TABERNACLES.....some teaching from MALACHI.....
THE BOOK IS ABOUT THE BURDEN OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL (verse 1). IT IS DIRECTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE ISRAEL - THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL - TODAY THAT IS MOST OF NORTH WEST EUROPE, THE USA AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH.
"A SON HONORS HIS FATHER, AND A SERVANT HIS MASTER: IF THEN I BE A FATHER, WHERE IS MY HONOR? AND IF I BE A MASTER, WHERE IS MY FEAR? THIS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS UNTO YOU, O PRIESTS [MINISTERS OF RELIGION] THAT DESPISE MY NAME. AND YOU SAY, WHEREIN HAVE WE DESPISED YOUR NAME?" (verse 6).
GOD GOES ON TO SAY, PUTTING IT IN MODERN LANGUAGE, THEIR THEOLOGY IS CORRUP; THEY DO NOT RESPECT THE TABLE OF THE LORD. THEY EAT HIS WORD SO TO SPEAK, BUT BRING FORTH CORRUPT THEOLOGY. THEY JUST DO NOT TREMBLE AT GOD'S WORD; THEY DO NOT HUMBLY SEARCH IT OUT FOR ITS TRUTHS. THEY ARE THEN SHOWNING CONTEMPT FOR GOD'S WORD; THEY THEN BRING FORTH A WORSHIP TOWARDS GOD THAT IS LAME, BLIND, SICK, POLLUTED.
GOD WILL NOT ACCEPT SUCH POLLUTED THEOLOGY!
"NOW O YOU PRIESTS [MINISTERS OF RELIGION] THIS COMMANDMENT IS FOR YOU. IF YOU WILL NOT HEAR, AND IF YOU WILL NOT LAY IT TO HEART, TO GIVE GLORY UNTO MY NAME....I WILL EVEN SEND A CURSE UNTO YOU....I HAVE CURSED THEM ALREADY [YOU HAVE GONE OVER THE LINE OF NO RETURN], BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LAY IT TO HEART. BEHOLD I WILL CORRUPT [REPROVE MARGIN] YOUR SEED, AND SPREAD DUNG UPON YOUR FACES, EVEN THE DUNG OF YOUR SOLOM FEASTS [THEY ARE THE WRONG FEASTS, PAGAN FEASTS] AND IT SHALL TAKE YOU AWAY IN IT" [MARGIN] [IT IS WRONG WORSHIP TOWARDS ME, AND MY PATIENCE WILL STOP, YOUR PAGAN WORSHIP SHALL BE YOUR DESTRUCTION]" (chapter 2:1-3).
GOING BACK TO LEVI THE LORD SAYS:
"MY COVENANT WAS WITH HIM FOR LIFE AND PEACE.....THE LAW OF TRUTH WAS IN HIS MOUTH, AND INIQUITY WAS NOT FOUND IN HIS LIPS; HE WALKED WITH ME IN PEACE AND EQUITY, AND DID TURN MANY AWAY FROM INIQUITY. FOR THE MINISTER'S LIPS SHOULD KEEP KNOWLEDGE, AND THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LAW AT HIS MOUTH; FOR HE IS THE MESSENGER OF THE LORD OF HOSTS. BUT YOU ARE DEPARTED OUT OF THE WAY, YOU HAVE CAUSED MANY TO STUMBLE AT THE LAW, YOU HAVE CORRUPTED THE COVENANT OF LEVI, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. THEREFORE HAVE I ALSO MADE YOU CONTEMPTIBLE AND BASE BEFORE ALL THE PEOPLE, ACCORDING AS YOU HAVE NOT KEPT MY WAYS, BUT HAVE BEEN PARTIAL IN THE LAW" (verses 5-9).
HOW MANY MINISTERS TODAY IN ISRAEL TEACH THE LAW OF GOD - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? SOME TEACH PART OF IT; JUST ABOUT NONE TEACH ALL OF IT! HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT? SIMPLE PROOF..... HOW MANY MINISTERS TEACH YOU TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT - THE 4TH COMMANDMENT - OBSERVING THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK? HOW MANY I ASK YOU.
GO ONE SPET FURTHER, IF THEY ARE "SUNDAY" CHURCH MINISTERS, HOW MANY TEACH YOU TO OBSERVE SUNDAY AS A HOLY DAY? HOW MANY OF THEM TEACH YOU TO NOT DO YOUR SURVIVE WORK ON SUNDAY?
HOW MANY MINISTERS AND SUNDAY CHURCHES HAVE IT AS A DOGMATIC TEACHING THAT SABBATH OBSERVANCE, IS A MUST IN GOD'S SIGHT?
TODAY, JUST ABOUT NONE OF THEM SO TEACH - THEY ARE PARTIAL IN THE LAW!!
WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES ON ISRAEL, THE FLASE MINISTERS WILL BE SHOWN FOR WHAT THEY ARE, AND WILL BE LAUGHED TO SCORN BY THE PEOPLE.
A MESSAGE NOW TO JUDAH - THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE HOLY LAND.
"JUDAH HAS DEALT TREACHEROUSLY, AND AN ABOMINATION IS COMMITTED IN ISRAEL AND IN JERUSALEM; [BACK NOW TO JUDAH] FOR JUDAH HAS PROFANED THE HOLINESS OF THE LORD WHICH HE LOVED, AND HAS MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF A STRANGE GOD" (verse 11).
THE JEWS TODAY IN THE STATE OF ISREAL ARE NOT RELIGIOUS! IT'S ONLY A FEW THAT ARE BIBLE RELIGIOUS. THE MAJORITY HAVE SELECTED THE STRANGE GODS OF SECULARISM!
THE GOOD NEWS of chapter 3
"BEHOLD I WILL SEND MY MESSENGER AND HE SHALL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME, AND THE LORD WHOM YOU SEEK, SHALL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE....." (verse 1) [THE CHURCH OF GOD - 2 COR. 6:14-18 - AND THE CITY OF JERUSALEM - DAN. 9:16-18].
GOD WILL HAVE SOMEONE WHO WILL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE HIM..... BEFORE JESUS RETURNS SOMEONE WILL LAY OUT THE TRUTHS OF GOD, MAKING A PEOPLE READY TO MEET THE LORD WHEN HE COMES.
"BUT WHO MAY ABIDE THE DAY OF HIS COMING? AND WHO WILL STAND WHEN HE APPEARS? FOR HE IS LIKE A REFINER'S FIRE, AND LIKE FULLER'S SOAP" (verse 2).
IT WILL BE A DAY WHEN THE SAINTS OF GOD WILL WEEP FOR JOY. THE AGE TO COME HAS ARRIVED!
BUT FOR MOST OF HUMANITY [WHAT IS LEFT OF HUMANITY] IT WILL BE A DAY OF JUDGEMENT!
IT WILL BE THE TIME OF RIGHTEOUS DIVISION; THOSE WHO REPENT SHALL FIND MERCY AND GRACE; THOSE WHO SET THEIR MIND TO CONTINUE TO REBEL AND CURSE GOD, WILL BE DESTROYED FROM OFF THE EARTH.
TIME OF JOY FOR GOD'S CHILDREN
"THEN THEY THAT FEARED THE LORD SPOKE OFTEN TO ONE ANOTHER: AND THE LORD HEARKENED, AND HEARD IT, AND A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE HIM, FOR THEM THAT FEARED THE LORD, AND THOUGHT UPON HIS NAME.
AND THEY SHALL BE MINE, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, IN THAT DAY WHEN I MAKE UP MY JEWELS; AND I WILL SPARE THEM AS A MAN SPARES HIS OWN SON THAT SERVES HIM.
THEN SHALL YOU RETURN [ISREAL] AND DISCERN BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, BETWEEN HIM THAT SERVES GOD AND HIM THAT SERVES HIM NOT!"
(verses 16-18).
TODAY THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL [THE PEOPLE OF THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL] WHO ARE "RELIGIOUSLY MINDED" ARE UNDER THE DECEPTIONS OF FALSE MINISTERS, WHO HAVE POLLUTED THE TABLE OF THE LORD, WITH THEIR LIES, ERRORS, AND FALSE THEOLOGY. THESE FALSE MINISTERS ARE "PARTIAL" IN THE LAW OF GOD.... THEY WILL NOT TEACH THE 4TH COMMANDMENT. SOME OF THEM TEACH PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY AND LESBIANISM, AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE IS FINE WITH GOD. WE EVEN HAVE TODAY "GAY" SO-CALLED "MINISTERS" OVER CHURCHES.
IN THE AGE TO COME, WHEN CHRIST HAS RETURNED, RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL GO FORTH FROM JERUSALEM, THE LAW OF GOD FROM ZION.
AT LAST PEOPLE WILL SAY, COME LET US GO UP TO THE CITY OF GOD, LET US LEARN THE WAYS AND COMMANDMENTS OF THE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL.
IT WILL BE AN AGE WHEN THE NATIONS WILL LEARN WAR NO MORE.
IT WILL BE AN AGE WHEN THE LION SHALL DWELL WITH THE LAMB.
SO IT IS ALL WRITTEN, AND SO IT WILL ALL COME TO PASS.
PRAISE YOU THE LORD!
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