HE+ Shall PURIFY the Sons of LEVI

REMEMBER:

You are dust, 
and to dust you shall return.

REPENT,

and believe the GOSPEL+. 

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Most HOLY and Most Merciful ABBA... 

We confess to THEE and to one another and to the whole communion of saints in Heaven and on earth and before Your Heavenly Host... 

that we have sinned

by our own fault

in thought, word, and deed; 

by what we have DONE

and by what we have

LEFT UN-DONE. 

 As it is written:

Thou shalt love The LORD thy GOD, The ELOHIM, with ALL thy heart, with ALL of thy soul, with ALL of thy mind, and with ALL  thy strength.  

This is the first and great commandment.

So now, we confess to THEE, O LORD:

We have not loved THEE with our whole heart...

No, rather, 

we have set our hearts on other things, other persons, other loyalties. We are divided in our loyalty to THEE; only a "part" do we give to THEE, alas. 


Yes, we love THEE and Thy Holy SON+ Y'SHU+,  ... but we have mingled our love of THEE with strange things that are NOT of THEE+.  We have placed strange fire upon Thy Altar, the altar of our hearts. 

Cleanse our hearts, O HOLY ONE+ of Israel, by the in-breathing of Thy Precious RUACH haKADOSH.  Help us to separate ourselves unto THEE+ during this season of the Preparation for the GREAT PASCHA. 

O HOLY FATHER, HOLY ABBA... we ask Thy help to find all the leaven in our house, in our temple, that we may make an offering to you in Righteousness ... after we remove those hateful things from our midst.   

What? know ye not .  .  .

 that your body is the temple 

of the RUACH HA KADOSH 
which is in you,
 which ye have of GOD, 
and ye 
are not your own?


For ye are bought 
with a PRICE+.


Therefore glorify GOD 

in your body, 

and in your spirit, 

which are GOD'S.
1 Corinthians 6: 19 -20

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 Create in me a clean heart, 

O GOD and renew a right spirit within me. 

Cast me not away 

from Thy+ Presence; 

and take not Thy RUACH ha KADOSH 

from me. 

Restore unto me 

the joy of Thy+ SALVATION; 

and uphold me with Thy free spirit.

Psalm 51

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Ashes to Ashes,

Dust to Dust

in sure and certain hope

of the Resurrection

unto Eternal Life

through

Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA

our LORD.

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Time to REBUILD the TRUE Temple of The LORD

Haggai 1:2

Thus speaketh YHWH of Hosts, saying,

This people say, 

The time is NOT come,

the time that the LORD’s house

should be built.

 1:3

Then came the word of the LORD

by Haggai the prophet, saying,

1:4

Is it time for you,

O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses,

and this house lie waste?

 …

 1:9

Ye looked for much,

and, lo it came to little;

 and when ye brought it home,

I did blow upon it.

 Why?

saith  YHWH of Hosts.

 

Because of Mine House

that is waste,

and ye run every man

unto his own house.

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Is it TIME YET ?

 

I Corinthians

3:16

 Know ye not that ye are

the Temple of GOD,

and that the SPIRIT of GOD

dwelleth in you?

3:17

If any man defile the Temple of GOD,

him shall GOD destroy;

for the Temple of GOD is holy,

which Temple ye are.

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Do not think for a minute that The LORD is lax about His Temple.

 

HE was not lax when HE brought His People out of Egypt.  HE was not lax when HE allowed His Temple to be destroyed by the Babylonians.

 

The Jews had so corrupted themselves that The SPIRIT of GOD abandoned their Temple, and the Destroying Nation was allowed to devastate the Corrupted Temple.

 

It had become VILE in the Eyes of The LORD. 

 

But do not think for a minute that The LORD is lax about His Temple .

 

HE was not lax back then;

HE is not lax now.

 

No, HE is NOT LAX now, either.

 

I Corinthians 3:16

 

Know ye not that ye are the

Temple of GOD,

and that the SPIRIT of GOD

dwelleth in you?

 

The Apostle Paul wrote this to born-again Christians, Followers of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA, who were living in Corinth, a greatly corrupted metropolitan city. 

3:17

If any man defile the Temple of GOD,

him shall GOD destroy;

for the Temple of GOD is Holy,

which Temple ye are.

 

The Apostle was NOT KIDDING. He was in dead earnest. In great seriousness he wrote this to BORN-AGAIN Followers of Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA who were already Saved. 

 

The Apostle’s message was this:  We cannot defile our temple because The RUACH ha KADOSH has been placed in it during Baptism ( Acts 2:38).

 

It is HIS+ TEMPLE NOW.

 

Thus,   WE  are  now

His+ LIVING Temple.

 

If we DO defile it, then our “temple” becomes VILE to The LORD and HE+ will destroy it. 

Defiling GOD’S TEMPLE is serious and The LORD is NOT LAX about how we are to conduct ourselves being His+ LIVING Temple .

 

What manner of life, then, are we to live ? 

 

We are to BUILD HIS+ TEMPLE

within our hearts…

not our own “temple”.

 

We are to sow to the SPIRIT … and not to the Flesh.

We are not to forsake the building of the Living Temple of GOD in favor of building our OWN temporal , earth-bound fiefdom.  It will bring death to our souls.

Rather… we lay hold on Eternal Life, to the which we have been called. We are to Cultivate the Salvation which has been given to us, with fear and trembling

… not nonchalance.

 

PRIORITIES of HEART and TIME and ENERGY

need to be re-focused on Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA first. 

HE+ will supply the rest,

as it is promised.

 

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The CLEANSING of the TEMPLE... The Temple of LIVING STONES !

The 2nd Cleansing of the Temple
Matthew 21:12

" From His+ eyes went forth rays

which TERRIFIED them and 

put them to flight." 

So reads a marginal note of a 13th century manuscript of the Aurora, by Peter of Riga, The Gospel of the Nazaraeans, footnoted at Matthew 21:12. 

See "Gospel Parallels" by Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., page 154 ,5th Edition, 1992, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tn. 1992 

[ The AUTHORITY of The MESSIAH+ was very evident in His+ Cleansing of the Temple, even to the religious leaders.]

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...and HIS+ eyes were 

as a Flame of Fire;

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The first act Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA did after His+ Triumphal entry into Jerusalem was to cleanse the Temple.

As a matter of fact, THAT is what HE+ went into Jerusalem TO DO ! 

HE+ drove out the BUYERS as well as the sellers of the livestock and doves and over-turned the tables of the money-changers. 

This was PASSOVER week, and they were going about business as usual. No fear of GOD there. How UN- holy ! 

Jerusalem was swollen with visitors coming for the Passover, to celebrate GOD'S great deliverance of the Hebrews from Pharaoh.  They were supposed to be mindful of GOD, not their pocketbooks. 

Once the un-scrupulous merchants were driven out of the Temple, the little ones, the blind, the lame , the crippled and infirm --- those who could afford nothing --- came to Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKA.  HE+ healed them, it is written. 

This was just a few days after HE+ raised Lazarus from the dead !

Prophecies that would identify HIM+ as the true Messiah+ were being fulfilled before their eyes... and the crowd went wild.  All of Jerusalem was in turmoil. 

The heavy hand of the Rule of Rome would soon be lifted, they thought. How glorious ! 

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Yes, the "Rule of Rome" would indeed be lifted... from their SOULS.  The people who walked in darkness had seen a GREAT Light, The LIGHT+ of the world. 

That LIGHT+ lifted the "Rule of Rome's"  values from their hearts; they would no longer be slaves to the worldly system that rules the hearts of men from their pocket-books. 

But, they would not. They willed not to be gathered as a hen clucks and gathers her chicks under her wings. 

They did not WANT freedom from sin, but rather, freedom from Roman rule.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem.... and JESUS wept.  HE+ could see ahead THEIR coming agony, THEIR thousands of citizens crucified on the hills and roads outside of Jerusalem. 

Yes, the earth-bound Roman rule was cruel and terrible. 

Sin's rule is WORSE. 

Roman rule only lasts 

for a life-time. 

Sins' consequences 

last for ALL Eternity.  

HE+ came to address them, first things first, and one at a time. First the Spiritual. Next will be the earth-bound rulers who pulverize His+ people. 

 Matthew 23: 37-38 

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 

thou that killest the prophets, 

and stonest them 

 which are sent unto thee, 

how often 

would I+ have gathered 

thy children together, 

even as a hen

 gathereth her chickens 

under her wings, 

and ye would not!

 Behold, 

your house is left 

unto you 

desolate.

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HEAR WHAT THE LORD SAYS: 

O WHOLE House of Israel, I+ have called to you to repent.  I+ have called to you to remove the leaven from your midst, and ye would not. 

What more can I+ do to save you from the sins that snare you ?  

Those very sins will ENTRAP you in the coming evil determined upon this earth. You will not be able to escape because you will not even SEE THE EVIL COMING until it is too late. 

No, I+ will not save America from judgement. I will not keep her from oppression SO THAT you can keep your wealthy life-styles, life-styles that are so far above other peoples of the earth. 

Do you "sit as a Queen and will be no widow?"  Think again.  I have NEVER SPARED my people who ignore my Words. 

I have NEVER SPARED my people who chase the world and call it "serving ME+." 

Those I+ love, I+ rebuke and chasten. 

Turn, turn from your worldly values. Separate from this world. Separate from this Camp of Korah... touch not the unclean money, the unclean flags, the unclean value system of Babylon the Great.

Serve ME+ in purity, with an UN-divided heart.  Then, and only then, shall you see the Salvation of your GOD ... when HE is truly your Master.

Divided loyalties will not be able to stand. You CAN NOT --- are not even ABLE --- to serve GOD   AND   Mammon . 

You will belong to Korah.  

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Revelation 1: 13 -18

¹³ And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the SON+ of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

¹⁴ HIS+ head and HIS+ hairs 

were white like wool, 

as white as snow; 

and HIS+ eyes were 

as a flame of fire;

¹⁵ And HIS+ feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and HIS+ voice as the sound of many waters.

¹⁶ And HE+ had in HIS+ right hand seven stars: and out of HIS+ mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and HIS+ countenance was as the sun shineth in HIS+ strength.

⁷ And when I saw HIM+, I fell at his feet as dead. And HE+ laid HIS+ right hand upon me, saying unto me, 

Fear not; 

I+ am the First 

and the Last:

¹⁸ I+ am HE+ that liveth, 

and was dead; 

and, behold, I+ am alive 

for evermore, 

Amen; 

and have the keys of hell 

and of death