,  which is HOLINESS & GRACE, who fulfilled the Righteousness of the Law for us and is the End of the Law for Righteousness to anyone that believes.  

 

 

Romans 8 : God Works In All Things (Ephesians 1:3-14)

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

His work is to form us

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into the image of His son

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ROMANS 6 : DEAD TO SIN, ALIVE TO GOD

1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Malachi 3 :  The Coming Day of Judgment (John 1:6-13)

1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, said the LORD of hosts. 2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: 3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, said the LORD of hosts.

 THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

16Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought on his name. 17And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. 18Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

WORTHLESS DROSS

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PURIFIED METAL

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God chose Abraham out of Babylon and then tempted him by telling him to offer up Isaac as a burnt offering in MOUNT MORIAH, which was a common pagan practice that came out of Babylon.  When God saw that Abraham acted upon God’s request, God knew that he feared God, and did not withhold His only son from Him.  Abraham then offered up a substitute offering of a ram in Isaac’s place.. 

MOUNT MORIAH

 would be the future location of where David

would purchase THE THRESHING FLOOR from Ornan the Jebusite.

 

It was upon the Threshing floor that his son, Solomon,

who was the wisest on earth, built the Temple made with hands. 

 

Before constructing and laying the foundation of a building,

the area must be SMOOTHED & LEVEL…THRESHED

 

This is why John the Baptist,

the one who Malachi prophesied would “PREPARE THE WAY”,

was sent before Jesus to “PREPARE PEOPLE’S HEARTS” 

and to make their “PATHS STRAIGHT, LEVEL, or SMOOTH”

because this was where Jesus was going to build His Temple.

Matthew 3 :  The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-20; John 1:19-28)

1In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.  4And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. 7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. 12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

LUKE 13 :  A CALL TO REPENTANCE (Joel 1:13-20; Amos 5:4-15; Zephaniah 2:1-3)

1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose you that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelled in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

Hebrews 12 : A Call to Holiness  (1 Peter 1:13-21)

13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.  

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  

HEBREWS 4 : GOD’S WORD IS LIVING AND ACTIVE

¹² For the word of God is living and active.   Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow.  It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.  ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.   

We are the oxen that God 

uses through his Holy Spirit to

 SEPARATE the grain [fruit] from the chaff,

& to SMOOTH OUT the rough

 

Just as we are the clay

that is molded by the

hands of potter

as it spins in a circle.

 

The CORNERSTONE (or FOUNDATION STONE or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

 

WE ARE THE LIVELY STONES, beginning with Peter (“rock”) that make up the rest of the Temple, and built upon the foundation laid by Christ and held together by the cornerstone.  Christ dwells in our hearts by faith, being rooted and grounded in love, so we may be able  to comprehend what is the breadth, length, depth, and height.

Matthew 16 :  Peter’s Confession of Christ (Mark 8:27-30; Luke 9:18-20; John 6:66-71)

13When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15He said to them, But whom say you that I am? 16And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven. 18And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

JESUS PREDICTS DEATH AND RESURRECTION (Mark 8:31-33; Luke 9:21-22)

21From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.22Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, Lord: this shall not be to you.23But he turned, and said to Peter, Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offense to me: for you mind not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

TAKE UP YOUR CROSS (Matthew 10:37-39; Mark 8:34-38; Luke 9:23-27)

24Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25For whoever will save his life shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28Truly I say to you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

We are “SET APART”

from the world,

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-because we are-

 

 

“RECONCILED” with God

 through His Son, the Stone of Israel

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Joel 3 : The Lord Judges the Nations 

13Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision^[h2742]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision^[h2742].

He works to carve His image into us

through 

His Holy Spirit

[h7926]שְׁכֶם shek-em   is also the name of a city in Canaan.  

 

SHECHEM was the 1st place God appeared to Abraham,  after being called out of Babylon and where he built the 1st altar to God 

 

SHECHEM was also where God renamed Jacob to “Israel”  

 

When we begin to understand the completeness of our JUSTIFICATION, we can rest and rejoice in the ongoing tribulation, discipline, chastening (correction), refinement of our SANCTIFICATION (process of being made Holy).   Just as following the Law does not make you justified,  but is an expression of the fact that you have been reconciled to Him.

Together we work and labor to EDIFY each other, which is “the act of building up” and promoting growth, by serving others and not ourselves.   Each stone is bound together (bundled/united) through the Holy Spirit, and we endeavour to keep the unity in the bond of Peace by walking with all lowliness, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another in love. 

 

We are built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.   

 

 

HEBREWS 12 : CHRIST’S SACRIFICE ONCE FOR ALL (Psalm 147:1-20; Romans 3:1-8)

1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. 7Then said I, See, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, See, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

FORESHADOWING  is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events.  The temple and sacrificial system established in the Law foreshadowed what Christ would do for us on the cross.  The law had a shadow of good things to come but it was not the very image.

Exodus 27 :  The Oil for the Lamps (Leviticus 24:1-4)

20And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. 21In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Olive oil does not need processing

but

you need the right kind of wick and lamp.

People have used olive oil with cotton or linen wicks to cleanse the air around them and to keep flames burning for light for thousand of years. Olive oil is 99% pure fuel; it does not produce smoke or soot and does not burn if spilled. Burning olive oil will smolder and put itself out or at least give you time to put it out. My understanding is that it is because olive oil has low volatility due to its high flash point (it won’t burn until it reaches 550°F), which is also why you need a much thicker wick than for a regular candle or kerosene lamp.

 

The key to burning olive oil is to keep the wick saturated at all times. The thickness of the oil affects the capillary action so soaking the wick in oil before lighting it works best. Use wicks with a large weave or even tightly twisted strips of cotton cloth. You can also make a wick from a cotton swab. Dip the swab into the oil and then twist the oiled end off of the swab stick and shape it into a teardrop. Float the “teardrop” onto the oil and light. Use low-grade olive oil. It will burn just as well as any high-grade olive oil, but will be cheaper. A little will go along way because it burns quite slowly. 

Matthew 25 :  The Parable of the Ten Virgins

1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him. 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.12But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. 13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.

THE CORRECT LAMP

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(the light)

 

 

 

 

 

THE WORD

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THE CORRECT LINEN WICK

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(which holds the flame & fire)

 

 

 

 

A PURE HEART

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(which contains the word)

OLIVE OIL

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(which fuels the wick to keep burning)

 

 

 

 

THE HOLY SPIRIT

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The fuel that cleanses and purifies 

and allows us to continue producing 

the resulting fruit that comes

from abiding in the Vine of Christ, the Word.

 

Olive Oil is the Fruit of the Olive Tree. 

Luke 24 :   Jesus Explains the Prophecies

25Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew near to the village, where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them.31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? 33And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. 35And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES (John 20:19-23; 1 John 1:1-4)

36And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace be to you.37But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. 40And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have you here any meat? 42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. 43And he took it, and did eat before them.

JESUS OPENS THE MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURES

44And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48And you are witnesses of these things. 49And, behold, I send the promise of my Father on you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.

THE ASCENSION (Mark 16:19-20; Acts 1:6-11)

50And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

His WORD 

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 is the

 BREAD of Life.

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The BREAKING OF BREAD represented

giving His disciples UNDERSTANDING of the scriptures.

Bread represented Jesus flesh because Jesus was the WORD made flesh

and his body was broken for us on the cross.  

Exodus 25 : TABLE OF BREAD

²³ Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: 2 cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ²⁴ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.  ²⁵ And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. ²⁶ And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. ²⁷ Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. ²⁸ And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. ²⁹ And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them. ³⁰ And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Matthew 4 : The Temptation of Jesus (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)

1Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. 3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be ma de bread. 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

“A Miller” is a person who operates a MILL,

which is a machine that grinds

the harvested wheat grain,

into flour,

which is used to make bread.

“Milling” is the process of separating and classifying aggregate material.  My last name is “Miller” which I got from my grandfather in the picture.  Gideon was threshing wheat when He was called by God. 

 

HOW GRAIN IS TURNED INTO BREAD

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GRAIN

is ground into 

FLOUR

FLOUR is then mixed with OLIVE OIL

to make

 DOUGH

Hebrews 4 :  A Sabbath-Rest for God’s People (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 16:22-36)

1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

DOUGH is then placed in oven  

to make

BREAD

  

LEAVENED BREAD (w/Yeast)

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Symbolizes HYPOCRISY

Puffed up with Pride. 

Talking the talk but not walking the walk.

 

 

UNLEAVENED BREAD

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Symbolizes SINCERITY

and abiding in Truth.

Walking the Walk of Faith

Fruit (Hebrew) [h6529] פְּרִי pᵉrîy (occurs 119 in 107)

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• anything produced or accruing; 
• product, result, or effect; return or profit +
• produce (of the ground);  
• offspring, children, progeny (of the womb); 
• of actions or thoughts (fig.) 

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Fruit (Greek)  [g2590] karpós (occurs 66 in 56)

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• that which originates or comes from something, an effect, result;
• to gather fruit (i.e. a reaped harvest) into life eternal (as into a granary),
• is used in fig. discourse of those who by their labours have fitted souls to obtain eternal life

from : ἁρπάζω harpázō, (occurs 17 in 13)

• to seize (in various applications): —catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).