Mal 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Elijah comes twice, each time preceding the Messiah.
Mat 17:10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
Mat 17:11 And answering, Jesus said to them, Elijah indeed comes first and shall restore all things.
Mat 17:12 But I say to you, Elijah already came, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they desired. So also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.
In order to see what the message of Elijah is, we must look to the life and words of Elijah and John the Baptist.
WHAT IS ELIJAH MESSAGE?
- Exposing Baal/mixed worship 1 Kings 18:21; Jeremiah 16:19
- Returning to Torah; Repentance 1 Kings 18:18; 19:8; Malachi 4:4; Deuteronomy 4 & 30; Isaiah 2
- Restoration of the name 1 Kings 18:39; Jeremiah 16:21
- Restoration of the tribes 1 Kings 18:31; Malachi 4:6; Mattew 3:9
- Teaching who the true Israel is, Election by grace is Matthew 3:9-12; Romans 11:1-5
- Preparation of the bride Luke 1:17; Revelation 19:7; Ephesians 5:25; 2 Timothy 3:16; Sirach 48:10
Returning to Torah; Repentance
Elijah preached repentance
1Ki 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
In the end of days Israel shall repent
Hos 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
The Tribulation is when the majority of people will repent and return to YHWH
Hos 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Rev 7:9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great crowd which no one was able to number them, out of every nation, even tribes and peoples and tongues, standing in front of the throne, and before the Lamb, having been clothed with white robes, and in their hands palm branches.
Rev 7:10 And they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.
Rev 7:11 And all the angels and of the elders and of the four living creatures stood around the throne. And they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
Rev 7:12 saying, Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength to our God forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These, the ones having been clothed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?
Rev 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.
Jer 3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Jer 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jer 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: ISA 27:12
Jer 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith 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.
Jer 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Jer 3:18 In 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 unto your fathers.
Jer 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Jer 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
Jer 3:21 A voice was heard upon 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.
Jer 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Jer 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains (Jeremiah 50:6): truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jer 3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jer 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Isa 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isa 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Isa 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
John the Baptist
Luk 1:16 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.
Luk 1:17 And he will go out before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah “to turn the hearts of fathers to their children,” and disobedient ones to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people having been prepared for the Lord. Mal. 4:5, 6
Luk 1:76 And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, Mal. 3:1
Luk 1:77 to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by remission of their sins,
Luk 1:78 through the tender heart of mercy of our God, in which the Dayspring from on high will visit us,
Luk 1:79 to appear to those sitting in darkness and in shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace. Isa. 9:2
Mat 3:1 Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the deserted places of Judea,
Mat 3:2 and saying, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.
Mat 3:3 For this is he spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight!” Isa. 40:3
What is repentance? Repentance is turning back to the Torah. The law of God, the law of Christ.
Eze 18:21 But the wicked, if he will turn from all his sins which he has done, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and righteousness, living he shall live; he shall not die.
Eze 18:30 I will judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel, declares the Lord YHWH. Turn and be made to turn from all your transgressions, and iniquity shall not be a stumbling-block to you.
Eze 18:31 Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I do not have delight in the death of him who dies, declares the Lord YHWH. So turn and live.
Deu 30:2 and shall turn back to YHWH your God and listen to His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Dan 9:13 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before YHWH our God that we might turn from our perversities and understand Your truth.
What is Truth?
Psa 119:142 Your righteousness is forever, and Your Law is truth.
When we repent we receive the Holy Spirit who leads us into the Truth and obedience
1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, of Galatia, of Cappadocia, of Asia, and of Bithynia,
1Pe 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Luk 3:4 as it has been written in the scroll of the Words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.
What is the Way of YHWH?
Psa 119:1 ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of YHWH.
What is preparing His paths?
Isa 57:14 And he shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling block rise from the way of My people.
Isa 62:10 Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people! Raise up! Raise up the highway; clear it from stones; lift up a banner over the peoples.
Isa 62:11 Behold, YHWH has made it to be heard to the end of the earth; Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold! Your salvation comes! Behold! His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
Isa 62:12 And they shall call them, The Holy People, the Redeemed of YHWH. And to you it shall be called, Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
What are the stumbling blocks?
Mat 13:40 Then as the darnel is gathered and is consumed in the fire, so it will be in the completion of this age.
Mat 13:41 The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all the offenses (Greek skandalon -stumbling blocks, snares), and those who practice lawlessness.
Mat 13:42 And they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.
Mat 13:43 Then the righteous will shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one having ears to hear, let him hear.
This is why John the Baptist said the following. The stumbling blocks/lawless ones will be burned with fire.
Mat 3:10 But already the axe is even laid at the root of the trees; therefore, any tree not bringing forth good fruit is cut off and is thrown into fire.
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than me, of whom I am not able to lift The sandals. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
Mat 3:12 whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and will gather His wheat into the storehouse. But He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
In the end of days the saints will be keeping the commandments and believing in Messiah
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are the ones keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.
THE RESTORATION OF THE RUINS
Preparing the way for Messiah, restoring the ancient paths.
WHO BUILDS THE OLD RUINS?
MESSIAH
Isa 49:6 And He said, It is too little that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light of the nations, that You may be My salvation to the end of the earth.
We become restorers of the ancient paths when the Messiah is dwelling in us and working through us
Isa 58:12 And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.
Returning to the sabbath is a big part of returning to YHWH.
Isa 58:13 If you turn your foot away because of the sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the sabbath a delight, to the holiness of YHWH, glorified; and shall glorify Him, to the holiness of not doing your own ways, from finding your own pleasure or speaking your word;
Isa 58:14 then you shall delight yourself in YHWH. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Jacob. For the mouth of YHWH has spoken.
The following prophecy in Isaiah 61 is about those who are clothed in the garments of salvation (Yeshua). They are the priests that have Messiah working through them and are restoring the ancient paths.
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Isa 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isa 61:10 Rejoicing I will rejoice in YHWH. My soul shall be joyful in my God. For He clothed me with garments of salvation; He put on me the robe of righteousness, even as a bridegroom dons as a priest his head-dress, and as a bride wears her ornaments.
THOSE SPOKEN OF IN EZEKIEL 36
Eze 36:24 For I will take you from the nations and gather you out of all the lands and bring you into your land.
Eze 36:25 Then I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.
Eze 36:26 And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.
Eze 36:28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be a people to Me, and I will be God to you.
Eze 36:33 So says the Lord YHWH: In the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built.
Eze 36:34 And the desolated land shall be cultivated, rather than being a ruin in the eyes of all passing by.
Eze 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolated has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted and desolated and razed cities are fortified and inhabited.
Eze 36:36 And the nations left all around you shall know that I, YHWH, built the razed places and planted that which was desolated. I, YHWH have spoken it and will do it.
Verse 33 says those are repent and return to the land and are filled with the Spirit will rebuild the waste places, then in verse 36 it says that YHWH builds those places. It is the concept of AMOS SPEAKS OF THIS SAME THING
Amo 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord YHWH are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; only that I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, declares YHWH.
Amo 9:9 For, behold, I will command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve; yet not a grain shall fall to the ground.
Amo 9:10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, those who say, The evil shall not draw near or confront us.
Amo 9:11 In that day I will raise up the booth of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;
Amo 9:12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations on whom My name is called, declares YHWH who is doing this.
Amo 9:13 Behold, the days are coming, declares YHWH, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who draws along seed. And the mountains shall drop new must, and all the hills will be dissolved.
Amo 9:14 And I will bring back the captivity of My people Israel. And they shall build the waste cities, and live in them. And they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amo 9:15 And I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be pulled up out of their land which I have given to them, says YHWH your God.
RESTORE THE DESOLATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS
Jer 16:19 O YHWH, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.
Jer 16:20 Can a man make gods to himself? But they are not gods!
Jer 16:21 And, behold, I will make them know; this time I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is YHWH.
Exposing Baal/ mixed worship
PAGAN CUSTOMS FORSAKEN
Jer 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Isa 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
Isa 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Isa 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Lev 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Lev 26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
Jer 50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jer 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Elijah battles Jezebel and Ahab
1Ki 18:18 And he answered, I have not disturbed Israel, but you and the house of your father, in that you have forsaken the commands of YHWH, and you have gone after the Baals.
Mixed worship, worship of the true God w/ heathen customs is the golden calf system
2Ki 17:15 And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, of whom YHWH had commanded them not to do like them.
2Ki 17:16 And they left all the commands of YHWH their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,
2Ki 17:27 And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Cause one of the priests whom you removed from there to go there, and they shall go and live there; and he shall teach them the custom of the God of the land.
2Ki 17:28 And one of the priests whom they exiled from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and he taught them how they should fear YHWH.
2Ki 17:32 So it was that they feared YHWH, and made for themselves, of the lowest of them, priests of the high places and they sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2Ki 17:33 They feared YHWH, and served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations from where they exiled them.
2Ki 17:34 To this day they do according to the former custom; they do not fear YHWH, and do not do according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances, and according to the Law, and according to the commandment that YHWH commanded the sons of Jacob, on whom He set His name, Israel.
2Ki 17:35 And YHWH made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;
2Ki 17:36 but YHWH who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a stretched out arm, you shall fear Him, and you shall bow yourselves to Him, and you shall sacrifice to Him;
2Ki 17:37 and the statutes, and the judgments, and the Law, and the commandments that He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever, and you shall not fear other gods;
2Ki 17:38 and the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods;
2Ki 17:39 but you shall fear YHWH your God, and He shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2Ki 17:40 But they did not listen, but did according to their former custom.
2Ki 17:41 And it happened, these nations feared YHWH, yet they served their graven images, both their sons and their sons’ sons. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day.
Zep 1:4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
Zep 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Baal worship done in the Temple of YHWH
2Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out from the temple of YHWH all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens. And he burned them at the outside of Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2Ch 33:7 And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
Baal worship involves Asherah
2Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out from the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens. And he burned them at the outside of Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Jdg 2:11 And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of YHWH, and served the Baals.
Jdg 2:12 And they forsook YHWH, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. And they went after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and angered YHWH.
Jdg 2:13 Yea, they forsook YHWH, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
Asherah=easter/queen of heaven
Jdg 2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Jer 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jer 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Act 19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Golden calf system
1Ki 12:28 And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
1Ki 12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
1Ki 12:30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan.
1Ki 12:31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1Ki 12:32 And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah; and he offered on the altar, so he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he made; and he made stand in Bethel the priests of the high places that he made.
1Ki 12:33 And he offered up on the altar that he made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast for the sons of Israel, and offered on the altar, to burn incense.
2Ki 17:16 And they left all the commands of YHWH their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,
Exo 32:4 And he took them from their hand and formed it with an engraving tool. And he made it a casted calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who made you go up from the land of Egypt.
Exo 32:5 And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it. And Aaron called and said, A feast to YHWH tomorrow.
Exo 32:6 And they rose early on the morrow, and they offered burnt offerings and brought near peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Examples of early congregations
Isa 57:14 And he shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling block rise from the way of My people.
Balaam
Another stumbling block that the spirit of Elijah seeks to move from the narrow path is pagan customs.
Rev 2:14 But I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol sacrifices, and to commit fornication.
Num 25:2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed themselves to their gods.
Num 25:3 And Israel was joined to Baal-peor, and the anger of YHWH burned against Israel.
Num 31:8 And they killed the kings of Midian, besides the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
Num 31:16 Behold, these through the counsel of Balaam became to the sons of Israel a deliverance of treachery against YHWH in the matter of Peor; and the plague was on the company of YHWH.
Deu 23:4 because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
2Pe 2:15 forsaking a straight path, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
2Pe 2:16 but had reproof of his own transgression, the dumb ass speaking in a man’s voice held back the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are springs without water, clouds being driven by tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept to the ages.
2Pe 2:18 For speaking over-swollen words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure those indeed escaping, the ones walking in error,
2Pe 2:19 promising to them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.
2Pe 2:20 For if by a recognition of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, they have escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they have been overcome by these, then their last things have become worse than the first.
2Pe 2:21 For it was better for them not to have recognized the way of righteousness than having recognized it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2Pe 2:22 But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: “The dog turning to his own vomit;” also, the washed sow to wallowing in mud. Prov. 26:11
Jud 1:11 Woe to them, because they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the speaking against of Korah!
Jezebel
Rev 2:20 But I have a few things against you, that you allow the woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My slaves to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol sacrifices.
Rev 2:21 And I gave time to her that she might repent of her fornication. And she did not repent.
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Ἰεζαβήλ
Iezabēl
Thayer Definition:
Jezebel = “chaste”
1) wife of Ahab, an impious and cruel queen who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets
2) the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed Christian liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols
Interesting that the name Jezebel, who is the personification of spiritual harlotry, means chaste. This is what the whore of Revelation is. On the outside she appears as the virgin bride of Messiah but in reality is a whore that commits spiritual fornication and causes millions upon millions in the world to do the same.
1Ki 16:30 and Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the eyes of YHWH above all who were before him.
1Ki 16:31 And it happened as if it were a light thing, that he walked in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took a wife, Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and bowed himself to it.
1Ki 16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1Ki 16:33 And Ahab made an Asherah, and Ahab did still more to provoke to anger YHWH the God of Israel than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
H856 אתבּעל ‘ethba‛al
BDB Definition:
Ethbaal = “with Baal”
Jezebel kills the prophets
1Ki 18:4 and it happened, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and had hidden them, fifty men in a cave, and had fed them with bread and water)
Neh 9:26 But they were disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them to You. And they worked great blasphemies.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and being gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her fornication.
Rev 17:5 And on her forehead was a name having been written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman being drunk from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled, seeing her, with a great marveling.
Restoration of the name
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Jer 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jer 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Jer 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD. PSA 86:9; MAL 1:11
The subject of the Sacred Name will be discussed in more detail in a future study. Suffice it to say, many in the end of days are having their eyes opened to the name of the Most High.
It is written in the book of Baruch that believers will think upon YHWH’s name and repent and return to Him. Then we shall be brought back to the Land.
Bar 2:30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
Bar 2:31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:
Bar 2:32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
Bar 2:33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
Bar 2:34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
Bar 2:35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
Malachi speaks of a similar prophecy
Mal 3:16 Then those fearing YHWH spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And YHWH gave attention and heard. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those who feared YHWH, and for those esteeming His name.
Mal 3:17 And they shall be Mine, says YHWH of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him.
Mal 3:18 Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.
Isa 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
Zep 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
Another thing that the spirit of Elijah is leading believers to in the end of days is the Hebrew language.
Why is knowing His Name so important in the end times?
Psa 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psa 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psa 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Pro 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Psa 20:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psa 20:6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Psa 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
1Sa 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1Sa 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
1Sa 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1Sa 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.
Restoration of the tribes
Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
1Ki 18:30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him; and he healed the altar of YHWH that had been broken down.
1Ki 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Word of YHWH came, saying, Israel shall be your name.
1Ki 18:32 And he built an altar with the stones in the name of YHWH, and made a trench around the altar large as two seahs of seed in space.
1Ki 18:33 And he arranged the wood, and cut the bull in pieces, and placed it on the wood, and said, Fill four water jars of water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.
1Ki 18:34 And he said, Do it a second time; and they did it a second time; and he said, Do it a third time; and they did it a third time.
1Ki 18:35 And the water went around the altar, and also he filled the trench with water.
1Ki 18:36 And it happened at the offering of the sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, O YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel, and I am Your servant, that by Your Word I have done all these things.
1Ki 18:37 Answer me, O YHWH, answer me; and this people shall know that You are YHWH God; and You shall turn their hearts back again.
1Ki 18:38 And fire fell from YHWH and burned up the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water in the trench was licked up.
1Ki 18:39 And all the people saw, and fell on their faces, and said, YHWH, He is the God; YHWH, He is the God!
This same miracle will be duplicated by the false prophet according to Revelation 13:13 which will bring together the false Israel into one, worshipping the Beast. The true
Sir 48:10 Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
Sir 48:11 Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we shall surely live.
Zec 8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
Zec 8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Isa 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Jer 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Eze 37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
Eze 37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Teaching who the true Israel (Chosen People) Election by grace
John the Baptist warns Israel that it is not by genealogy that you are saved. The olive tree (Israel) had ALL of its branches cut off. The only way back into the fold is through Messiah.
Mat 3:9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Mat 3:10 But already the axe is even laid at the root of the trees; therefore, any tree not bringing forth good fruit is cut off and is thrown into fire.
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than me, of whom I am not able to lift The sandals. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
Mat 3:12 whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and will gather His wheat into the storehouse. But He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Rom 11:1 I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham’s seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2 “God did not thrust away His people” whom He foreknew. Psa. 94:14 Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:3 Lord, “they killed Your prophets,” “and they dug down Your altars,” “and only I am left, and they seek my life.” 1 Kg. 19:10
Rom 11:4 But what does the Divine answer say to him, “I reserved to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow a knee to Baal.” 1 Kg. 19:18
Rom 11:5 So then, also in the present time a remnant according to election of grace has come into being.
The
ROM 9-11 NATURAL OLIVE TREE AT SINAI
Exo 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Before Israel met God at the mount they were told to prepare themselves and make themselves clean…this is another part of the Elijah message.
Exo 19:10 And YHWH said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow. And let them wash their clothes.
Exo 19:11 And be ready for the third day. For on the third day YHWH will go down before the eyes of all the people on the mountain of Sinai.
LITERAL DESCENDANTS OF JACOB & MIXED MULTITUDE CAME OUT OF EGYPT
Exo 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Exo 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
MESSIAH WILL REIGN OVER HOUSE OF JACOB
Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luk 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2 Every branch {G2814} in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch{G2814} cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches {G2814}: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
G2814 κλῆμα klēma klay’-mah From G2806; a limb or shoot (as if broken off): – branch.
We must abide in Messiah to stay in the olive tree of Israel. We don’t abide there because our forefathers did, we abide there through faith in Messiah.
YISRAEL’S BRANCHES BROKEN
Jer 11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Jer 11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Yisrael was cut off due to turning away from YHWH and worshipping Ba’al. This is another reason why the Elijah message is about turning away from Ba’al and back to YHWH.
The Messiah is Israel
Isa 49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Isa 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
Isa 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes (H7626) of Jacob, and to restore (shub) the preserved (v’netsri) of Israel.I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation (H3444yeshua) unto the end of the earth.
The only way to be restored, preserved and raised up is through Messiah Jesus.
Luk 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary, Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;
Luk 2:35 yea, a sword also will pierce your own soul, so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
H7626 שׁבט shêbeṭ shay’-bet
From an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, that is, (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: – X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
The tribes have always been sticks, branches, scions. Shebet means just that.
Eze 37:16 saying, And you, son of man, take one stick (etz-tree) to yourself and write on it, For Judah, and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick (etz) of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.
Eze 37:17 And draw them one to one for yourself, into one stick. And they shall become one in your hand.
ROMANS 11 THE REDEEMED OLIVE TREE OF ISRAEL
“GENTILES” and NATURAL BORN ISRAELITES ARE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL
Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Rom 11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Rom 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? (Eze 37; Zec 12:10; Mic 5:3)
Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit (1Cor 15:52) be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root (Isa 6:13; Gal 3:16) be holy, so are the branches (Joh 15:5).
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off (Jer 11:16), and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; (Isa 14:1; Deu 29:9-12; Zec 2:11)
Rom 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Rom 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Rom 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel (BOTH HOUSES) shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: (Isa 59:20; 45:25)
Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.….JEREMIAH 31:31 THE NEW COVENANT IS ONLY WITH THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL HEB 8:8; 10:16
WILD BRANCHES GRAFTED IN
Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
NATURAL BRANCHES GRAFTED IN
Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
GRAFTING (SCION)
What is the definition of scion(pronounced Zion)???
Scion
SCION. [See Cion.]
Cion
CION, n. A young shoot, twig or sprout of a tree, or plant, or rather the cutting of a twig, intended for ingrafting on another stock; also, the shoot or slip inserted in a stock for propagation.
Isa 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
Those grafted into the Olive Tree are Zion, the new creation
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (G544), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
G5449 φύσις phusis
foo’-sis
From G5453; growth (by germination or expansion), that is, (by implication) natural production (lineal descent); by extension a genus or sort; figuratively native disposition, constitution or usage: – ([man-]) kind, nature ([-al]).
Phusis is translated as species and kind
Jas 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
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We are new creatures in Him
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The Olive Tree is Jesus, when we are grafted into Him we partake of His divine nature. We become the Israel of God.
Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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Preparation of the bride
Zion is the new creation…ie virgins. They are the bride of Messiah. The Elijah message is about preparing that bride to meet her Husband, to be without spot or wrinkle before Him.
Elijah message prepares the people of YHWH
Luk 1:17 And he will go out before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah “to turn the hearts of fathers to their children,” and disobedient ones to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people having been prepared for the Lord. Mal. 4:5, 6
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Without blemish in Hebrew is tamim which is translated as perfect or mature. That is what the end product of the Elijah message is. A people prepared for the coming of Messiah, holy and mature.
We are perfected through the Word by the work of the Spirit
Psa 18:32 It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect;
He is the Potter we are the clay.
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Isa 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isa 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jer 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jer 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Jer 18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Luk 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary, Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;
As the above Scriptures state, Israel was broken down due to idolatry and wickedness. Jesus rebuilds Yisrael. He reforms the lump of clay. He grafts the branches back into Himself. Much of the Elijah message is focusing on correcting the errors that Israel has made in the past. Israel feared YHWH but also worshipped idols. Israel put a ban on saying the Sacred Name. Israel did away with the Torah through adding and taking away from it through the oral law or altogether forsook through Hellenization or even earlier in the days before the northern tribes went into captivity.
The Messiah will dash His enemies in pieces
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Psa 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
How do we avoid this? Do not get stiffnecked/disobedient, but let the water of the word cleanse you so He can mold you into the image He desires. This is why the Elijah message is of utmost importance. Those who are not prepared to meet Messiah will be cast out from His presence (Mtt 7:21-23)
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
2Ch 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked {Deu 10:16}, as your fathers were, but yield
yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
The mature Bride will be in the image of Messiah
Citizens of Zion
Messiah in us, is the Kingdom in us (Lk 17:20-21). We as His body are being formed into His image by His Spirit. This is what a citizen of Zion is, a perfect/mature image of Messiah.
Psa 15:1 A Psalm of David. O YHWH, who shall dwell in Your tabernacle? Who shall live in Your holy mountain?
Psa 24:3 Who shall go up into the hill of YHWH? And who shall rise in His holy place?
Psa 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity and has not sworn deceit.
Psa 24:5 He shall lift up the blessing from YHWH, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psa 24:6 This is the generation of those seeking Him; they seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O gates; and be lifted up, O everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.
Psa 24:8 Who is this King of Glory? YHWH strong and mighty! YHWH mighty in battle!
Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O gates; even lift up, O everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.
Psa 24:10 Who is this King of Glory? YHWH of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selah.
Psalm 15 & 24 speaks of those w/ cleans hands and a pure heart (filled w/ the Spirit, in the image of Messiah) They lift up THE Blessing (salvation through Messiah) and Righteousness from God. The end of the Psalm speaks of the King of Glory coming in, spiritually this is being fulfilled now when Messiah enters your heart and rules and reigns, in the future this prophecy will happen in its fullest when He comes to earth to rule and reign.
THE BLESSING
Act 3:16 And on the faith of His name, this one whom you see and know was made firm by His name, and the faith which came through Him gave to him this complete soundness before you all.
Act 3:17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted according to ignorance, as also did your rulers.
Act 3:18 But what things God before proclaimed through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.
Act 3:19 Therefore, repent, and convert, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,
Act 3:20 and that He may send forth the One before proclaimed to you, Jesus Christ,
The Elijah Message is about restoring all things. This must happen before Messiah returns
Act 3:21 whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age past
Act 3:22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, “The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, One like me; you shall hear Him according to all things,” whatever He may speak to you. See Deut. 18:15-16, 19
Act 3:23 And it shall be that of every soul, whoever should not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 And also all the prophets, from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, also before announced these days.
Act 3:25 You are sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, “Even in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Gen. 22:18
Act 3:26 Having raised up His child Jesus, God sent Him first to you, blessing you in turning away each one from your iniquities.
These are those who are covered in the garments of Jesus(they are in His image)
Isa 61:6 But you shall be called, Priests of YHWH; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and you shall revel in their glory.
Isa 61:7 Instead of your shame and disgrace, double. They rejoice in their portion; for they shall possess a second time in their land; everlasting joy shall be theirs.
Isa 61:8 For I, YHWH, love judgment, hating plunder in burnt offering. And I will give their work in truth; and I will cut an everlasting covenant for them.
Isa 61:9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed that YHWH has blessed.
Isa 61:10 Rejoicing I will rejoice in YHWH. My soul shall be joyful in my God. For He clothed me with garments of salvation; He put on me the robe of righteousness, even as a bridegroom dons as a priest his head-dress, and as a bride wears her ornaments.
Rom 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make forethought of the flesh, for its lusts.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave Himself up on its behalf,
Eph 5:26 that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the Word,
Eph 5:27 that He might present it to Himself as the glorious assembly, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Eph 5:31 “For this, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:24
Eph 5:32 The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly.
Gal 3:26 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many as were baptized into Christ, you put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is no slave nor freeman, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if you are of Christ, then you are a seed of Abraham, even heirs according to promise.
Rev 19:7 Let us rejoice and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife prepared herself.
Rev 19:8 And it was given to her that she be clothed in fine linen, pure and bright; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
Citizens of Zion and the 144,000
Psa 87:1 For the Sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psa 87:2 YHWH loves the gates of Zion more than all the tents of Jacob.
Psa 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
Psa 87:4 I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Psa 87:5 And it shall be said to Zion, This man and that man was born in her; and the Highest Himself shall establish her.
The citizens of Zion come out of Babylon, Egypt, etc and have their citizenship in heaven.
Psa 87:6 In recording the peoples YHWH shall mark down, This man was born there. Selah.
Psa 87:7 And the singers, the players of the pipe: all my springs are in You. Rev 14 talks about the song only 144,000 sing
Heb 12:22 But you have drawn near Mount Zion, even the city of the living God, to a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
Heb 12:23 and to a gathering, an assembly of the first-born ones having been enrolled in Heaven; and to God the Judge of all, and to spirits of just ones who have been perfected;
Heb 12:24 and to Jesus the Mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling speaking better things than that of Abel.
Heb 12:25 Watch that you do not refuse the One speaking; for if these did not escape, who refused Him who divinely warned them on earth, much rather we, those turning away from Heaven;
Heb 12:26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once” “I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” Hag. 2:6
Heb 12:27 Now the words “Yet once” make clear the removal of the things being shaken, as having been made, so that the things not being shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28 For this reason, receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, by which we may serve God pleasingly, with reverence and awe;
Heb 12:29 for also, “Our God is a consuming fire.” Deut. 4:24
Rev 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! And with Him were a hundred and forty four thousands, with the name of His Father having been written on their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a sound out of Heaven, as a sound of many waters, and as a sound of great thunder. Also I heard a sound of harpers harping on their harps.
Rev 14:3 And they sing as a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty four thousands, those having been redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones following the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed from among men as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And no guile was found in their mouth, for they are without blemish before the throne of God.
Psa 24:3 Who shall go up into the hill of YHWH? And who shall rise in His holy place?
Psa 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity and has not sworn deceit.
Psa 24:5 He shall lift up the blessing from YHWH, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
The Kingdom Within
Luk 17:21 nor will they say, Lo, here! Or, Lo, there! For behold the kingdom of God is in your midst.
The Kingdom within you, is the Messiah within you
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
1Jo 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Word In You
Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
1Jo 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
2Jo 1:2 For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Spirit In you
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
SPIRIT REPRESENTS BOTH FATHER AND SON
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Spirit is given to obedient ones
1Jo 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Joh 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
Paul talks about the Kingdom w/in you or the Messiah w/ in you. In both letters he refers to maturity.
Col 1:26 the mystery having been hidden from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to His saints;
Col 1:27 to whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
Col 1:28 whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man full-grown in Christ Jesus,
Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Rom 14:18 For the one serving Christ in these things is pleasing to God, and approved by men.
Rom 14:19 So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.
The citizens of Zion will be perfect/mature, this is why it is so important to have the kingdom w/in you, the Messiah w/ in you.
Rom 8:9 But you are not in flesh, but in Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, this one is not His.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba! Father!
Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
Rom 8:17 And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint-heirs of Christ, if indeed we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
Rom 8:18 For I calculate that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to compare to the coming glory to be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but through Him subjecting it, on hope;
Rom 8:21 that also the creation will be freed from the slavery of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that all the creation groans together and travails together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only so, but also we ourselves having the firstfruit of the Spirit, also we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly expecting adoption, the redemption of our body;
Rom 8:24 for we were saved by hope, but hope being seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, through patience we wait eagerly.
Rom 8:26 And likewise the Spirit also joins in to help our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with groanings that cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 But the One searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He petitions on behalf of the saints according to God.
Rom 8:28 But we know that to the ones loving God all things work together for good, to those being called according to purpose;
Rom 8:29 because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
Rom 8:30 But whom He predestinated {Aramaic ruoshma=mark}, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Aramaic 
Ruoshma
The mark of the beast being the antithesis to the mark of YHWH (the Word) is further emphasized by delving into the meaning and usage of the Aramaic word for mark (ruoshma). This is the same word used in Revelation 13 as the mark of the beast. Those with the mark of YHWH are the mature bride, those with the mark of the beast are the bride of the adversary.
Rom 8:29 He knew them in advance and he marked (Gk predestined)the likeness of the image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
Eph 1:4 according as he had previously chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and without blame before him; and, in love, predestinated(Gk chosen) us for himself;
The 144,000/mature bride have the mark of YHWH/His Name/His Word in their foreheads. The Sons of YHWH are marked with His mark, the sons of the serpent are marked with his mark.
This is why the return to the Word in the end of days is so important. It is so we can meet our Husband and be a bride that is pleasing in His sight.
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 so that the man of God may be perfected, being fully furnished for every good work.
The Law of YHWH is perfect
Psa 19:7 The Law of YHWH is perfect, converting the soul. The Testimony of YHWH is sure, making the simple wise.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Rom 12:3 For through the grace which is given to me, I say to everyone being among you, not to have high thoughts beyond what is right to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God divided a measure of faith to each.
Rom 12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, but all members do not have the same function,
Rom 12:5 so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another,
Rom 12:6 but having different gifts according to the grace given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith;
The Righteousness of the Torah being fulfilled through us.
2Co 4:10 always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body.
2Co 4:11 For we who live are always being delivered up to death on account of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh;
Rom 8:4 so that the righteous demand of the Law might be fulfilled in us, those not walking according to flesh, but according to Spirit.
Look at this amazing connection in Ephesians 4
Eph 4:10 He that came down is the same who also went up above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.
Eph 4:11 And indeed He gave some to be apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 with a view to the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,
Eph 4:13 until we all may come to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 so that we may no longer be infants, being blown and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the sleight of men, in craftiness to the deceit of error,
Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, the Christ,
Eph 4:16 from whom all the body, having been fitted and compacted together through every assisting bond, according to the effectual working of one measure in each part, produces the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love.
Eph 4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Eph 4:24 and to put on the new man, which according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph 4:25 Therefore, putting off the false, “speak truth each with his neighbor,” because we are members of one another. Zech. 8:16
Notice how Paul connects the new man, the mature bride in His image with not speaking deceit. This goes back to Psalm 24:4 and those who will ascend into Yah’s holy hill of Zion.
James makes the connection of the perfect implanted word which saves our souls. Jesus is the Word made flesh, implanted w/in us.
Jas 1:21 On account of this, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of evil, in meekness receive the implanted Word being able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Jas 1:23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, this one is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror;
Jas 1:24 for he studied himself, and has gone away, and immediately he forgot of what kind he was.
Jas 1:25 But the one looking into the perfect Law of liberty, and continuing in it, this one not having become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.
Isa 2:5 Oh house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of YHWH.
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