This is the time when all Israel left their dwellings, their cities, all their treasures and everything they worked for throughout the year. Now they would join with the whole Nation and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. They built booths out of branches each booth would have at least 3 closed sides. All the children of Israel joined in the city of Jerusalem together. This feast is much like our Thanks Giving. All over America we have been celebrating in part this feast. This thought should bring joy to all of us.
God promised Israel if they left their properties he would protect their lands while they were attending the feasts. The only real protection from the thief is our obedience to the Lord. If anything is lost is it worth keeping? Oh, churches hear the word of the Lord. Leave your denominations, your images and idols, put away the vain thing and serve the Lord your God with all diligence to keep the unity of the Faith of God. Contend for the faith, which was once and for all delivered to the saints. Let us offer unto the Lord a burnt offering and sacrifice all that is so dear to us that we might attain the prize of the high calling of God. A meat offering that speaks better things and not the things of self-will and self-worship, a meat offering that speaks my will is to do thy will of oh, God!
Everything was left behind on this day, every weight that so easily besets us, every civil disobedience and every sin against the body of Christ. All our sins let us lay upon the scapegoat’s head forever. If we empty ourselves we will see and discern the Lord’s body. We leave what seems so dear or right to us, now, and follow on to know the Lord. The wine is in the cluster and the wine must have a wineskin to contain it. The wineskin is the church in every city even if it is only a few. Willing believers who will leave their glass cathedrals, their possessions and positions, their beautiful houses of worship and build a booth a simple abode to worship the Lord in the place he has chosen. For I do not dwell in houses made by hands or in the thoughts of man but I dwell in the place I have chosen, “within my believers.” You are the called out ones who assemble themselves together and how much more as you see the day approaching? The Seventh Feast, the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day from Adam, the third day from Christ marks the end of the sixth day. The end of the day man controls the church and the entering into the seventh day the great Feast of Tabernacles.
Haggai 1:3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?"
Haggai 1:7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD. (NIV)
Is it right we keep building our own places of worship while the house of God lays wasted? How long will we continue to worship in sealed houses where the presence of the Holy Spirit cannot abide? The Holy Spirit will not take residence in places of worship that has man’s name of the doorpost. “When I see the blood I will Passover you.” For 2000 years men have been building their own kingdoms and asking God to bless it. It is shame for these places to be called churches for they are not churches but sects. Denominations are not the will of God. Now a denomination may point to a time the glory of God was upon them but when man organized them into a plan of worship and gave them a name they became sects; a sect is the kingdom of man ruling over its people by doctrine and human power.
Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
It is time to consider our ways. We have not seen the power of God in our midst because we have not ceased from our own work. We eat and drink but we are not satisfied. We clothe ourselves with religion but we are not warm. Like Adam and Eve tried to hide their nakedness we clothe our nakedness with religious rituals. We earn money but are always poor. We are admonished to consider our ways. Go up to the mountain where we can see Jesus and obtained the proper materials to build his house in every city. We will find glory; we will see his glory in the earth when we build according to the pattern (die) showed to us on the mountain. “Oh come out of her my people!”
Haggai 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 the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands
All the human effort we have exerted for theses past centuries has not brought an abundance of rain and fruit to the earth. We have had times when the glory of God poured out but it always dissipated in to nothing. Many of us can point to the Great Awakening, Pentecost in the early 1900’s, Latter Rain in 1948, Charismatic outpouring, the Toronto Blessing and many more. These are only movements and they did not have the staying power of the Holy Spirit. Man cannot keep his hand off the ark. Man cannot cease from his own works. Therefore, the corn, wine and oil are limited the labor of our hands has brought forth a drought in our land. There are no cattle in the stall the ministry to plow the ground grind the corn to feed the hungry souls. The donkey is not there to take us up the mountain to higher ground. All this happens because we do not build the house of the Lord in every city. We have maintained our own house but neglected the building of the Lord.
Haggai 1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God.
The ministries are called to hear and obey the voice of the Lord. The people, the remnant are called to hear and obey the word of the Lord. We are called in this day to hear and obey the voice and the word of the Lord. The prophets sent by God have spoken a clear word trumpeted the urgency to hear and obey the word of the Lord in this hour. We join with each other in every city to do the work in the house of the Lord of host our God. He who hears the trumpet let him bow his knee and submit to the voice of the Lord. Let those who have built their own houses leave them, come and join in the building of House of the Lord. The set time to favor the stones in the dust has come. We cease from the work of man. We are devoted to the work of God. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come for thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Ps. 102:13-14 It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. The Spirit spoke to the church of Laodicea’s Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev. 13:17-18 The writer is convinced that most church leaders who have built great kingdoms will not relinquish their hold on what they have built. They look to numbers to define their success. The amount of salary and perks they receive from the tithes of the believer’s leads them to a false sense of humility and felling of accomplishment. The spirit does not talk to the leaders but only to him that has an ear to hear. Do we see how blind, poor and naked we really are in these houses of sects? Oh, how wretched, miserable we are without the power an anointing of the Holy Spirit. Sooner or later we will come to realize how many laps we keep taking around the mountain. Soon we will come to realize we have been in the wilderness for 2,000 years.
The manna we have been served from these leaders is nothing but dove’s dung. Let us come to our senses like the four lepers in the book of Kings. If we stay in this city of Babylon, baby land, we will surely die for all they eat is asses’ heads and dove’s dung. This is none other than man’s doctrines and religious ideas of God. The lepers came to their senses rose up to find that the mighty man of war had proceeded them by over taking the enemy leaving them food and riches more than they could have imagined. At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Syrians. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there . . . 2Kings 7:2
Oh, glory hallelujah no man was there. Oh let us come to our senses rise up move against the enemy of division that has brought starvation to the body of Christ. It was at dusk or evening, yes the beginning of a new day before the Lord, the seventh day or the Feast of Tabernacles. Shall we follow on to know the Lord and reject the doctrines of man? The word Syrians (aram) means a citadel, a castle or place. It is a stronghold a place which man has elevated his doctrines and teachings to high place of power and surrounded the city where the citizens are held captive. However, the four lepers, the castaways, the unclean, the rejected were the ones who rose up and set the city free. For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: The moment they rose up the Lord made. Let us rise up we the wretched ones for the Lord will fight for us When we take this step we will find gold tried in the fire, white raiment and eye salve to see and obtained the kingdom of God. We will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in every city. 2Kings 7
We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. They came to the strong hold of the evil one and there was no man or voice of man there. The horses represent the power ministry of the Holy Spirit and donkeys the beast of burdens, which can take us too high places. The tents represent the booths pitched to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. Yes, when our hearts rise up we will find everything we need to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles; knowing all has been provided by the Mighty Man of War. Then they said one to another, we do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come that we may go and tell the king's household. Though it may still be night this is a day of good tidings and day for those whom the Lord has called to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. Let us blow the trumpet to the entire King’s household calling all that will hear, “It is time for the feast of Unity to begin in our hearts that we may worship the Lord in the Place he has chosen.” the voice 1998
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