God’s judgment on Babylon and the gathering in Mount Zion.
The principle of Babylon is that which man has built to make a name for himself.
Gen. 11:4 “And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
How about Jesus telling us to “store up treasures in heaven”?
So he instructed his followers to invest themselves through poured out lives in the way of the cross, to invest in eternity, and then compare this to the saints recorded in Hebrews 11.
That one command of Jesus answers the whole Laodicean lie, in one sentence.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:19-21
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.”– Luke 12:33
In Matthew 19:16-30, The rich young ruler of his own earthly kingdom asked:
“Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” – Matthew 19:16
Jesus first tests him on the law: Have you kept commandments?
He says, “All these I have kept since I was a boy. What do I still lack?” (Verse 20)
He kept external morality, but he lacked internal likeness to Jesus. He was obedient to external written laws but not godly. He had morality without the cross. He lacked the accelerating glory of the new covenant gospel of Jesus Christ in becoming like Him as laid out in 2 Corinthians: 3.
What we are called to in becoming like Jesus- we must understand the following:
You are like a letter that Christ himself has written which must reflect Him, and not self.
You show people by the way you now conduct your lives, that God has changed your lives as a result of His transformation work in you, after the pattern and example of His Son.
People did not find out about you by reading a letter that was written to them on paper with pen and ink.
Instead, they saw how the Spirit of the all-powerful God has changed your lives and you became a vessel manifesting His Presence, power and glory.
Nor did people find out about you by reading a letter that was carved on stone slabs like the stone slabs that God gave to Moses. Instead, it was the change that God’s Spirit made in your lives that they saw.
As with the Laodicean church: what does it help to have a doctorate in Divinity and all the diplomas of every Bible school on earth, yet you lack the very image and likeness of the God you claim to worship?
What does it profit a man to sell his soul to the devil for money and fame amongst men, yet end up being rejected by God?
Your doctorate and Bible school diplomas, yes the letters of recommendation given by man’s church, means nothing unless you become a living epistle written by the Spirit of God; unless you produce the fruits of righteousness through repentance in obedience to Christ unto the death of self, as you follow Him in the way of the cross.
God’s instruction given to a typical Laodicean rich man – “If you want to be perfect (teleios – mature, complete) like Me, reflecting the gold of Godly character and the nature of Christ,
go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.” – Matthew 19:21
This is the word God gave me for the Laodicean church leaders, which agrees with Job 22:
22 Allow Him to teach you, and keep thinking about what He has told you.
23 If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,
24 if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir land,
25 and if you allow Almighty God to be as precious to you as your gold and your silver have been.
Notice the exact transfer we have been talking about:
1. Sell your possessions – Break the altar of greed in your heart.
2. Give to the poor – Not give to build my empire, give to feed sheep! It is His Ezekiel 34 and book of Acts pattern.
3. You will have treasure in heaven – Luke 12:33
4. Then come, follow Me – On the way of the cross, with no house, no place to lay your head, content with food and clothing.
Just ask those who have been completely emptied of self and all earthly desires, as obedient disciples in the way of the cross- so we might become like Him and be filled with Him, we all had to pay the price.
Jesus wasn’t telling him to buy salvation.
He was telling him the price of becoming LIKE Jesus and a scripture you never hear from the pulpits of the greedy hirelings of the Laodicean church is – Luke 14:25-33 – and Jesus says it three times in one passage, back to back, so no one can miss it. This is the clearest discipleship cost teaching in the New Testament, and it’s why Laodicea never preaches through Luke 14.
Jesus is talking to large crowds – the crowd that would have been thrilled to have Him build a mega ministry. He turns to them and deliberately thins the crowd with three “cannot be my disciple” conditions:
Luke 14:25-33
25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be My disciple.”
27 “And whoever does not carry their cross and follow Me cannot be my disciple.”
Then He gives two parables – the man building a tower who must first count cost, and the king going to war who must count his troops – both about calculating if you can finish what you start?
Then He lands the final blow:
33 “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be My disciples.”
Greek: apostassetai pasin tois heautou hyparchousin – literally “renounces, bids farewell to, leaves behind all his own possessions.”
Not 10%. All.
Three “cannot be my disciple” conditions:
1. Cannot unless you put Him above even family and your own life. (In verse 26 – hate means “love less than” in comparison.
Not abuse family, but Christ first.
2. Cannot unless you carry your cross – v27 – the poured out, crucified life – Galatians 6:14, Philippians 2 and 3.
Cannot unless you renounce all your possessions – v33 – the rich young man test – Matthew 19:21
Most preach Luke 14:26 and 27, but skip verse 33 because verse 33 turns it from sentiment to economics. It’s the verse that breaks the tithe lie completely.
Because tithe says: Give me 10% and you can keep 90% and still be a disciple, blessed.
Jesus says:You must be willing to give up 100% to be My disciple. Then I will decide what you steward.
That is why Paul could say in Acts 20:33-35:
“I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.'”
And why he could say in Philippians 4:11-12,
“I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”
The secret is verse 33 (Luke 14:33) – when you have already given up everything in your heart, whether you have plenty or little, you are free. Godliness with contentment is great gain.
The man who has renounced all can say, as Peter said in Acts 3:6: “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you.”
And that is enough to make the lame walk, and to clothe and fill the laid down emptied out vessel with the Presence, the power and the glory of Almighty God.
What did the rich young man have to become? Exactly what Philippians 2 says Jesus became:
Philippians 2:6-8 is the price tag:
“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!”
Step by step:
• Jesus WAS rich – “being in very nature God” – infinite wealth, glory, heaven’s throne
• He did NOT consider equality as something to exploit for Himself – opposite of Laodicean teaching which says use God to get advantage for self
• He MADE HIMSELF NOTHING – ekenosen – He emptied Himself, poured Himself out. That’s the same phrase as “poured out life”
• Taking the nature of a servant – not The CEO of a “religious empire.”
• Being made in human likeness – He became homeless, touchable, friend of the lowest, the broken and the needy.
• He HUMBLED himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross – the ultimate “sell all.”
The Father then says in verse 9: “Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name.”
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU A KING IN HEAVEN IS DESPISED AND REJECTED ON THIS EARTH, AND WHAT MAKES YOU A KING ON THIS EARTH THROUGH THE PRIDE, LUST AND GREED OF YOUR UNMORTIFIED SELF, IS WHAT DISQUALIFIES YOU TO BECOME A KING IN HEAVEN.
The pattern is always: Pour out -> then God exalts. Not exalt self to prove God through earthly own Kingdom building.
Now back to the young man:
Jesus, who walked that Philippians 2 path Himself, looked at this young man He loved – Mark 10:21 says “Jesus looked at him and loved him” – and said: If you want to be like Me – teleios, complete, a firstfruits, a manchild who rules – you must walk the same emptying I walked.
You cannot be like Jesus in power without being like Jesus in emptying. You cannot carry the riches of God’s Mountain Isaiah 25 feast- without first letting go of the pride, lust and greed of Egypt.
Yes beloved of God, there is going to be a final harvest and a great exodus through the Valley of Jehoshaphat in which the righteous Judge of all the earth comes to confront those who have not obeyed His upward call in His Son, to become like Jesus and the pattern, type and shadow as during the exodus of Moses we see in Ezekiel 20:
6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
7 I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”
10 “‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness. (the wilderness of their own tribulation where hearts are weighed, tested and exposed before the Lord)
30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?
35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign LORD.
37 I will make you pass under the shepherd’s staff, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign LORD says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.
40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign LORD, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.
41 When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
There’s coming a gathering through a great scattering and those gathered shall feast from the bounty of the King’s table in the midst of tribulation. The Spirit of God has taken me as an end-time prophetic forerunner/seer through the veil into that feast, even the final preparations being made, which He calls “The birthday party of the Son”, as Christ unveiled Himself through the first-fruits manifested sons of God in the Mountain of His holy habitation.
It’s going to be the Harvest Feast of great joy and celebration and at the end of 2023, I saw Jesus standing at the table of the marriage feast of the bride and the Bridegroom, and He held up a bottle of His best wine saved for last, in the one hand, and an empty glass in the other, then He declared:
“NO ONE CAN POUR A GOOD WINE LIKE OUR KING. THE FESTIVITIES ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN !”
Read Isaiah 24-26
This is why the true laid down “wise virgin company” of true disciples and followers of Christ comes through decades of trial, of personal purging and the furnace of afflictions to be matured within the fire 🔥 until we look exactly like Jesus, and to be wise Spirit led stewards of the greater glory of the latter house final harvest Zechariah 10- Pentecost outpouring, which shall also be God’s judgment on the churches of men who have fallen back into their own ways, who have raised fleshly goats through the straw, chaff and the wood of their intellectual reasoning and wrong doctrines through deceptive interpretation of the Bible, as Jesus declared to me “these people have used My Word to create their own religion.”
It’s going to be the 1 Corinthians 3 judgment and exposure of all foundations on which men have built.
1 Corinthians 3
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
11 For no one is able to lay any other foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13 each one’s work will be revealed; for the Day will declare it, because it will be disclosed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work is consumed, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
The same as Malachi 4:
1 For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud and everyone that does wickedness shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave to them root or branch.
2 But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise up, with healing on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do this, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Joy in Trials
James 1
2 My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
In other words:
He matures us in the fire until we become the fire, until godly character has been wrought out in those who subjects themselves to the baptism of the threshing floor of Jesus Christ so that the impurities of the chaff of our fleshly nature might be completely burned out until we only reflect the image and likeness and took on the divine nature of the Son of God as those to be revealed as the glorified manifested sons of God.
This is the suffering and glory spoken of in Romans 8:
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed unto us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
The prosperity gospel of greed in actual fact says:
“Sell out Jesus like a Judas, and become sons of perdition, completely contrary to Christ, proud men, understanding nothing, but who are sick with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, slander, evil conjecture, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. 1 Timothy 6
Store up for yourself treasures on earth and call it proof that God has stored treasure for you in heaven.
Jesus says the opposite: Store up treasure in heaven by not storing it on earth.
How?
He tells us plainly how to transfer wealth from earth to heaven – it’s the only wire transfer that works:
The cross is the transfer.
• Earth says: Gain is to keep.
• Heaven says: Gain is to pour out.
“Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me. (BECOME AS I AM)
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for Me will find it.” – Matthew 16:24-25
A poured out life is how you invest in eternity.
You don’t sow money to a man to get money back.
You pour out yourself as a drink offering – Philippians 2:17 – and God records it in heaven where rust cannot touch it and moth cannot destroy it.
Paul understood it: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” Galatians 2:20.
“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” – Galatians 6:14
Paul had everything to boast in by the world’s standard – and by the religious world’s standard. Philippians 3:4-6 lists his Laodicean CV:
• Circumcised on the eighth day – born into the right religious family • Of the people of Israel, tribe of Benjamin – right lineage • A Hebrew of Hebrews – right culture, speaks the right language • In regard to the law, a Pharisee – right doctrine • As for zeal, persecuting the church – right passion, even leadership anointing • As for righteousness based on the law, faultless – right performance, tithes paid, offerings perfect.
If anyone could have built an external religious empire on prosperity principles, it was Saul of Tarsus.
What did he do with that CV (Resume) after he met Jesus?
“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.
I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ.” – Philippians 3:7-8
Garbage – the Greek is skubala – dung, excrement, the refuse thrown to dogs. That is what he called his religious empire building credentials after the cross.
Why could he say the world was crucified to him?
Because the cross did two transactions at once:
1. The world was crucified TO ME.
When you truly see Jesus poured out, bloody, naked, homeless on a cross, dying for others, the glitter of the world dies in your eyes and the treasure of Christ becomes clearer and clearer, as He is formed in you. A vessel of honor, fit for the Masters use and to then in turn to be used of God to bring many sons to glory.
John defines that world as three lusts in 1 John 2:16:
• The lust of the flesh – GREED – “I must have more”
• The lust of the eyes – LUST – “I must see more, possess more”
• The pride of life – PRIDE – “I must be more, be seen”
Once you see that, you cannot be seduced by a preacher telling you God’s goal for you is a bigger house and a private jet. The world is crucified to you – it looks dead. Its marketing no longer works.
The world also looked at Paul on his cross-life and said “he is dead to us.” The greedy, lustful, prideful world cannot use a man who will not play its game.
• A man who won’t store treasure on earth is useless to the economy of greed.
• A man who won’t lust after more is useless to the marketing machine.
• A man who won’t boast except in the cross is useless to the empire of pride that needs religious superstars to sell books.
So the world crucifies him – it pushes him out, calls him failure, poor, un-anointed, says “where is your house? Where is your big ministry?”
Exactly what they said to Jesus: “If you are the King, come down from the cross and save yourself.”
But Paul says: I boast in that. My boast is that I am unemployable by Babylon. The very fact that Laodicea thinks I am a failure is my certificate that I am qualified for the Kingdom of God as a son led by the Spirit of God.
This is the manchild firstfruits company. Revelation 12:11 – “They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.”
They love the cross more than they love the crowd.
That is the character He is forming in you in those who shall be unveiled as the sons of God, manifesting the Presence, the power and the authenticity of the glory of Christ, not Babylonian harlot church counterfeits.
Not a charismatic entrepreneur who can build a big church, but a crucified man who feasts at the table and in the Presence of the King even in the midst of the tribulation shakings and trumpet judgments, because he has no taste for Babylon’s banquets anymore.
Isaiah 25
6 And on this mountain Jehovah of Hosts will make a feast of fatness for all the people, a feast of the dregs of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of the dregs of refined wine.
7 And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering wrapped over all people, and the veil that is woven over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He will take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For Jehovah has spoken.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Jehovah; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” – 1 Corinthians 1:18
To the world and man’s church we looked foolish as we followed Christ in the way of the cross, but to God you look like Joseph – ready to be trusted with bread for nations.
His entire life since that moment was an investment portfolio in heaven.
And that’s exactly what Hebrews 11 is – the ledger of those who made that investment.
The chapter starts with the definition of that investment:
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” – Hebrews 11:1
Faith is investing in what you cannot yet count in earthly bank statements.
Look at how they invested:
1. Abel invested worship, not wealth. – Heb 11:4
He gave a more excellent sacrifice – a blood sacrifice. Cain gave from his farming success. Abel poured out a life – a lamb’s life pointing to Christ. God accepted the poured out life, not the successful harvest. The first martyr stored treasure by bleeding.
2. Noah invested obedience for 120 years with – Heb 11:7
He built an ark on dry ground when there had never been rain. Everyone thought he was a fool. He invested his reputation, his time, his money into wood and pitch. The return? He saved his household and became an heir of righteousness. The world called it waste. Heaven called it treasure.
3. Abraham invested by leaving everything. – Heb 11:8-10
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” He left his house, his land, his security. He lived in tents just like Jesus with nowhere to lay His head. Why? Verse 10: “For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” He stored his treasure in a city he couldn’t see yet. That’s why God could trust him to become father of many nations.
4. Moses invested by refusing. – Heb 11:24-26
This is the clearest. Moses had everything, a prince of Egypt, the richest palace, the best education. What did he do?
“By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.”
He REFUSED the Laodicean gospel before it had a name. He said Egyptian treasure is fleeting. Disgrace for Christ is greater value. He made the wire transfer – he poured out his palace life and stored it in heaven as reward.
5. The rest invested even their lives. – Heb 11:35-38
“Some were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated – the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.”
Destitute – the Greek is hustereo – lacking, same word as “my God will meet all your needs.” They lacked on earth because they had transferred everything to heaven.
Sheepskins and goatskins – not purple robes. Deserts and mountains – living in caves, like the Joseph prison.
And verse 39-40: “These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”
They died with their treasure still in heaven. They never got the earthly empire. That’s the point.
What’s coming upon this earth and in the Goshen type gatherings
after the Spirit of God judged the Babylonish shepherds who raised religious empires through extortion and fraud through false doctrines, who fattened themselves in the day of slaughter
Ezekiel 34
1 And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, [but] you do not feed the flock.
4 You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.
5 And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yea, My flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and none searched nor sought for them.
7 Therefore, shepherds, hear the Word of the LORD:
8 [As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search [for] My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,
9 therefore, O shepherds, hear the Word of the LORD.
10 So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. Nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, and they will not be food to devour.
11 For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Jehovah.
16 I will seek the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17 And you, My flock, says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between lamb and lamb, [between] rams and he-goats.
18 Is it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?
19 And My flock, they eat [what] your feet have trampled, and they drink [what] your feet have fouled.
20 So the Lord Jehovah says this to them: Behold I Myself will even judge between the fat lamb and the lean lamb.
21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside,
22 therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between lamb and lamb.
23 And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant David. He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd.
24 And I the LORD will be their God, and My servant David a ruler among them. I the LORD have spoken.
25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will send the evil beasts out of the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them, and the places around My hill, a blessing; and I will bring down the shower in its season. There shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. And they shall be safe in their land, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hands of those who enslaved them.
28 And no more shall they be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land eat them. But they shall dwell safely, and none shall terrify [them].
29 And I will raise up for them a [noted] planting place, and they shall never again [be of] those gathered by famine in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations any more.
30 And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, [am] with them, and they, the house of Israel, [are] My people, says the Lord Jehovah.
31 And you My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, [are] men, and I [am] your God, says the Lord Jehovah.
The Spirit of God spoke to Charles Newbold:
I called upon the name of the Lord, “Who, Lord, shall ascend to the high mountain of our God and King?”
He answered, “He who has a broken and contrite heart.
He who humbles himself in My presence. He is the one who shall ascend unto My holy hill.”
And I called again and I asked, “Lord, how does one humble himself? Man is so full of pride.”
And He said, “He who humbles himself is he who recognizes his pride and breaks before Me. I will see him. I will come to him. I will break his heart.
He will weep and mourn for he will know that he is a man of unclean lips. I will see him and I will lift him up.
But if he lifts himself up, I will let him fall again.” I asked again, “Lord, where do we go from here?”
And He answered, “Where do you want to go?
Whatever is in your heart, that is where you will go. If it is in your heart to follow after Me, then we will walk together and abide in deeper and richer things.
We will go from glory to glory, from faith to faith. Yes, we will ascend and ascend, every round going higher and higher.
This, My son, is a place in Me. I am Mount Zion. I am My holy hill. When I say come unto Me, I am calling you up to My high hill. “If, on the other hand, it is in your heart to go down to Babylon or back to Egypt, then you shall go there.
The rewards of Babylon will be there and the jewels of Egypt will be yours.
Only do not trust in them for they cannot save you, and in that hour when I come in all My glory, do not try to ransom your soul with them. They are vile to Me.
I shall cast them away from you. I shall strip you naked and leave you in your shame.
“There is glory in Babylon and there are riches in Egypt, but they will go down to the pit. For from the pit have they ascended.
They are flesh and appeal to the flesh. Do not touch them.
Do not go after them, for surely they shall be yours if you like.” “Lord,” I inquired, “this is a great deception isn’t it Babylon and Egypt?”
“There has never been a greater deception than this,” He answered.
I shuddered at the thought of this. “So great is this deception,” He explained, “that men go down to Babylon, adorn themselves in religion and piety, and truly believe that they have come unto Me.
They are shaken to anger at the suggestion that this, their Babylon, is not of Me, that I am not there.
“And Egypt, what can I say of My son, Egypt? He, too, is beautiful and rich and dwells in houses and owns land and buys and trades and sells in the marketplace. The prosperity abounds and so does the deception.
For in their riches they live and move and have their being. But where will their riches get them, and what will it buy them when I come?
– Isaiah 13
1 The burden concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, raise the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my exaltation.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like that of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the army of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Wail you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.
12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man gathers up: every man shall return to his own people, and flee everyone into his own land.
15 Everyone that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone that is caught shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
End of article published w/PK’s permission.
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