Ministered by Robert Everett Hale

Note: All scripture quotations are from The King James Version of the Holy Bible

Copyright © 2008 by Robert Everett Hale

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 CONTENTS

Opening Prayer

Preface:

A Short History

Introduction

Chapter 1 Fire up the Grill

Chapter 2 Set the table

Chapter 3 Serve it up

Chapter 4 Pass the Salt

Chapter 5 Brag on the Event

Chapter 6 Celebrate!

Chapter 7 Imagine That!

Chapter 8 The Ingredients

Chapter 9 The Announcement

Chapter 10 The Marinate & Recipe

Chapter 11 Faith In Action-The Cloud Rolls In!

Addendum- The Witnesses

Opening Prayer

"Blessed Heavenly Father, coming to you through the covenant of your Son's Blood, realizing that in us there is no good thing, apart from You! Coming to ask, seek, and knock on your Heavenly Door. In Jesus’ Holy Name, Asking that you would give us the wisdom & knowledge by your Holy Spirit on how to lose the bands of wickedness, to let the oppressed go free, to relieve the heavy burdens, to break, even destroy the yokes of evil. Asking that the principalities and powers of Heaven come, dispelling and evicting the associates of darkness from our families, communities, churches, and nations.

Thank you God, for your Truth and righteousness! For your Word is Truth, and your Holy Spirit guides us unto righteousness"

 Auther Note: Today the lands of the nations are corrupted. Governments are out of order and the trouble seems ever increasing. The Word of God declares if the Presbytery of the Houses of God are corrupt and out of order then this will transend to our world, Time and time again in the Holy Bible when God's ministry just allowed all kinds of unrighteousness to enter into the governing of the ministry then many times over oppression would come and the unrighteousness would take over the land. The promises in this book are to reverse this trend. To make the land a delightsome place both for God and man. It promises that in due time when the freedom and liberty of God's righteous Holy Word is released to the sheep of the God's pasture, His children, that such prosperity will come to the house of God and to His people that the Land will change. That principalities of wickness that rule in high places will be displaced with the principalities of righteousness. The land itself will be effected with life. The weather patterns will mellow and crops will grow to bumper levels. Livestocks will increase as well. You see my dear minister friend, Judgment starts at the House of God, and if we as stewards of God's Holy Bible do not govern upon the shoulders of Christ's Word so that He is the headship and not us, then we are allowing unrighteousness to rule the land. Let go and let God, let God be God!

Preface

Satan attacks under three major principles of darkness, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. These are the same principles that the devil tempted Jesus with, and they are the same principles that satan attacks us with. The God principles in this book can come with the fullness of God warring against the forces of darkness causing them to be gripped with fear. Just dare to put these principles in place and God’s Word promises the result, to give us the Land, and make it a delightsome land. Therefore the spiritual "Promise Land" comes with spiritual giants that many will say that we cannot overcome. The biggest of all is fear, doubt, and the security of tradition. Remember how well God was taking care of His people in the wilderness before they went into the next stage of their destiny?

Part of the reason(s) is because they were comfortable; they did not want to go into the land of "milk & honey". So God gave it to the next generation. Do we really want to miss out on God’s glory? Remember the "Promise Land" does not come without a fight! But God says if we will fight with His battle plan then the victory is ours.

In these desperate times around the world, let us cross over by faith. The time when Joshua instructed the Priests to carry the Ark of the Covenant over the Jordan it was it was the most impossible to cross. By faith the ministers of the most high God stepped out against all odds, the river parted and they crossed over to the next phase of the Kingdoms journey. This to will take faith! But this faith will step us into the river of God that flows from his throne, and every where the water touches new life will spring forth

A Short History

I am writing to share some of the wonderful revelations that God has given me supernaturally. When He started to reveal these to me, he would quicken my mind and spirit on where to turn in the scriptures. In the end I asked God why he had given these to me. He answered me that I was to share it.

In this volume, I will testify to God's wonderful grace and the miraculous life of being in Christ. It is the centerpiece of my life. I am of the conviction that these revelations, if put into practice with discipline, contain the conditions that will release the Kingdom of God in our communities. The world mocks God by promoting books and movies that speak of unlocking "codes" of the Bible that disprove the Gospel. In God’s irony, the Holy Spirit gives a no name preacher a series of doctrines proved out by the scripture of the "line upon line, precept upon precept. Here a little there a little" that will unlock the spiritual door of any church and lead to the flow of the Holy Spirit that will raise up believers in the Body of Christ like the world has never seen before!

I said all of this to stress my belief that these revelations call for an in-depth perusal. Those who have the faith to bring them to pass will reap the fruits of Love and Power. I invite you to join me as we embark on an exciting Christian journey to the heart of the Holy Bible. Please pray this prayer aloud with all your heart. Do it two or three times if you have to, but get down in your Spirit, please! Not doing so might mean these revelations would most likely not open to you! Let us remember that the Prayer of Faith is the key to many doors in God’s Kingdom.

Remember, Jesus said for us to ASK:

(Matt. 7:7)

We begin this study by referring to our foundation scripture, which is located in

Ephesians 1:9-21

"Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated

according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

That we should be to the praise of his glory,

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:"

Many will say that I am taking this verse from Ephesians out of context.

I have found no other verse that fits likes this one when it comes to following the message that is developed in this volume.

I found the original manuscripts which were written some years back, hard to read which caused me seek the Lord in prayer that I may present the truth of unlocking the store house of heaven.

I feel that I have now compiled a means for which this key can be found.

I ask the reader to receive this volume with an open heart and mind.

This work has been going on for the last seven years bit by bit and piece by piece.

The Living God would reveal the scriptures a little at a time to me, and it seemed as though the greatest revelation came when I was in my worst trial.

Our Father’s love would just cradle me in his arms and whisper to my soul concerning his great love for humankind, His most precious creation.

Introduction

The purpose of this book is to show forth the power of the body of Christ when it comes into Unity! Jesus said those that hear and do the will of the Father are His family. The principle of the work is deep divine fellowship like you would have a day at the lake grilling out just spending time together, speaking, listening, playing, and caring one for another.

I hope that you will enjoy the recipe for the greatest barbeque events that have been in times past and are to come through out reign of our King, our Lord and our Savoir Christ Jesus.

God has shown we are near and He will usher in "The Kingdom of God" and bring us unto the Lamb’s wedding supper: the Greatest Barbecue Event of All Time, for God does love a good barbecue! Get ready, here we go…

 There is an old adage that states, "A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach"

Chapter 1

Fire up the Grill

Have you ever notice just how much God’s people are recorded eating and cooking in the Holy Scriptures? That’s because God loves a good barbecue! Think about it every where you read in the Holy Scriptures they are cooking up something. Jesus liked grilling out so much, that soon after he had risen from the dead, he fired up the grill on the Galilean shoreline.

Peter recognized who & what was happening and the Word records that Peter was so excited over the event that he stripped down and swam to shore to meet the Lord. Jesus was there. Jesus called to the others in the boat "do you have any fish"? The others brought some and Jesus proceeded with the barbeque. How about the time Moses goes to Pharaoh and says "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go…"

Can you finish the sentence from memory? God goes on to declare through Moses in Exodus 5:1 "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness."

After 400 years this was what God wanted? (!) Wow there must be something to this! That’s because "God loves a good barbecue", as a matter of fact his people over the years of mankind has had the biggest and best barbecues ever know to man. For example King Solomon cooked up a feast beyond all feasts in 1 Kings 8:63-66

"And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord."

Now that’s a barbecue! God liked it so much that the Glory of His Spirit filled the temple in such fullness that it had to be evacuated and the people worshiped the Lord from the outside. At eight hours per oxen to roast and 4 hours per sheep [just guessing] that would take an estimated 656,000 hours / 24 = 2733.3 days or 74.8 years 24/7on one grill or altar. Obviously Solomon had more than one Barbecue to cook on. Considering the limited size of the temple and the mount let us say that he had erected 100 barbeque pits: half for oxen, and half for the sheep. Oxen alone would take 146 days 24/7 to cook; if we reduced the time to cook the sheep to 2 hours then it would still take 200 days 24/7 to cook! This is with the thought that the scripture records that they where to eat of the burnt offerings [Deuteronomy 12:27]. Another one is recorded in 2nd Chronicles 5:6,

In this passage, King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that was assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

The glory of the Lord fell as a cloud in this event too, so much that the ministers could not stand in its presence. (2 Chronicles 5:14)

What about the barbeque Jacob had [Genesis 35:1-15]? When he brought back a tenth of every thing that the Lord had blessed him with, after years of collecting it. Jacob had vowed to God to bring back the tenth [or tithe] to Bethel (translated God’s House [Genesis 28:22]). Interesting is that God appeared to Jacob there, and reestablished his new name of Israel near the conclusion of this great feast. A small list of items feasted upon of this huge event is listed in the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32:9-14.

There is a mystery involved with this. I am praying that God will reveal this to you as you submit yourself to the Word of God and meditate on some precepts and principles of the Word of God. God’s doctrine, not man’s! Matter of fact Deuteronomy 32:2 start off speaking on God’s doctrine. Just remember that if God shows you His Kingdom’s statute for Kingdom living then we become responsible for its enactment. We are stewards of His Word. Does not the Word say "Thy Kingdom come thy will be done". Some believe this is all future, yet the Lord said that the Kingdom of God lies with in us and is at hand. Therefore the Kingdom is available to us now if we will but come under the King’s proclamations of Truth and Spirit [or the Spirit of the Truth]; the Kingdom is within the King’s decree. Just for a thought, how about: -thy will be done- thy Kingdom come-?

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

The Word of God is conditional. Was not your salvation conditional? Did you not have to confess with your mouth [repentance] and believe in your heart [trust] that Christ indeed died to pay the price [death and hell] for your sins [Romans 10:8-13]? Then did you not have to receive that GIFT of salvation [and what good is a gift if it is not opened]? When we operate in the revealed Word of God Christ calls us His disciples… "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:31

The Word of God is conditional. Was not your salvation conditional? Did you not have to confess with your mouth [repentance] and believe in your heart [trust] that Christ indeed died to pay the price [death and hell] for your sins [Romans 10:8-13]? Then did you not have to receive that GIFT of salvation [and what good is a gift if it is not opened]? When we operate in the revealed Word of God Christ calls us His disciples… "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:31

Remember in the Gospel according to John, Christ is recorded saying in 17:17

"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."

John 4:24

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

We learn that the Word is truth, and through this truth and by God’s Spirit we find purity before God and for God’s purpose and pleasure.

Let us then pursue our King’s commands and extend His goodness to the lost and dying generation to which we are born and called to.

One day soon we can hear the Master say "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou in."

Chapter 2

Set the table

In order to set the table we have to set things in order first! God loves order!

In the chapter one, I mention a noble idea that "God loves a good barbecue". Therefore as kings and priests [Rev 1:6, and 5:10], we have some responsibilities as stewards to operate under the principles of the Word of God, God's doctrine, as lead by the Holy Spirit.

So then we must first understand how to obtain a "doctrine of God" vs. a doctrine or teaching [tradition] of man.

The rule of establishing a doctrine is recorded in Isaiah 28:9-10:"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept [principle]; line upon line [Word in verbatim], line upon line; here a little, and there a little [context]:"

How do I know that this is the way God wants us to "set the table"? If you will look to Isaiah 28:8 it says that the table is out of order and that the table is implied being put back into order by Isaiah b28:9-29 the first or which is God's doctrine. The over indulgence of alcohol is recorded as the main reason in Isaiah that the presbytery had bad judgments as well as indicated in context were the sins of greed and pride.

An extension of this principle of establishing God's doctrine is that of a witness of scripture testifying to other scriptures. In order for it to be established it must be backed up by at least one other scripture in context three being the better? This rule was also during the times of the law taken from Deuteronomy 19:15."One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." And Deuteronomy 17:6 "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."

Three being is the better witness in order to have a matter established. This thought runs true in the New Testament as well: Mat 18:16 "But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established." And in 2nd Corinthians 13:1 Paul testifies of this principle, "This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

In this spiritual application the words that matter bring life or death.

Does not the scripture record that this is the power or the tongue? Now if you really want to know for sure with out any doubts then the same witness will reoccur over and over again in the scriptures.

Like a parent reminding their children of the things that they need to know, so our Heavenly Father's establishes His Word in repetition.

This is how I have come to realize that God loves a good barbecue!

I have only given a few witnesses of the scripture, but as I go on you will see just how important the doctrine of "feasting" is a path that God's word commands us to enjoy.

It is a vital part of His worship and will, for it is in nearly every book of the scripture.

This mystery has been hidden till now for we are extremely close to Our Lord's coming and there are certain rehearsals [Holy convocations] that He wants the church to practice in fellowship before The King comes again. I will show later in this volume that this has been hid by God till now, for His glory. Since we are "setting the table" in this chapter let us understand that The King has told us in this doctrine of establishing a Kingdom doctrine how that we can bring unity among the saints. Do you understand what you just read? Unity among the saints! God's Word repeats itself in principle, in scripture upon scripture, context by context, for we are His children and we need to be told more than once for us to get the message! But it is His message! If it is a church doctrine that does not meet this validation of the Holy Spirit corner-stoned by the Holy Bible then it is conjecture that we can discuss in love but we can not, and should not, call it doctrine. No matter what man says otherwise! Remember it was Satan manipulating the scripture to Jesus in the wilderness. Not to confirm the doctrine we can miss judge the Word of God and be like the inhibited priests of Isaiah's day and the banquet table of God will be filthy with no place clean [Isaiah 28:8]. Each of us doing whatever we esteem is "right" because we "believe" it, is extremely dangerous! As recorded in Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Where the contrary is Proverbs 12:28 "In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death."

Therefore it is a life and death issue!

Here is an example of what I am talking about. According to the Holy Bible, "Sexual immoralities are mortal sins that will cost you your salvation and will send you to hell for all eternity". This is a doctrine of Moses, Isaiah, Paul, Jude, Peter, John and many of the churches in today's world. Yet there are still some churches and so-called ministers that would say, "I don't believe..." and make the Word of God of no effect for the people that they influence. Let me give you some verses in the Holy Bible that confirms the doctrine of Homosexuality alone. Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Genesis 19:5, Deuteronomy 23:17, Romans 1:26-32, 1st Corinthians 6:9, 1st Timothy 1:1-10, Jude 1:7 and more! Now it only takes two or three and three being the better witness to form a doctrine. I have given you eight, therefore the doctrine is established!

This book is based on verses that are in nearly every book of the bible! Like I said it is a mystery that God has decided to reveal in these last days.The ones to whom God shows this to be the truth and will enter into His promises will see the outpouring of the later rain, -sustained. Spoken of and so often preached in Joel 2:23. Other religious presbytery that will not bow to the King's proclamation will experience His wrath along with the world. Remember it was our sins that took Jesus to the cross, but it was instigated by religious leadership and carried out by an unrighteous government.

I do not give you my opinion of His Word; I give you His Word in doctrine.

Chapter 3

Serve it up

In the scriptures, we find Jesus, The King of kings, sitting at dinner with some Pharisees [Luke 11:37-54]. This religious sect was very concerned in following the Law of Moses [with a lot of added tradition, that Christ testified made the Word of God with out, or of no effect {Mark 7:13}}]. Jesus happens to address this somewhat in Luke 11. The Holy Spirit brings forth the discerning of their hearts as the leaders of this sect [denomination] are concerned that Christ is not following this very basic rule of "hand washing" concerning the law. Jesus did so in irony of them, not following a more important rule of the Kingdom, the judgment and the love of God [Luke 11:42b].

Jesus says that they are worried about the outside of the cup and platter while inside they are full of ravening [robbery] and wickedness. [the word "wickedness" is generally most associated with the many sexual sins of the Holy Scriptures an example being Leviticus Chapter 20]. How is Christ being so ironic?

I will attempt to show you by God’s grace and mercy what He has revealed. It is ironic that our King has come to diner by invitation. And notice how Christ sits down to meat. The host is more concerned that his guest had not washed his hands before eating while his guest is more concerned about the Host’s soul and the many souls affected by his being religious with the people rather than being in a relationship with them and with their reality.

The host is trying to figure out why God is blessing this man with these great miracles or is trying to trip Jesus up to find fault with him.

Jesus is telling his host that the ministry of Christ is from the inside-out not the outside-in. Jesus goes right to the host’s problem, money and wickedness [if you want to get rid of a weed you have to pull the root! 1 Tim. 6:10

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

Later Jesus addresses another problem in the Host’s lust for power [Luke 11:43]. When Jesus was taking of "that which is without" it was two-fold; not the outside of the cup; but another vessel, the poor. The evidence of this is in the next verse is about giving alms [charity].

Then Jesus goes for the root of the weeds in their life, the tithe which is the love and judgment for the poor, needy, to the delight of the laborer. That is if it is done God’s way; not by man’s tradition.

Every minister that I have ever heard preached on tithing always takes their text on Malachi chapter 3:6-10. Quotes like "Church! Some of you are cursed with a curse because you are living in stolen houses driving stolen cars. You can not understand why you’re not happy and everything is going wrong. Etc…" The problem lies in the fact that Malachi was not written to the church, it was written to the presbytery! So who is it that has robbed God? Robbed even the whole nation of God’s intent of tithes and offerings? A hint is in Malachi 3:5. There is a "right" for the laborer or hireling and their wages that extends to the needy. The needy is most noted by God’s Word as the fatherless, the widow, the stranger and to the ministry.

The Pharisees were the spiritual "sons of Levities" [Malachi 3:3]. Like Paul was of Gamaliel [Acts 22:3] taught in the scriptures. In Malachi the Holy Spirit calls Christ a "refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap", to take away the dross and to bring a deep-rooted cleaning. He would come and restore [Malachi 3:4] the pleasant offering as in the former years, what is the "pleasant offering"? In Malachi 3:5 the prophet writes of righteous "judgment"; and what is the "right" of this special group of needy people? Malachi 3:7 says "…return unto me and I will return unto you…"how? Malachi 3:8 says "…In tithes and offerings", why? Malachi 3:10 says "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house…" Does the Lord mean literal "meat" in His house? YES! This is the why God loves a Good Barbeque!

I have so many verses to conclude this truth I would probably bore you with the staggering amount evidence to this fact. But why does God want "meat" in His house?

It goes back to the "right" of the needy people. Let me give you a picture that the Lord has shared with me concerning our denominational [ironically funny is another word used for denomination is the word "money"] system that we have to today. Put on your imagination cap; A widow does not know God. Never has heard the gospel, suddenly by circumstances is left homeless. She is living under a bridge. One day while fishing the trashcans for her next meal, she passes by a church, whose marquee reads, "Tonight at 6pm: The Lord’s Supper". "Oh God" she thinks within herself, "I’m so hungry, I’ll even try you!" That night she is in God’s House seated, expecting, and ready.

When a gentleman presents himself to her carrying a cracker the size of a thumbnail and a thimble size cup of grape juice, and says, "This is the Lord’s Supper, examine yourself before partaking." I can imagine that the Godless hungry woman would probably curse as she concludes that "God sure is cheap" (!) as her stomach roars within. Can you imagine going to your loving caring nurturing father’s house in the natural and Him not wanting to meet your basic need for food, clothing, and fellowship. Not that He wants you to move in but a helping hand up, when you’re down and out. How much more is our heavenly Father concerned? How much more do you think as stewards of His House will we be accountable for feeding His lambs and Sheep. Some would say that they get spiritual food at the house of the Lord, and I say true, but is not God our Father interested in the whole man? So that we can love the Lord God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as we do ourselves!

Those around us learning of the river or teaching of peace that they may come into their purpose. Is not God’s House where we as human flesh learn to enjoy the manifestation of Christ interacting with Human flesh?

Then how can one who is so consumed by the grief of their belly’s hunger find rivers of living water? Every river has a mouth. John 7:37-38 "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Thus even our example of the invitation to come unto Christ to a corporate gathering was done at the conclusion of a feast. Was not the cup of the New Testament done after a feast, a barbecue of roasted Lamb? The first time bread and wine communion was celebrated in the word of God, tithes were mentioned [Genesis14:18-24] along with eating. When Jacob got the blessing from Isaac [Genesis 27:28-29] the anointing spoke of the "corn and the wine" ["Corn" is used quite often in God’s word as meaning grain].

Jacob proceeded [Genesis 28:16-22] to have an encounter with God. He poured oil on a pillar of rocks and vowed to give a "tenth" [or tithe] of all his increase; if the Lord would bring him back to this place, called Bethel, translated "God’s House". Some twenty years later the call comes back to Jacob to get back up to Bethel [Genesis 31:13]. In Genesis 35:1-15 there is a brief account of Jacob bringing twenty years of tithes and offerings back to Bethel. He had a horde of family and servants with him. Melchizedek king of Salem did not come forth in a physical manifestation this time. An altar is mentioned in 35:7, but what was on it and to whom was the twenty years of tithes and offerings given?

There happens to be a short account in the word in Deuteronomy 32:1-15 of this monumental barbecue that I am sure took some time to consume! That’s right I said consumed. The great thing is that God met with Jacob in Genesis 35:9-13.

This is a precept of God giving special favor at or near the conclusion of such feasting and also can be found in Revelation 3:20, Isaiah 58:12-14, 1 Kings 8:63-66, 9:1-2, and 2 Chronicles 1:1-12.

Under the period known as "the Law" the Holy Spirit has Moses to write that the tithe is "Holy unto the Lord" [Leviticus 27:30-34]. Therefore it is God’s choice where and how to partake of it! Basically there were two places, "within thy gates" or ones local community, village, [called a synagogue in the New Testament] and in Jerusalem at the Feasts of Tabernacles, or end of the Harvest time.

The children of Israel were commanded to bring the tithe of the seed, corn [grain], oil, and the wine to this Feast of Tabernacles.

The rest of the tithes were celebrated weekly "within thy gates" among the labors, the ministers, and the needy on a common table for all rich and poor to partake of. In the list of feasts the first and foremost feast was that of the Sabbath [Leviticus 23:1-3].

Tradition says this would start at sun down on sixth day starting the seventh day’s night and run through sundown on the seventh day. The Hebrew day starts at nightfall.

It started with a ceremony with one’s family then the next day was a community [or communion] feast to make sure that the less fortunate people were to be able to "eat and be satisfied" and to hear the Word of God read and expounded upon.

This weekly event is where the "have’s" and the "have not’s" met as one interacting with feasting, worship, celebration, preaching, praying, and giving God’s his Hallelujahs. Deuteronomy 14 and Deuteronomy 26 passages talk of the three-year tithe.

The key is in Deuteronomy 14:24 is where the Spirit of the Lord shows us that this was not a corporate additional tithe as some would preach. But rather if your situation had taken you away for a period of time then every three years you had to bring back the tithe within your "gates" and lay it before the Levite and vow a vow. These references are easily show in Deuteronomy 14:24 and 26:12-15.

Can you imagine if one were to be called away from your local assembly for around three years. Let us suppose that they made fifty thousand dollars a year. Suddenly they appear at the local house of God lay down fifteen thousand dollars and said, "Preacher lets have a God party!"

That would be one great day or even days unto the Lord!

In the passages mentioned go and read the liberty the children of Israel had in this. They could eat the clean and the unclean, and even have wine and strong drink. Truly a celebration of God’s goodness(!) to the worker, and to those who find themselves in an awkward situation, giving them a day of rest from the weariness of life.

After all Christ tells us that the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath!

Selah

To place the burden of just "paying" tithes and offerings instead of celebrating them then the ministry "robs" God and the people of the Lord’s intent of fellowship, community, and family.

It puts people out of touch with their neighbors, and church family. To watch the clock as the sermon is ministered just so they can be first in line at the local buffet is awful!

I have even heard of preachers being reprimanded by deacons and members, and some of them were even finally dismissed because they would not get the people out of church in time.

What a horrible picture!

The irony of that is the deacons were created to serve tables to make sure the needy were not left out of the count of the daily ministration of the church [Acts 6:1-8] and to give space for the leaders to fast and pray. Has the business of religion once again taken the leadership over, leaving off the King’s proclamations for the Kingdom?

Are we not called to be kings and priests showing the Judgment and Love of God?

Ministers, please, do not get too bent out of shape reading this work.

The right is to give the laborer a choice money or food to celebrate. But to the needy and meek of those who can not help themselves or need a temporary helping hand up it is their right to come to our Father’s house and to eat and to be satisfied especially on the Lord’s Day.

Chapter 4

Pass the Salt

In this Chapter will try to expound on the rights of the ministry in regard to the Tithes.

Have you ever had food that was bland? Not the most pleasant experience!

Salt is a very important topic in the Holy Scriptures. Under the Law look at this statement:

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation [sacrifice] of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Why salt? The thought of flavor or taste is expressed when Christ said:

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Not only taste but preservation as well expounded on here:

Mark 9:49-50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Paul talks of the salt of our speech towards the lost in

Colossians 4:5-6 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

This gives light to this verse as well:

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

So unless you have knowledge of the principles seasoning the sacrifice with salt, and that we are that living sacrifice you will probably miss the principles being presented in this chapter.

Really this all is foundational in this next verse:

Deuteronomy 5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

This is the first of the Ten Commandments.

So God is first, first in everything. Since we know that there are no other gods, the only other so-called are people’s imaginations that are made up to suite there own sinful nature or the need to justify themselves by works, which we know is futile, according to:

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Confirmed and established with the book of Romans

Putting God first is what tithing is all about. As you have read in the previous chapters it is a privilege, not a burden! The right of the tithe is established in God’s Holy Word for; first) celebrating God’s goodness for themselves with others, and secondly) for the supply of charity to those in need. But there is another first when it comes to the tithe.

Even in tithes there is an element that one hardly ever hears anyone expound on in the scripture called the "Heave" offering. The best example in the Holy Scriptures is in Numbers 18.

In Numbers 18:19 God calls these practices a "covenant of salt". The only other reference to this significance is in 2 Chronicles 13:5 "Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" This indicates that this principle is an eternal one, never to end even as Christ will forever be on the throne as David’s son. Can you think of a more weighted way to make a statement?

This also puts God first, let me explain:

I have been expounding on the "right" of the tithe to the people or children of God.

There is another "right" of the tithe that belongs to the presbytery or church leadership too.

You have the right to serve.

To serve God and His people and for that God has made special provision for you.

Built in this principle of serving is the "heave" offering. The heave offering is rooted in the fact that we remember what the minister likes and dislikes are concerning the Lord’s common table for feasting. [Ironically Deuteronomy 12 mentions doing away with the false gods and celebrating God with feasting with family and community via tithes and offerings & Deuteronomy 14:27 & 29 mention the ministers point blank].

The minister has the right to pick out a tithe of the tithe or the "heave" of the best of every thing that is offered and keep it for his family and himself. Under law he would also get all of the first-born livestock, and etc… [Putting God First as well]

I am not talking the Law in application but rather the principle of the Spirit of the Law, the truth in application. After all we are not under the law at this time but under grace, but currently there is more grace given under the record of the law than what is practiced under the management of the church now. Does that not seem wrong?

This also is not a second tithe as some would teach but a tithe of the tithe, the first part of that tithe. The minister too had to tithe. His tithe is also called a heave, they heave up to "Aaron’s seat" his spiritual mentor or house of covering, but also have the right of the common table, thus the reason it is called an heave instead of tithe.

Where the minister tithes is important for the mentors of the faith for their support in their elder years so that there is provision for those who have given there all for the sake of the King and His Kingdom. If the mentor has passed on, then back into the common table.

This also realizes Christ as the Head of the Church and puts Him first, in His charity for the poor. For when the minister has outlived all His mentors then the common table is still available to heave unto Christ.

Now the verses in Hebrews 7 make more sense? Because of the feasting that occurred in the beginning of the tithe and the common table of the feasting of the celebration of God’s victory and goodness is the corner stone of tithing.

Also, can you see how that this practice would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers? After all if the Spiritual Fathers bring this practice of Holy Scripture then they are showing their heart to the children and the when we as children understand the principle of the "heave", then our heart will be towards Fathers [or leadership].

Also the Spirit of Elijah is one of mentorship, and there is more taught in relationships than will ever be taught from a pulpit in one or two hours a week. That is the reason it is supposed to be a day unto the Lord where your family and family of God spend a day eating and worshiping together. Where the Word of God is declared, experiencing the goodness of our God in our lives that blesses the community of saints.

Paul writes of those that "serve at the altar are partakers of the altar". Paul also wrote in 1 Corinthians 5:8 "let us keep the feast". And in 1 Corinthians 11 Paul writes more on the order of the service, for us not to bring corruption to the common table by hoarding up one’s food to oneself nor interrupting the flow of the Spirit by eating or drinking out of order not discerning the body of believers, as well as what Jesus did for us on the cross through the communion wine and bread in remembrance thereof.

Paul did not take the heave offering of these Corinthian Saints because the Holy Spirit would not let him, yet remember he did feast with them. Therefore we must go with the flow of the leading of the Spirit.

Is it God’s since of irony that the order for the Kingdom of Heaven’s principles and powers in the earth that the practice of the heave would be in earth?

Is it God’s sense of humor that the word Heaven is Heave + "n"?

Every one of us as faithful followers of Christ feel that we want to see the Kingdom of God reach out and touch the lives of our friends and families. This is an example of the Love of God in our hearts but there are those who see this as weakness and capitalize on it for their own wicked gain. So be very careful

Please sit down and read aloud Isaiah 61. The promises are awesome!

Yet there is a key note here conditional for these great promises to come to past:

Isa 61:8

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will

direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

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We are the ones not using good judgment in our finances but we just got to blame it on the devil. The devil of debt, or poverty, has the

people enslaved.

My question is who then has robbed even the whole nation of

God’s intent of tithes and offerings?

A Hint is in Malachi 3:5. And Isaiah 61:8

Malachi 3:5.And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 34:1-31 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

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 shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD."

Also

Jeremiah 23:1-5 "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth."

Compare

Act 20:27-36 "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

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.

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all."

And

Does not the Word of the Lord say that my sheep hear my voice? In the

verses above we find that God hates robbery for burnt offerings. If we are

compelled in a special service to give into a ministry and compelled to do it

with God’s portion then my question would be who is speaking to us? Here we are in a special service and up to our neck in bills, we do not have money to put

gas in our car and we pledge to give an offering that amounts to

over a weeks work thus placing our selves and our family in bondage and we have the mindset that God is going to bless and deliver us but in the back of our

mind we are thinking, "what have I done"?.

First let me say that God does emphasize in his word that whatever we

give to his work shall return unto us but does it say that it is promised to us

when we need it? This is where the ministers are failing in that they are making

promises to the people without telling the whole story.

Yes, the fruit of the seed will come back to us if we give with a pure heart and motive to advance his Kingdom but it does not say it will come back to us personally. God may decide to have the blessing come back to our children or our children’s children.

The word of God declares that almighty God hates robbery for burnt

offerings therefore if you are compelled to give into a ministry and you are then

compelled to do it with God’s portion the tithe, if you are not current with your creditors for the tithe is Holy and it is the

Lord’s!.

But measure yourself my dear child, the Word of God declares that we are

to take this to our Local assembly to Celebrate God’s goodness to us so that the

ministry and the meek of our community will have food to eat, clothes to wear,

and places to live. And remember the heave of the tithe belongs directly to the

minister who is to oversee this ministry to the poor and to keep up our Father’s

house. Therefore only a small portion of ones tithe should be given into other

ministries. I mean if God really told you to give to this other ministry and you

are behind on your bills then it would have to come out of the tithe because God

says he hates "robbery for burnt offering"!

It is like this: The tithe is the Lord’s! He does not want you to rob Him by paying

your bills with it! [Although in the old covenant the Lord says if you were to borrow it then you were to pay it back with twenty percent interest (not to many ministers would tell you that either!). God knows and He understands]

Just do not Rob God from His goodness to you from helping the "meek" of our communities! God also does

not want you to rob other people or businesses you have an agreement with to

give God an offering. God is just! And with justice comes righteous judgment!

God loves judgment! And with right judgment comes great wealth, the Word

declares it in Isaiah 61’s passage and in others to such as Malachi 3.

"Who Is Robbing God"

Do you not see in today’s body of Christ that we have been devastated as

a whole? Sure there is great wealth in the body usually by those who have the

use of judgment. Let us face it there are many voices, and the only one that can

bring judgment to these voices is you in the balance of Spirit and Truth.

The enemy of our soul comes as a thief

as stated below.

John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am

come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

What do you think he (Satan) wants to steal most if your soul is in the

hands of Christ? That’s right your wealth or God’s goodness in your life, and he

will use our numbness to sound judgment to devastate us; thus rendering us

with less power in our lives causing us to live in the cellars of depression and captivated

in poverty!

We need to pray and ask forgiveness in the areas we have been weak in

and ask our heavenly Father to undergird us with his mercy and ask that he

clearly mark our path with sound judgment when it comes to his Holy Word!

We need to realize that our God does not work on a merit (favor) system as

we are so used to in this earthly realm but know that we are already accepted in

his eyes because we are his children.

We need to know that The wrath of God was satisfied when his son Jesus

Christ willingly gave his life and shed his life’s blood on an old rugged cross

over two thousand years ago to pay the sin debt of mankind that we may become

the sons and daughters of the most high God. And it is through that finished work of Christ that we are justified and accepted of God if we truly believe with all our heart.

Yes friend, God bought us through the finished work of Christ but remember, We can

not buy God! Remember this prayer!

"May God give us the Grace of good judgment to keep on making good

judgments for it is a Kingdom principle?" Does not the Word say that

we are Kings and Priests of our God? What good is a King without sound judgment?

We find in our studies of scripture that there is a "right" for the

laborer or hireling and their wages that extends to the needy [the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger] and to the ministry. In today’s church we have missed the Lord’s intent concerning the culture around us. We are supposed to be the Lord’s body here on

earth and willingly yield our bodies a living sacrifice which is our reasonable

service. He wants to use our hands and our feet to reach out to the needy. We

are to reach out to the hurting and the culture around us with the good news

that we serve a risen savior. And because of that we put Christ first, first in everything

 Chapter 5

Brag on the Event

{Fruits on Display}

Maybe it is to be like a wedding, a feast and a ceremony with families coming together in one place, minister(s) present, music, and with the awesome presence of God’s Spirit showing His approval of the Holy Love being joined.

When the toast is given; and people speak of this union and the great recent and distance memories of events that has brought the groom and bride to this destiny. What glory, what grace, and what mercy it will take to continue what has been joined together let not man put asunder!

Like the traditional vows given, to love, and to cherish, in sickness and in health, richer or poorer … till death do we part!

Only "death" is the wrong clause for the great Barbeque event of Christ and His church for in the passing of the bride of the father’s choice there is no death, only life eternal where sickness is gone and the riches laid up in heaven’s coffers will never deplete.

Hallelujah!

As a matter of fact "hallelujah" means just what I have been writing of in this chapter. The world mostly knows that it is the same in every major language…"the highest in praise".

If one takes this word and searches the concordance then one could come up with a definition that looks like this:

One would find "A bright, shining, radical celebration! With bragging and boasting, ranting and raving, that makes you look as if you’ve had too much to drink such as at a wedding event that brings God in victory!" As we come together in Unity with one heart, one mind, one spirit, for one purpose in the very strength of unity then we will flow together each supplying our part for this event. {Our Holy convocation [practice] for the eternal existence}

Rev. 19:7

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."

To make this bride ready it was and is a team effort.

The bride and friends of the bridal party would come together bringing the waters and oils of purification for her to bath in. Jars upon jars they would carry to her chamber for they knew soon the groom would be arriving setting things in order. There is a story how the Levities also would gather waters for the sacrifice before the altar.

They would come up from the pools of water and dance a dance, of rejoicing before the Lord.

They then would carry the water into the temple to wash the sacrifices. There was so much water used in this manner that it would flow out the temples doors, onto the steps into the streets of the city below. The water mingled with the blood.

The people would bring the sacrifice; the grains, oil, and wine to God’s house celebrating their salvation and God’s goodness to themselves and attempt to share this glory with others whom know little or nothing of their great God.

Maybe these events of unity will UN-dam the waters of Ezekiel 47:1 that turns into the river of healing and salvation. The Bride makes herself ready coming together: to-get-her in unity.

What better two things than the house of God and the feast of celebration? For "God Loves A Good Barbeque"

Remember the parables of Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:1-3

Mat 22:2-14

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For many are called, but few are chosen."

The following story might help that I got today from an email:

--"Breakfast at McDonald's" [amended] This is a good story and is true, please read it all the way through until the end! (After the story, there are some very interesting facts!): I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, and 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with. Her last project of the term was called, 'Smile.'

The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions. I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say "hello" anyway. So, I thought this would be a piece of cake, literally. Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald’s one crisp March morning. It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son. We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away, including my husband did. I did not move an inch.... An overwhelming feeling of panic welled up inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved. As I turned around I smelled a horrible 'dirty body' smell, and there, standing behind me was two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was ’smiling’

His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched for acceptance. He said, ’Good day' as he counted the few coins he had been clutching. The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed gentleman was his salvation I held my tears as I stood there with them. The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted. He said, 'Coffee is all Miss' because that was all they could afford. (If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something. He just wanted to be warm). Then I really felt it - the compulsion was so great I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me judging my every action.

I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray. I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot.

I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand. He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, 'Thank you.'

I leaned over, began to pat his hand and said, 'I did not do this for you. God is here working through me to give you hope.' I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, 'That is why God gave you to me, Honey, to give me hope.' [Can you here Christ Speaking?] We held hands for a moment and at that time, we knew that only because of the Grace that we had been given were we able to give.

That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love. I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand. I turned in 'my project' and the instructor read it. Then she looked up at me and said, ’Can I share this?' I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and being part of God, need to share this need to heal people and to be healed ourselves. In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald's, my son, the instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE. Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who may read this and learn how to LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS - NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.

The Holy Spirit is sent to watch over you. In order for the Spirit to work, we pass the love of Christ on to others they might receive the free gift of God’s love and are watched over as well. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Through this great love let us walk in and with the hearts of others and not on them!

Chapter 6

Celebrate!

Glory be, Where is the Unicorn?

One might think that I put a chapter in from another book. What do Unicorn’s have to do with God’s barbeque? Unicorn(s) (from Latin unus 'one' and cornu 'horn') are mentioned nine times the Holy Scriptures. The Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance translates the word as a wild bull [from its conspicuousness (attracting attention through being unusual or remarkable, easily or clearly visible)]

Clearly visible! So where is the Unicorn?

When God had me to discover this truth He had me to study on the word "Glory". I started in Genesis the first time "glory" is mentioned is Genesis 31:1

"And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory."

Glory is translated as "weight; but only figurative in a good sense, splendor or copiousness: - glorious honor"

What does this wild creature that is clearly visible attracting attention, the Unicorn(s); have to do with the glory God bestows upon man? Well Jacob had come from rags to riches for the sake of the Kingdom of God and His purpose on earth. It took an encounter with God, acquired integrity, and perseverance over time but God brought Him to His destiny. And out of this glory that God supplied into Jacob and his family came one of the greatest barbeque events of all time. A short list of the ingredients is in Deuteronomy 32:9-14.

Moses writes in Deuteronomy. 32:2

"My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:", a precept of the rain and the later rain (?), judge for yourselves.

Did you think that maybe this great event is where Psalms 23 […Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.]

God is showing us that even as the enemy forces trembled with fear as Jacob and his family ascended to Bethel (God’s House) to feast and celebrate God’s goodness in his day, so they also did in David’s day and so it will in our day!

Is this not what Isaiah 58:8-14 is declaring when God says that He will cause us to ride the high places and feed us with the heritage of Jacob? That he will be our "re-reward" a term declaring to us that He has our back- our protection from rear attacks.

Does not this declare the Kingdom of God: where His proclamations are adhered to and the King backs them up with His army of heavenly hosts? Can you see the importance now of God’s Great Barbeque Events? That the release of the rights of the poor and the rights of the ministry, turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers. This brings the glory of God! Because of His goodness, the congregation starts to voice and praising God’s event giving Hallelujahs! Releasing the rivers of water that are welled up in their bellies, for every river has a mouth.

The atmosphere changes, for God’s presence appears, inhabiting the praise of His people. As the rivers begin to overflow and to flood the plains, and His throne is upon the Flood [Psalms 29]. Clouds of Glory form! And the rain is carried to where it is needed! Hallelujah!

The Church is the Unicorn(s), that wild bull of sacrifice. The sacrifice of praise: but also of fellowship in unity, in the unity of the corn [feast] Unit-cornJ. I like especially the Latin translation mention in the beginning of this chapter meaning one horn when one looks at Psalm 92:10

"But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."

Psalms 133:1-3

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore."

And Psalms 22:1-10

" The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah."

Chapter 7

Imagine That!

When we were young and had not much in regard to material things, our imagination was one of the greatest gifts we possessed and still are!

From doctors to lawyers, from lawmen to bad men and the lists goes on.

Such imagination carries itself into careers of being role play actors and writers where together they can take us back to our childhood days and other worlds.

The problem with imagination is that the word of God denotes that mankind’s imagination is "continually evil"!

Genesis 6:5-6

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."

Notice it comes from out of the heart or center of ones spirit.

Yet this is one of the greatest traits of us being created in God’s image. See the irony? Made in His image from His imagination, Elohiym-God the Creator, the creator that is still canvassing His work in you and me and in the generations of the lives of humans. Yet Christ’s proclaims our concern for thought is but for today and the evil thereof [Matt 6:34].

There is an event in the Holy Bible that brings some light to the greatness of Unity in the congregation, which will bring God into the very company of mankind.

The story comes from Genesis 11:1-6

"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do".

Two great things are reveled here: 1] that Unity brings God on the scene, and 2] nothing is held back from what we imagined to do. God breaks up this power of Unity, in Genesis, by scattering the children of men because their imagination was not God’s but their own.

Now how much more will God’s blessing come upon us as we come into the Unity of Imagination with God’s vision? Will anything be held back? I quote again "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do", does "nothing" mean "nothing"! Yes! For The Lord has declared it.

When Ezekiel was caught up into the heavens. The wheel within the wheel empowered by the four creatures started carrying his spirit up into the heavens before the throne room of God.

Does the praise of worship of God enter us into the presence of His Holy Spirit that is within us? God’s word states that He inhabits the praises of Israel [His Spiritual Children] By the name of Christ that causes our spirit-self to ascend with the help of angelic forces that surround us that gather to worshiper’s aid.

Now if each that brings to the body what God has deposited in their spirit. Either by vision or word, "flowing together" with one purpose or total working vision, stimulating one common language or speech. Coming from God’s Holy Spirit confirmed by His Holy Word, how much more will God show up bringing blessings as His Kingdom’s will being done on the earth.

John 5:19

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

John 8:28

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

Christ stated Mark 9:23 "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."

Interesting to me that a common phrase to pretending as a child is to "make believe" using our imagination. The word "believe" in the New Testament is translated …to give "credit" or to "entrust". To entrust Christ with our life in unity of the body of the assembly is to empower His Holy Spirit to work freely among us and beyond the four walls of a building.

It is the very essence of revival! As we come into the precepts and principles of His confirmed Holy Word like the people did at Babel. Not under the guide of vanity but under the cloud of witnesses raining His Spirit’s will -in Unity, creating a flood of glory and peace!

This is an aspect of what the Holy Spirit recorded threw the apostle Paul as he penned "each supplying their part".

In Chapter 4

He pleads for unity of the Spirit

1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Ephesians 4:1-4 (KJV)

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:13-16 (KJV)

Psalm 133

Benefits from the harmony of believers

A Song of degrees of David.

1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Psalm 133:1-3 (KJV)

I understand that Christ is taking of conversion in this verse… Mat 18:3 "And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." But maybe our spiritual power of "make believing" or "catching the vision" in unity of Christ’s Holy Spirit is the door of the Kingdom.

I know Jesus is the door! I wrote Christ’s Holy Spirit. Again a vision not generated out of self but rather one than comes to the body as they worship and praise together before God and His Holy Spirit imparting to the body the vision [or visions in agreement] and the word [or words in agreement]…each supplying their part.

Faith comes by hearing, hearing that of the Word of God. Revelation from God for God’s purpose, intent, and will.

Jesus told Peter:

"15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Matthew 16:15-19 (KJV)

Revealed Faith has the Power of God upon it when it results in action. Imagine a congregation getting so caught up in the Holy Spirit declaring the Faith God has revealed to them, each supplying their part.

Last July on the telephone conference ministry there were several of us flowing together when suddenly a voice that sounded as if it were under running water delivered this word...

"My heart is steadfast, Oh God! My heart is steadfast. I will see and make know of it. I will take thee Oh Lord among new vision. I will see you among, for great is your Love, Vision to the heavens. His faithfulness reaches this passage. Be awesome Oh God! For it is the Lord who heals us: all the earth."

I have no doubt that this was the Angel of the Lord. The Conference was recorded.

With in a week many that were on the conference broke the Unity and went different ways, yet people were getting touched and healed. Of those that have remained still God moves, touches and heals blesses and encourages. Maybe one day the ones that broke the Unity and decided that they could not work out the differences will realize that the Unity of the Spirit and His Love is worth more than things that divide.

If God broke up the Unity of wicked imaginations, I can certainly believe that Satan would come against the Saint's Unity.

Things that divide move apart, things that multiply build up. Add to Vs take away, simple...right?

Go and read John 15:1-17 for a contextual reference to these teachings, and be blessed by the most High God! To God be the Glory, Amen!

Chapter 8

The Ingredients

The following is a list of key words that even a child can link together to solidify the doctrines that surround "God Loves A Good Barbeque". As you match the words, the precepts surrounding the words in context one to another then by God’s grace you too will have a greater understanding of these teachings of God’s Holy Word.

Look for the key words that unlock the Door.

Key Words of the Tithe Doctrines

Judgment, Love, Oil, Corn, Wheat, Wine, Meek, Fatherless, Widow, Delight Delightsome

Feed, Tithe, Tenth, Heave

Watered Garden [watereth, watered]

Rain, burnt offering, meat

Robbery [ravening, ravenous]

Wickedness [adultery, fornication, sorcery]

Eat, Satisfied, Feast, Charity [alms]

Bread

Just [weight, balance, scale]

Goodness

Perverseness [perverteth]

Flow, together

Fat, fatness

Doctrine

Chapter 9

The Announcement

Ever had a Rabbit’s Foot? God’s people like to put God on a shelf to only bring him down in times of selfish ambitions. Such was a time in the days of Samuel the prophet. When the Philistines were attacking God’s people:

1Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

They were living a religious life, but not a life of a relationship with Holy God and His created people. In the story of Samuel, they lost miserably! The same sin is going on today. People being real religious but not having the Father’s heart of relationship with Himself and the people whom He lovingly wants the best for: namely redemption into His loving arms. And battles are still being lost!

The first part of this passage has to do with people being religious also, but not real with a merciful, gracious full of love God that only comes with a relationship in the Father’s love.

Isaiah 58:2 "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God."

These things seem good and are good if done in the right spirit. Yet Isaiah 58:1 says there is sin in the camp.

Isaiah 58:1 "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."

Whenever I see "Jacob" quoted after his natural death in the word of God I have come to understand that this is often referring to the "flesh man" and "Israel" as the "spirit man". With this understanding I see people getting into the flesh and seeking God (verse 2-4):

Isaiah 58:2-4 "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high."

The last verse tells us that they even fast for these fleshly desires of vengeance and argument, and continues their reprimand in verse 5:

Isaiah 58:5 "Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?"

These outward religious self-righteous ones do not seek the agenda that Christ has but rather there own agenda of self-promotion and achievements building their own kingdom and not God’s. As well as in the last parts of verse three a lack of Holy sanctification and consecration. This also could be applied today even as it was in the days of our Lord Jesus. The Lord told some Pharisees that they would travel the world to get one proselyte and make him twice the child of hell that he was!

How can faith in God be wrong? Is it when our slant of doctrine divides instead of bringing ministers to the house of God to fast and prayer and seeks God's divine help in their flock’s lives and in their communities’ lives. Yet not only ministers but a "solemn assembly" to wail and mourn before God through the night prior to "Holy Day". Then serve the God by serving the people addressing their spiritual needs as well as their physical needs.

The different churches seem more bent on building their own kingdom rather than God's! Preaching all sorts of different doctrines that they themselves do not believe but rather because it is apart of their tradition and denominational ways, for fear of losing their congregation or 401k’s. They speak judgments on other Christian faiths from the pulpit, putting their tradition over another and vise versa.

Does not the Word say that we are lively stones each supplying our part making up the house of God? Should not we then encourage our people to seek God's face to see if this is the place God wants you to come and to worship? To overcome every thought that would discourage them from coming, until the Holy Spirit moves them. Faithfulness to God is being faithful to His house or the body to which we are called. We cripple Christ's body by not supplying our part of worship, and support. Cripple? Would you not consider yourself crippled if your hands did not do any of the work it was divinely designed to do? Not wakening to the life to which they are called to, but just laying (out) there.

 Chapter 10

The Marinate & Recipe

The Birthright for Charities’ Light

1Corinthians13: 1-13

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

In Isaiah 58 one can see that bringing in the promises that are to follow have certain conditions to set them in order. Religious activity will not do. God is not impressed! Even with fasting as a means of seeking a Godly resolve to our religious prosperity among the people who surround us. Did not the Lord Jesus say that I would have mercy and not sacrifice?

Matthew 9:13 "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

And

Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."

Interesting to me that the following comes right after

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

To continue with this thought of proper fasting consider most of the beatitudes of Mat 5:3-9…

Matthew 5:3-9 "Blessed are the poor (beggar) in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn (grieve or wail): for they shall be comforted. [Isaiah 57:18, 61:3]

Blessed are the meek (humbled): for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst (fasting) after righteousness: for they shall be filled (of the Spirit).

Blessed are the merciful (compassionate): for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure (See 1st John 1:9; a parallel that cannot be ignored) in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers (intercessors): for they shall be called the children of God."

…Is centered on the Spiritual warfare of a "proper" fast. As described in Isaiah 58:

Isaiah 58:6-7 "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

And the natural warfare of helping the needy, bringing some peace to their lives:

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?"

A combination of spiritual and natural warfare! Don't be tricked in believing all goes well at first in the battle. Many demons will come against you in the form of humans and circumstances. Doing the natural with out the spiritual is good. We all know as Christians that this charity of feeding, clothing, and etc. is good, but to do it with out the combating the forces of evil that got our fellow earthly citizens in such predicament is like putting a band aid on a broken limb. Or rather: putting a cast on a broken limb, with out setting it in its proper order first. God is interested in the whole man! Spirit and natural! But the word says from the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul:

Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

It is when we minister to the natural in the power of the Spirit that God the father is Glorified and that whole community and nations are changed and the miracles of God are manifested.

No other way that I know of to bring a human into these aspects of verses Matthew 5:3-8 is but by fasting, confessing, pleading the blood looking for God to give us the victory in the battle of the Day of the Lord and through out the week. With this proper fasting of verses 3-8 the result for many will be verse 9. That people will be able to find peace for their souls, minds, bodies, and finances through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, as those who have this perfected charity, minister the good news and win souls while meeting the natural needs of the afflicted as well. If those called for intercession and leadership would but fast and pray, eventually this consecration of dedication would spread through out the church body. The people would be delivered from personal stumbling blocks that keep them from growing and going forth in the kingdom of God.

Remember the story in Judges where the people of Israel got up in arms over the Benjamites that had defiled a Rabbi's concubine and ravished her so much that she died? How they in their righteous indignation inquired of the High Priest whether or not they should go to battle against them? The word came to go to battle. They lost! Mourning their loss, the word the next day when they inquired again whether to go battle or not was "go". They lost again! The next day not only did they mourn; they fasted, repented, and pleaded the blood! Then inquired of the Lord whether to go to battle or not. The word came back "go for today have I delivered the city into your hand" (Judges 19 & 20)

Do we, as ministers, want our cities delivered into our hands? Are we tired of losing the battles! Battles of sickness, poverty, lack of wisdom, salvation, deliverance, governments, etc.?

The battle will ensue! Look to Matthew 5:10-12:

"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

Victory will come if we persevere.

Matthew 6:25-34 "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

Interesting that Christ addresses these items in verse 25 repeated 31? Do not fret, but rather prayerfully intercede, with action, for others. Does not the principle of getting come first with giving, that we reap what we sow?

All the different aspects from Matthew 5:13 leading up to this Matthew 6:33 are foundational and constitute the fundamentals of the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. The Spirit man along with the natural man is becoming the whole man before a Holy God.

Think on these:

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

Matthew 6:33 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

Remember how Esau was hated of God because he gave up his birthright for a bowl of beans to Jacob (the trickster) Genesis 25:29-34

Genesis 25:29-34 "And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."

Romans 9:13 "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

Jesus one time cast out a demon that his disciples had no success with. They asked him why? He said these do not come out except by fasting and prayer. (Matthew 17:14-21)

[Author’s note: If the version of scripture you are reading leaves this principle of power out; look for a different version!]

This seems to indicate to us that our faith and power in God will increase through fasting and prayer, earnestly seeking God’s will and revelation to speak or act into situations that the Father wants to manifest Himself in.

If one looks at Isaiah 57:14-15,

"And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite* and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Another meaning for contrite is "dust" and "destruction". Sackcloth and ashes while sitting on the ground is an Old Testament way to fast, pray, and mourn before God."

Isaiah 57:16-19 " For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him"

We find that this spiritual warfare is a Heavenly principle in seeing afflicted ones to be delivered from their personal "stumbling blocks".

Fasting seems indicated here. He also told his disciples upon his ascension into heaven that they were to still away in an upper room in unity and fast and pray until that they were imbued with power from Heavens. (Indicated they were fasting because Christ was asked why his disciples did not fast, but John’s did)

Matthew 9:15 "And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast." Would that be here?

Acts 1:4-16 "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and *supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus."

They had received the Holy Spirit (John 20:17-23) when Christ first arose but yet had not descended fully from the Father.

Are we as Christians selling our birthright?

Our spiritual birthright of power and victory over the enemy because we refuse to come together (and/or even still away alone) and fast, pray, repent, plead the blood until we are endued with power from on high and given the victory? Is this why the church as whole seems so weak in the eyes of the world and openly practices unrighteousness even within its leadership? Our message of forgiveness of sins and salvation from God's wrath is great news but we lack ‘punch’ without the power of God on and in our lives. I write this with strong conviction. There is a recipe here that is able to change our world and turn it upside down! But its completeness is when this chapter of Isaiah 58 and its principles are put in place and its results extend through out the word of God.

Do we covet this birthright even as Jacob did or do we sell ourselves short, like Esau, and ask "what good" is the birthright to our fleshly existence?

These are perilous times. So great is the sin! It literally is a fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy of the last days. Much like the book of Ester (4:11-16 & 5:1-4) where the people of God came together fasted and prayed and one entered in the presence of the King that had favor to bring him to a feast to declare the plot set against the people of God. Ester did not make it known to her Husband-king that she was fasting but rather hid it and put on her best to make her entrance into the court. Yet the love of her husband/king knew within him that something was not right. It troubled his sleep that night and God had the ball rolling to bless the person of Mordecai and the people of God {remember Mordecai was also in sack cloth and ashes (an outward display of Old Testament fasting)}.

Much like Ester’s time, Daniel did a fast identifying himself with the sins of his people yet God declared him greatly beloved? Daniel 9:20-23:

"And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision."

We find in chapter Daniel 10 he was doing a limited fast and also gained favor of God. These are examples of great fasts. There are more examples in scripture however; the ones mentioned make the point of a correct fast. Isaiah 58 is the fast God desires. The spiritual warfare of the fast is essential to it. The plea! Isaiah 58:6

"Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"

Doing the natural work of the fast is also just as important. One of my mentors once told me "If you really want God to bless your fast buy someone else their meal and keep your fast secret to them, and God will really start to manifest himself in your ministry."

But let’s continue first with the next thoughts of Isaiah 58:7-11

"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own

flesh?

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." [There goes that water againJ]

The first time I saw these promises I started seeking them out. Who would not want them as a member of the family of God?

Finally in this thought of the unity of fasting, repenting, and pleading the innocent blood of the Lamb for the sins of our own generation for the move of God:

Joel 2:12-32 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Chapter 11

Faith In Action

The Cloud Rolls In!

In Feb 2008 God led me to hop the plane from Ft. Worth, TX to Charleston, SC. I had not been in a plane in years. It was a direct flight. Many had been praying for this revival. The Pastor of the little church felt as if such oppression was over the area. I knew the Lord had sent me there to pray for the sick, evangelize, and to reveal the secrets in God’s Barbeque that He had been sharing with me over the last seven years. The Pastor and his wife had been ordained in a large denomination. Other ministers came to also minister in this revival, a revival team formed from the ministry of which I was a part of at the time. Trucker Drivers called to preach, five including the Pastor [a former driver].

Numbers wise it was small, very small. Spirit wise it was out of this world!

One elderly gentleman had lost his sight in his left eye for some ten years and regained it. Another had great nerve damage and the pain that ensues and found relief! Even more received salvation in accepting the adoption provided by God the Father through His Son, Christ Jesus.

The Pastor and his wife both received the gift of tongues, but one of the strangest events was that a cloud of mist came rolling into the sanctuary Sunday evening and staying for the eight days that the revival lasted!

The Lord had us to ordain one of the Drivers. God told me to go into the Pastor's office along with the Pastor, and two others. We shut the door.

As we began the cloud came rolling under and over the door into the Pastor's office to witness the ordination!

The Pastor had just so happened to plant some store bought dried green beans just to see if they would sprout. Not only did they sprout they excelled! In the end they were two and half to three feet tall on the eighth day!

Also the deliverance ministry was in place as one had several demons expelled. People set free finding a new song that had never been sung. Truly God Loves A Good Barbeque!

We look forward to future revival events were the presence of God is even more evident only by multiplication. Is this not the Kingdom of God?

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Addendum

The Witnesses

References and Thoughts

Along with further and greater expounding, I realize that in this addendum that I am repeating from time to time some things I have already stated. Does not our heavenly Father repeat himself so we get it? My heart is not to badger you but rather to give you such overwhelming evidence so that you get this deep within your Spirit. And these are just the some of the witnesses

The word principle seems very interesting to me since we know from the word of God that our wrestling match to overcome in this fleshly existence is one of principalities and powers. Therefore if we find heavenly principles and exercise those, then these Principalities and powers come as the rule that we are abiding under. Therefore, we have the authority, backed by the King and His Host in His Kingdom, as long as we stay or abide in the jurisdiction of the Kingdom.

I have taken the liberty to list the meaning of what I am referring to below.

"Doctrine"…1 archaic: teaching, instruction 2a: something that is taught b: a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief: dogma c: a principle of law established through past decisions d: a statement of fundamental government policy esp. in international relations. *

"Principle"

n initiator--more at prince 1 a: a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption b (1): a rule or code of conduct (2): habitual devotion to right principles

"Principality"

n, pl -ties 1 a: the state, office, or authority of a prince 2: the territory or jurisdiction of a prince: the country that gives title to a prince 3 pl: an order of angels--see celestial hierarchy

Ephesians 3:10 "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God"

Also

Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

We have been taught in order for a doctrine to be established that it must have 2-3 contextual references in the scripture. Let me expound upon this to try to solidify it in your spirit and conscience. This comes from the principle:

Deuteronomy 19:15 "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."

&

Deuteronomy 17:6 "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."

Christ speaks

Matthew 18:16 "But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established."

Paul confirms

2nd Corinthians 13:1 "This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

In order for one to come into understanding of true "Doctrine" the word declares you have been weaned from the breast milk.

Isaiah 28:9-10 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"

"Precept""

n. to take before hand, instruct, to take--more at *heave [wow look a the word a dictionary gives us here! Imagine that! J] 1: a command or principle intended esp. as a general rule of action 2: an order issued by legally constituted authority to a subordinate official.

"Context":

n weaving together of words, 1: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning 2: the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs: environment, setting

In order to avoid the valleys of this spiritual walk, we need to further our study of consecration and sanctification.

Isaiah 58:12-13 "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"

Sounds like "…restorer of paths to dwell in" just might be some principles!

I am not advocating legalism but rather Spiritual "principle" that light is shed upon in the Spirit of this promise of Isaiah 58:14. A great blessing that comes with exercising this principle. Remember exercising principle when confirmed by the witnesses of the word brings the power of that Principality assigned to into the territory of the land. Is not that the promise that God gives us in Malachi 3 when we come into exercising the truth of the principle of tithing? Malachi 3:11-12 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts".

Isaiah 58:14 "Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

Therefore leadership and intercessors of a congregation would see great miracles from God if they would enter into these promises by sanctifying a fast unto the Lord. If leadership would only pray, fast and plead the blood of the Lamb of God before "Holy Day" like Jesus did on top of the mountain, then we could see the God of the Bible manifest himself in the body of believers like he did in the body of the Messiah.

Psalms 42:1-4 "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday."

In the Spiritual realm of God’s blessings we understand that it takes faith to please God. In the legalism of the law there were many different Sabbaths unto God. Not all of them were on the last day of the week. Thus we can conclude that the Spiritual principle for blessing is a day or Holyday unto the Lord. Where as legalism would demand Saturday, (*which under the Jewish law skips a day after Pentecost) the Holy Spirit indicates, "Give me a day and see what I am going to do! He is stating his purpose for you, your family, your congregation, your city, and your nation!" When God starts to manifest Himself in such a large way, many people will be saved, healed, and delivered from the demons that are out to steal, kill, and destroy their lives.

After all Sabbath translates out as rest or intermission:

*"The seventh-day Sabbaths of Israel were changing Sabbaths, being observed on two different days each year because of an additional Sabbath at Pentecost. If the fifteenth day of Abib (when Israel left Egypt), which was on the Sabbath, were Saturday, then the seventh-day Sabbath would fall on Saturday for seven weeks or forty-nine days. The fiftieth day, Sunday, would be Pentecost. The next seventh day Sabbath after Pentecost would then fall on Sunday, and so on until Pentecost of the following year, which would change the seventh-day Sabbath again. Thus, there was no such thing as the Sabbath always being on Saturday throughout the year, or perpetually.

Sabbaths were to be a delight instead of a burden and would have been had they been observed lawfully, and the true nature of rest and worship maintained (Isaiah 58:13)."

*Excerpted from Dake’s Study Notes

Some say The "Abib" Hebrew calendar begins with the equinox; fall or spring there is some debate. Others say that it begins as the barley is "green and tender in the ear" ["Abib" translate as such] at the first crest moon. Either way to declare Saturday or Sunday the only day to Worship is ludicrous! The principle is work six and rest one.

What matters is what body you are called to, to come into unity with that body and arrange your schedule to adapt whatever day of the week they meet. Even if you are far away and you will rest in the Lord and be caught up in the Spirit with your brothers and sisters of that body, then in the Spirit realm differences are being made in the body of Christ. If you give yourself to this unity of the body then God will help arrange your schedule to do so.

Spiritual principle still applies for it is the heart of God’s goodness towards us. Not legalism, but rather Spirit and Truth! An example of this thought is in Colossians 2:10-17 "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ"

Therefore we see a principle of God’s Word come forth in Paul’s day when God recorded in His word Hosea 2:11 "I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. "

Did not Paul also declare in Romans 11 there would come a time when God will restore Israel? When the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled [Romans 11:25] indicated by the fact that God starts to graft His people back into the fold as their eyes and ears are opened to the truth of Christ Jesus our Lord. Is this not the day we are living in? Where Jewish people are receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ by the thousands! Why do you think God has broken this seal or mystery of the "Corn, the wine, and the oil" [the truth of the tithe] till now? Wake up Church! The Bridegroom cometh! Trim your lamps make ready for the day will spring upon us like a thief in the night! The land-earth healed out of such a simple recipe of fasting and repentance, charity, and celebration of God’s goodness that one day in seven is given to such worship! Look again to Hosea when the time of gentiles is completely over:

Hosea 2:19-23 "19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."

2 Chronicles 7:14

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

The truth of the Principle still stands; ready to bring the Principality of Christ into power in the Land. Not because of legalism, but because of desire for the lover of our souls.

The Word records Jeremiah 17 talks of how that God will send in the principalities and powers of heaven to come and bring His reign upon those whom will observe this.

Jeremiah 17:24-25 "And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever"

Sounds to me that Jesus, the only King and Prince of Peace sitting upon the throne of David along with his heavenly hosts, are coming to town to break, even destroy yokes.

It may not be cities just yet, but at least congregations.

How in the world could we, by the power of the word of God and his Spirit, get the people of the busy life to even consider it for themselves? Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Let God do the work. Begin your journey by abiding in some principles and God will honor his word and will dispatch the Principalities. The Charity of tithes and offerings, This is another piece of the puzzle.

[Genesis 14] The original tithe was a celebration! Therefore the foundation of the tithe is a celebration of victory over the enemy! It involved food, bread and wine, communion, from the minister of God, and victuals [food] from the battle won as well as everything else because the word says "all". Plus Abram "gave" tithes of all unto this King of Salem (peace). Melchizedek is formed from two Hebrew words. The first word meaning King: and the second translates as "righteousness, just, justice, righteous cause, or cry". Hebrews Chapter 7 lets us know that we have returned to the order of Melchizedek priest hood in Christ Jesus. Therefore the original principles of the tithe are in Genesis 14 with Abraham and in Genesis 28 & 35 with Jacob. Before we discuss Jacob I would like to cover the principles under the law. God got very particular under the Law as to these tithes, yet even under Law, God expanded His view and intent of the tithes and offerings unto charity as well as celebration.

Now let’s look a tithing under the law and see its Spiritual implications:

Leviticus 27:30

" And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord."

Therefore it is up to God to let us know how He wants this done.

Deuteronomy 12:5 "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:"

"A place" the principle is that one should seek God’s face as to where He would have your and your family to worship. This thought is carried also in the writings of Peter in that he stated that we are "lively stones rightly fitted together forming the temple of God" In the days of the law, this was Jerusalem. But Jesus told the woman at the well a change was in the works. Now it is the mind of the Spirit to place you where you can grow and help others to grow by the gifts and talents He has given you

Deuteronomy 12:6-9 "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. [Kind of sounds like the churches of today? Because of the principle of sound doctrine not being adhered to, let us challenge our leadership to come into the unity of the word. Uniting the Body of Christ in truth and Spirit for His Spirit is love!]

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

[Has the church fully come into the rest and the inheritance of even the basic spiritual warfare that Jesus told us that we should be and can be able to war against the enemy, Satan? Is this rest of Christ not found fully in the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) and are not these fruits on the best display when exercised in the unity of the body. Truly as stated in Hebrews 4 our true rest is in the finished works of Christ. When we cease from our own works and rest in Him. The Salvation of Christ is our individual rest or Sabbath. The idea that we come together in unity to worship and fellowship has the power within to pour without into our fallen communities, not legalism but love! Love for God and love for our neighbor, sound familiar?]

Deuteronomy 12:10-23 "But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. [Family day]

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings [barbequeJ] in every place that thou seest:

But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. [Only on Holyday, in all thy gates, is the permission given under the law for the Jews to eat clean and unclean!]

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Thou mayest not eat within thy gates [the local assembly] the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock [these went to the national feast of Tabernacle or feast of the harvest everything else was celebrated "within thy gates" and that is the truth, yet the Spirit of the Truth in the modern church would be that we still celebrate God’s goodness with feasting and worship in fellowship with God and our communities!], nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. [Strength of ones labor]

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite [heave offerings Numbers 18] as long as thou livest upon the earth.

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. [Look at the liberty here!]

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh"

This makes two witnesses of principle in scripture, that one is to eat, at least a portion of ones tithe as a part of rejoicing before the Lord in the place where God chooses to commune with God’s minister and His people and ones family. Let us look to a third witness.

Now also in Deuteronomy 14

Deuteronomy 14:22-29 "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest."

A lot of preachers seem to think that this feast of celebration and charity was only done every three years. But if we will look honestly into the scriptures, we find that individually they were to return with their three-year tithe, not congregational! This was to be done if the way was too far, [thee]; otherwise they were expected to be there every week as possible as indicated in Deuteronomy 12 for their local feasting.

I know that this passage is talking of the Feast of Weeks of the Feast of Tabernacles. Yet specifically was the tithe of the seed, corn, wine, oil, firstlings, freewill offerings, and vows. Where were the other tithes celebrated, possibly in the local assembly feast day of the Sabbath? Thus "feasting" of the tithe was a weekly on going event at the local temple on the Lord’s Day. Three years was the maximum time God was willing to allow under the law for an individual to wait to come and "eat and worship" before Him in the place where they had been called too. After all in the list of feasts the first and foremost one is our fourth witness in scripture: How was this local feast funded? The three major national feasts done annually are mentioned in Deuteronomy 16.

Two out of three, mentions the people of God’s "Charity" as mentioned in Deuteronomy 14; Feast of Weeks,), Feast of Tabernacles, (tithes of corn and wine and oil and meat offerings -barbeque)

Therefore the very least we know now this was not a feast done every three years, as some would suggest, but rather a time limit given to those who were too far away to attend the annual "Feasts". This also applied to the local assembly for those that were off on some endeavor for the rest of the tithes and offerings. This evidence is given in the vow of the three tithe of Deuteronomy 26:12-15. Three years of tithes at one time, now that’s a party! Another evidence of this time limit thought is in Deuteronomy 14:23 where it mentions the tithe and the firstlings. Remember these where two separate feasts outlined in Deuteronomy t 16. 16:9 shows first fruits since this feast was 7 weeks after the start of the corn harvest and plainly states freewill offerings. Because all the first fruits belong to the ministry, free will offerings of the people the tithes of the ministry is the only way this feast could then be funded. Tithes were partaken of at the end of harvest feast, the Feast of Tabernacles. Today we are called to an assembly. As stated before to be rightly formed together creating the body of Christ.

John 4:21-24 "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Another witness:

Leviticus 23:2-3 "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings"

Deuteronomy 14:29, 16:11 & 14- Malachi 3:5 speaks of a special to God group of people and about a right to have in the celebration of the Lord's tithe and offerings! This right is also dealt with in church leadership’s favorite chapter on preaching on "paying" your tithes Malachi, who is a messenger of the future church, our next witness in scripture:

Malachi 3:5-12 "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling [laborer] in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts."

Remember Malachi is not writing to the nation. He is writing to the leadership! In this passage God writes, "…I change not". Therefore the principle that is going to be expressed is a continuing one. Look at the first of this chapter:

Malachi 3:1-5 "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. [A restored path?]

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling (laborer) in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts."

What is this "right" of the laborer in his wages, the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger that has to do with tithing? Remember Deuteronomy 14:29, 10:18-19, 16:11&14, 26:11-13, 27:19, Ex 23:12?

Where then is the "hireling in his wages" being oppressed? I am robbing God of His intent, if I as a minister of God’s grace and goodness, I were to horde up the money of the tithes and/or offerings. Not encouraging or even just allow the rights of the poor laborer to go out and purchase [Deuteronomy 14:25] what they desire with God’s tithe to celebrate the Lord’s Day. His intent: of worship with charity at His house.

He is seeking those to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. His word is truth. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty, true? True! Then it only stands to reason that more liberty means more Spirit! If this more liberty is being extended to the body through this worship of God by restoring the right of the believer of tithes and offerings then the body will become more empowered. Therefore not allowing this brings the opposite of a blessing – a curse. Does anybody else beside me know how it is to feel oppressed in paying the tithe out of duty when ones finances were strapped for just the basic necessities, and then it was grieving and not joyous? Do not you see the difference in rejoicing and worship that would come from the individual that was able to eat before the Lord things that he would not even normally be able to afford to buy for himself and his family? Much more, the workers delight of their' labors going towards the charity of their community. For the worker was also to encourage those people they know to invite them into God’s house, with an emphasis on the needy and the priesthood. I would be robbing God of His intent for the tithe and oppressing the labor in his wages by not affording him this privilege and Holy right in God’s Holy word. Could someone enter into worship of the living God if they were to come to God’s House and had not eaten for some time? How much more would be their worship if their basic need of natural food were met? This is a matter of the heart. Has anyone else been grieved by seeing some needy person and not having any extra money to help? Can you not see the relief of guilt to see even the poorest of labors watching his a portion of his hard earned living being partaken of those even less fortunate than himself?

Obviously, for the Lord has blessed the current way of paying tithes and leaving God’s house to rush to the local restaurants or home, or has He? Divorce rates are at an all time high! Children’s disobedience is out of the box! Moral character is shot, and the list goes on. Maybe it would be a good idea for the ministers of God to get back to the foundational promises for blessings and watch God do the work in our society. Because, it is also about the fellowship of God’s people that changes society as well as the fellowship of families that positively molds individuals.

There are many more witnesses in the Old Testament! I have been you’re the "ingredients" to be able to find them. One more though is Deuteronomy 27:19

"Cursed be he that perverteth [by implication to bend away] the judgment [or right] of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen."

Let’s look at some in the New Testament.

Luke 11:37-42 "And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: [God’s irony] and he went in, and sat down to meat.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."

Jesus is invited to dinner. Let us look at God’s irony! The Pharisees [sons of Levi, Paul’s is an example how this was: [Acts 22:3 "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day."

[Eaton’s Bible Dictionary notes on "Gamaliel": reward of God.

(2.) The son of Rabbi Simeon, and grandson of the famous rabbi Hillel. He was a Pharisee, and therefore the opponent of the party of the Sadducees. He was noted for his learning, and was president of the Sanhedrim during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, and died, it is said, about eighteen years before the destruction of Jerusalem.

A zealous Pharisee named Gamaliel counseled moderation and calmness when the apostles were brought before the council. They were charged with preaching the resurrection of Jesus. By a reference to well-known events, he advised them to "refrain from these men."

If their work or counsel was of man, it would come to nothing; but if it was of God, they could not destroy it, and therefore ought to be on their guard lest they should be "found fighting against God" (Acts 5:34-40). Paul was one of his disciples]

These Pharisees ("sons of Levi" Malachi 3:3) were bent out of shape because Jesus did not wash (Malachi 3:2) his hands before eating. Jesus comments on how they wash the outside of their dishes but their insides are full of "ravening"… which means robbery (Malachi 3:8):

"Ravening" extortion, ravening, spoiling) the act of plundering, robbery 2) plunder spoil

…And wickedness. Then calls them fools because God has "made that which is without" (the poor Malachi 3:5b) has also made "that which is within" their spirits as well, (everyone’s worth, their soul). He then makes reference to charity (alms Malachi 3:5b in light of Deuteronomy 14:29, Deuteronomy 16:11 & 14) of the "such things that you have". (Their tithes and offerings before God at God’s house that was supposed to be shared, they probably took this "three"-year precept literally and would not let the poor eat of their table regularly, thus pass over judgment and the love of God). Then he says, "behold all things are clean to you" which has a double reference of health in Isaiah 58 and being able to eat the clean and the unclean on "Holyday" as described in Deuteronomy 12 & 14. But to put the nail in their spiritual coffin, Jesus makes direct reference to the tithe! Therefore its order of charity! Thus Jesus is fulfilled as being the messenger sent to the son’s of the priesthood written of in Malachi proving again some of God’s intentions for the tithes and offerings! Concluding that this is the will of Jesus Christ himself and what is taught and recorded in both Testaments

Is there any other reference in the New Testament to this feast of charity? Several!

Why were deacons created? Because the widows were neglected:

Acts 6:1-7 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

[Result…]

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith."

The celebration feast of charity referred to in the New Testament, the "feasts of charity [agape]" in Jude,

Jude 1:12 "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"

The feasts were spotted not cut off! Order of feasts is discussed by Paul in 1st Corinthians 5 and 11

Peter,

2Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;"

1st Corinthians 5:1-13 "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast… [This word "feast" is translated in my study bible as Holyday. The only things that feast and Holyday have in common is the eating of tithes and offerings before the Lord]…not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Why did Paul write this but in chapter 11 He talked about not bringing food to the solemn moment of consecrated communion? Could it be that he was expounding upon chapter 5? Since "doctrine" must be line upon line and precept on precept then this is the only conclusion that can be made. Putting forth the order of the love of others at the feast instead of selfishness and self-indulgence, for those he told to go home.

1st Corinthians 11:17-34 "Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come"

We are to reverence the blood and flesh of the body of our Lord in remembrance of the Cross, but also in acknowledgment of our brothers and sisters in Christ who make up His Body! Truly if I were to hoard up my tithes and offerings to myself and my family or even interrupt the service by eating, because I was famished, I would be out of order. Or even come to the service and do anything out of respect for the Holy Spirit and what is going on in the service because I was to selfish to wait (or tarry) for others being dealt with by the Holy Spirit then I would be out of order. Therefore Paul is writing about doing things in order as stated in verse 34. It is the only conclusion again since Paul instructs, "to eat" in verse 33, and in verses 19-22, Paul writes of the disrespect that people are having in God’s house to God’s ways. Therefore he is expounding on what he had already written in chapter 5; concluding the thought of "order" in the last verse of this chapter.

Numbers 18:11 "…that is clean shall eat of it" shows us the precept that the Holy Spirit has already given and Paul expounds upon in 1st Corinthians 5 & 11. Another perception on this subject is that if someone comes into the feast of the Lord unworthy. Because of a non-repenting life and has already tasted of the Spiritual body of Christ and His Holiness, goodness, and just ways. And unjustly takes of the community of believers offerings up the Lord ("not discerning the Lord's body") which will bring judgment upon them. Others who enter into the congregation and hear, taste, and see that the Lord is good and do not act upon the conviction of the Lord in their life will experience the judgment of God in time to come. Even as the peoples of Sodom and Gomorrah who ate and drank of the Lord’s cup after seeing the Goodness of God through His servant Abram overcoming great odds, by God’s mercy, strength, and grace, restoring their lives and goods. Yet still failed to seek after God! These two separate yet inter-twined precepts that show themselves. In the Old Testament the feast of Atonement "unleavened bread" [a one day intercession of fasting and prayer for the nation], and the feast of leavened bread. A celebration of the community of Israel: again only in the Spirit of the truth of these not in their strict order under law.

Paul gives an idea of "order" God wants in His House by setting some boundaries among the body of believers in 1st Corinthians 5 &11. And this was order for "a man" therefore its conclusion is that of a mature Christian in the Spirit and person, and not for the new convert or immature child. Therefore judge righteously even as our Lord commanded in John 5:30 & 7:24 leaving the Judgment to the Holy Spirit and follow what He gives you. This cornerstone being Christ, His Holy Word in true doctrine is our check and balance of the Christian walk.

Reverting back, to an order like unto that of the order of Melchizedek, The King of Salem. Only more perfected, with the will of God concerning this environment that we live between Heaven and Hell: Is this the "plan" or "strategy" that the last day church needs to fulfill God’s plan to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh? Would not it be in God’s since of irony that he "pours out" His Spirit upon all flesh when the body of Christ seeks out the "poor" and "downcast" of this earth, restoring the rights of Joy and Celebration in the congregation of the righteous?

Remember Christ said He came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it? Does not this strategy fulfill the two most Holy of commands: "To love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as you do yourself?"

What happens when you want to get weeds out of your garden? What does one do? Most of us understand that if you do not get the root then the weed, it will return. God has shown me that permitting people to eat before the Lord of their tithes and/or offerings attacks evil at its very root, "The love of money"

Next witness

Are we aware that the word "Charity" of 1st Corinthians 14 is translated as: agape: 1) brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence 2) love feasts

The "gifts" indicated of 1st Corinthians would be to accent this event of Worship with Charity to help evangelize the lost and to edify the body of Christ? In researching the word "Hospitality", I found that it takes on different aspects, Protection, Shelter, Food, and Clothing and healing attention if needed. One of the comments that stick in my mind that in Mid-Eastern culture: "to share food is to share life."

Jesus King of kings, would he not want his favorite subjects to be at his table; namely the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger? If the leadership of the church were to trust God by Trusting for the increase, and not rob the community of they’re rights. The right of the tithe and offering, returning it to a celebration of food, and dancing, music, and preaching etc…along with the Spiritual warfare of fasting foundation laid. The word of God is telling us that Jesus will establish His rule in our very congregations and cities. I know that I do not understand it all but I do know that this revelation is as real as the word of God gets!

One could only imagine the blessings that will flow to the people of God. Tithing now would become a delight to them and the offerings above the tithe would be the blessings of increase to them. Malachi warning was more for the religious people than it was to the nation all though the nation became guilty too. But since their "rights" were not being permitted, they knew it, if not naturally, then in their spirit. (The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath Mar 2:27-28.)

I would think that they became to resent the tithe and the ministers who kept fleecing the flock for salary, pretty building programs, etc… and not for the basic needs of the people so that they could celebrate the Lord uninhibited. One can not ignore the warnings of Jeremiah 12:10

"Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."

Jeremiah 23:1-4

" Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD."

And

Ezekiel 34:2-3

"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? [3] Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock."

After being raised from the dead, what was it that Christ told Peter at the barbeque event?

John 21:15-17

"So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. [16] He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. [17] He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep."

Only food certainly not! Jeremiah 3:15

"And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."

Remember "Pass the Salt"?

… [Nehemiah 10:38-39 describes this "heave" offering cut out for the sanctuary. "And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house"

Either this is elaborating upon this idea or it is adding another tithe. I don’t believe God is adding another tithe. Since we do not have the central place for the whole nation of believers to come to [they had a local assembly as well, "cities of our tillage" (Nehemiah 10:37)] but rather our center is in Christ under this New Covenant of the order of Melchizedek. [Matter of fact God reveals that this order was Spiritual stated in that Abraham was to a person (Genesis 14), and Jacob to a place (Genesis 35). Giving more evidence of God’s intent in Numbers 18]

The weekly event as discussed by Paul in 1st Corinthians. 16:2 we must look at the context of the scripture:

1 Corinthians 16:1-3 "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem."

"Liberality" translates:

"Charis, from Greek (chairo); graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): - acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace (-ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy)."

It would seem that this is not the Tithe as some would have us to believe, but rather an offering being collected weekly for the Saints in Jerusalem, doesn’t it? If not then why doesn’t our churches take God’s tithe and send it to Saints in Jerusalem? A silly question for and obvious answer, it was an offering. An offering Paul took to Jerusalem probably with his heave offering to the leadership of the church. Which knowing Paul’s background is more the likely?

As explained like in Hebrews 7 men here receive tithes. Which gives liberty and explanations for the heaving of ministers to their spiritual fathers that raise them up in the ministry and or the house of God as the Holy Spirit gives judgment to do so.

Numbers 18:26b-32 "…from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.

Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, [best of the best] even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things [tithes, offerings, and vows; Deuteronomy 12] of the children of Israel, lest ye die."

If the people were to be released into worshiping God, with their tithes, offerings, the level of celebration would automatically rise up spiritually. Therefore God will honor His word and manifest Himself in their life and breaking poverty in time by taking them from poverty thinking. It changes the imagination of the body as a whole. This is what the word indicates if exercised properly. Even the simplest of people realize that they are going to eat. It would not be hard to convince them of this benefit that they are missing. God’s blessing in their life by partaking of the fellowship of His people and rejoicing eating some favorite foods in His presence. How easily would our congregations and communities gain God’s blessings! Does not one see how this often drudgery for the poor of paying tithes (i.e. new converts) now becomes a "delight"? Which translated "delight" means "soft and pliable" like putty or clay ready to be molded into the vessel of design.

Psalms 37:3-8 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil

Does not Psalms 37:6 sounds like Isaiah 58:10?

Isaiah 58:10 "And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day"

Did not Jesus say in Luke 4:18-19, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord".

This comes from,

Isaiah 61:1-3

"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

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".

As I was going up the road one Sunday, God reminded me that most of the miracles done by Jesus were done on the Sabbath. My Pastor enlightens me as to the fact that just so happens to be the time when the people of Israel were giving the most praise and delighting themselves in the Lord. The next verse in Isaiah goes with a verse in Isaiah 58,

Isaiah 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."

Isaiah 58:12 " and they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in"

Interesting, isn’t it? Maybe a Gospel to the poor because the poor were shunned at the temple because they were unable to afford this large offering of money, bull, lambs, etc… therefore were shunned at the feast that proceeded after. Maybe this a reason why the James talked to us about giving place to the rich but setting back or in a lower place the poor? In James 2

A little insight is to be found in this next passage.

Luke 14:15-24 "And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

Then said he (Jesus) unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper"

And;

Proverbs 19:17 "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."

How much more would God pay the churches’ needs? Maybe the Sabbath celebration is to be like a wedding ceremony: the reception, the fellowship, the music, ceremony, the supper, and the dancing. Don’t we feel closer to our spouses at weddings because we come into remembrance of our special day too? Do we not delight in seeing others come into unity?

Ephesians 5:31-32 "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."

The Song of Solomon is one of the desired Spiritual relationships that Christ would have with his church- the bride, and Spiritually! Maybe the Spiritual relationship in leadership would birth, and raise a church that God fully intended? To just still-away to the "garden’s" dark, and seek the lover of their souls full intent; even in the example of Jesus getting to the mountaintop and coming off the mountain to come among the people and manifesting the Father in His words and deeds.

Isaiah 58:13 "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:"

When Jesus came off the mountain [in the Glory of the Father, (doing Spiritual warfare by fasting and prayer)] preaching and healing in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit as an example of God in Man doing our heavenly Father’s will. One of Christ’s quotes is:

John 5:19 "Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

John 8:28 "Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things."

So Christ did as the Father showed Him and spoke as the Father had told Him. Therefore it was not Jesus’ words nor Jesus’ actions but the Father’s in the revelation and power of Christ. Is this not Isaiah 58:13*?

Isaiah 58:14 "Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

"…A delightsome land …" is quoted as a result of proper tithing in Malachi 3:14

So as Christ would still away to gain the Father’s will from Heaven for the earth for the ministry, Christ would descend the mountain doing as He saw and heard, is this not "thy Kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven"?

In Isaiah 62:

When Jerusalem (which means "a teaching of peace") becomes Hephzibah (the LORD delighteth in thee) and the desolate land becomes married to the Lord and called Beulah

Isaiah 62:1-9 "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee…

… The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness."

"Jerusalem" translates as the "teaching of peace"

"Hephzibah" translates as "my delight is in her" a name for Jesusalem

"Beulah" translates" as marry, husband, dominion, wife, and married wife;

1) to marry, rule over, possess, own 1a) 1a1) to marry, be lord (husband) over 1a2) to rule over 1b) to be married

Ephesians 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."

Did not Jesus say?

Luke 11:41 "But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you"

Dominion, rule, principles, doctrines, possesses the land and is married! And the power of the marriage overcomes the previous desolation.

In Genesis Jacob calls the "Luz" (a growing there) becomes "Bethel" (God’s House) interesting that: "Jerusalem" (a teaching of peace) becomes "Hephzibah" (my delight is in her)

God really wants to drive this point home at least with me and I pray with you too. Do you remember how to formulate proper doctrine? Look what God shows in Isaiah 28:

Isaiah 28:8 "For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean."

[In Jesus name, understand Jesus’ reference to a clean table! (In Luke 11)]

Isaiah 28:9 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts."

[He is saying it is time to grow up and put the Word over tradition.]

Isaiah 28:10 "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"

Again Doctrine is established by contextual references woven together to bring a base to it.

Isaiah 28:11 "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people."

God’s Spirit is saying that the revelations of scripture which is already in front of us will come through His Holy Spirit falling upon us. The scripture tells us that this is "rest" we need for empowerment and greater relationship with our Heavenly Father. Do you think that just maybe this "rest" is somehow connected to the Holyday {Sabbath [intermission or rest]?

Did not the Church explode on Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples? Soon thereafter they were going from house to house breaking bread, then forming Deacons for the Administration of the Charity.

Isaiah 28:12 "To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear."

Is this not a direct reference to the Sabbath’s day (rest) and especially its table (feast) and the weary ones (the poor naturally and spiritually) that are to share it? The Holy Scriptures tells us that not everyone speaks in tongues, therefore the "rest" must be when the Holy Spirit is upon us or we are in His presence. There is no greater time than when the Body of Christ comes into Unity and commits a day unto Him resting in His presence.

There seems to be great implications here that the Principalities and Powers of darkness are succumbed and the God of Goodness overtakes.

The celebrating of Holyday, It starts with the family in its divine design. It continues with family and community and extends the wealth of the blessings of God on a family to reach into the community so that to enrich them towards God.

"Psalms 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him".

Psalms 34:8, does it not sound like an invitation to dinner and sights or maybe signs and wonders? The blessing comes to the one who puts their trust in him. Is this just a coincidence?

Some will say that this is far fetched. Yet if one gives any credence to the Church Age Theory or even to just the realization that American churches meet much of the outline of Rev 3,

…the angel (messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans write;

Revelation 3:15-22 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

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.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

Do you not feel it also ironic that Jesus wants to come into the church and eat?

Why all of this? Simply it’s the heart! In one of the stories of Jesus, some friends gathered up one who was lying sick upon a bed. The crowd was so great in the house where Jesus was that the friends went to the roof open the thatching and lowered their friend’s body to Jesus. The first thing Jesus said was "Be of good cheer! Your sins have been forgiven." This caused yet another uproar with the religious crowd for they felt only God could forgive sins and not a man. Jesus said, "What is easier, for me to forgive this man his sins or to say to him rise up and walk? But so that you know that the son of man has power to do both, rise take up your bed and walk!" And the man did!

"Be of good cheer" is the reason. It has also been translated as "have a happy, positive, confidence". Jesus prepares the heart so that the Spirit of God can do His work in these ones life. But not only this one but also everyone! This celebration of God’s Holyday, brings a "happy, positive, confidence" where God can move. The fellowship that comes with the eating of tithes and offerings communicates better the needs of the widow, the fatherless, and the stranger among the congregation. The Liberty of a laborer able to eat of his labors before the Lord even if they are not able to afford an offering or not, these with praise and worship affected by the preaching and teaching of the word of God. Setting the heart in order, for the work of the Spirit let us remember the focus of the fast was to:

Isaiah 58:6 "…to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"

Since the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath the freeing of the heart is essential. The hungry = bread, heavy burden undone, the homeless = finding shelter again heavy burden undone, the naked = clothed, heavy burden undone. The widow finds a willing body to come and do honey-do’s that she is no longer able to do nor can afford to farm out. The fatherless finds older men if not but for a day, but dare say more, as relationships build from this one day fellowship of God’s goodness. The stranger finds hospitality of love in a city of refuge and discovers the God of the Universe loves him too. The laborer working day in day out just to make ends meet. Along with the worries trails and tribulations of raising a family can find rest for his weary life at the house of God. Seeing God use this labor’s earnings effect his whole community, suddenly the oppressions of life becomes a delight not only to him but to all who are sitting in unity as the family of God enjoys each other and the presence God’s Holy Spirit. All this to loosen the bands of wickedness: Preparing the heart; and cause sinners/backsliders to repent into the loving arms of Christ. Did not Jesus say?

Matthew 11:25-30 "at that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Which burden is easier, the "have to" paying of tithes monetarily, or the right to either give money or the sharing of giving of tithes that is consumed by the community of the family of God, where all things become common, expect for the heave offering. How will the bills get paid? Will not this bankrupt the houses of God? Expect the Lord Build the House it is built in vain. By faith the houses will stand, by faith God will move bringing in more monies than could ever be needed, that is God’s promise. [Jeremiah 17:26, Isaiah 60-62, Numbers 14:8] After all if we do this God’s way how can we fail? Unless; it was vanity that built the house in the first place or non-repenting sin has entered in. Leaving the "first love" robs the church of their power in the Kingdom and therefore the community. To let the peoples heart be prepared and loosed to have a happy, positive, and confidence in the God of the Bible. The house of God is to watch and see the miracles, signs, wonders, salvation’s, and etc… that will fill the house of God and run into the community and into the world beyond! Like a river! Like a driven rain poured out!

Remember these words once again when contemplating the questions of the last paragraph:

Matthew 6:31-33 "Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

Not doing so… if indeed God has opened your understanding to this: Read the book of Amos for an indication of God’s Spiritual indignation and Malachi chapter 4. Also read Deuteronomy 28, and Revelation 2 & 3. Remember His word says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever more. He changes not! What He has done for one He will do for another! Blessing or cursing! The choice is yours, and

The choice is to the body of believers that we are apart of.

Deuteronomy 27:19 "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen."

Perverteth can translate as to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows): apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.

"Judgment" translate as: properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or [participle] divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstract justice, including a participle right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style :- + adversary, ceremony, charge, × crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just (-ice, -ly), (manner of) law (-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, × worth, + wrong.

Proverbs 11:1 "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." [Black Horse]

If one looks at the articles that are presented in the 3rd seal of Revelation 6 of the Black Horse does this mystery revealed indicate the opening of the seal? If Christ is the Crowned Conqueror of the White Horse and the reformation and publishing of the Word of God (sword) which brought on so much blood shed is the Red Horse. Look to the articles, are they not the items of the feast of tabernacles, the feast of the tithes and offerings of the Kingdom of God?

Revelation 6:5-6 "And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine"

Deuteronomy 14:23 "And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn…

["Corn" translates

corn, wheat ,wheat, cereal, grain, ]

…of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. "

"…hurt…" translates as: to be unjust, i.e. (active) do wrong (moral, socially or physical) :- hurt, injure, be an offender, be unjust, (do, suffer, take) wrong.

Numbers 14:8 "If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey".

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Jeremiah 31:9-14 "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause (Isaiah 57:16-19) them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way (Isaiah 58:12), wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together (Isaiah 60:5) to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd (barbeque)(Isaiah 58:13-14) and their soul shall be as a watered garden (Isaiah 58:11); and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice (Isaiah 58:14) from their sorrow.

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD."

"Goodness" translates as:

good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlatively concrete the best), beauty, gladness, welfare :- fair, gladness, good (-ness, thing, -s), joy, go well with.

God calls it His goodness when Moses asked to see his Glory!

Exodus 33:18-19

And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

Remember it is the Pale Horse of death that follows the Black Horse! Could this be the fulfillment of Malachi 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."?

Furthermore in the Spirit of forming Doctrine, how these following verses compare?

A) [Joel 2:1 "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;"

Isaiah 58:1 "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."]

B) [Joel 1:13-16 "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"

Joel 2:12-17 "Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?"

Isaiah 58:2-6 "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"]

C) Joel 2:18-22 "Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength"

Isaiah 58:7-11 "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. {protection from the enemies}

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."

Psalms 23:4-5 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Genesis 35:1-5 "1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob."

Jeremiah 31:11 "For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he."

Psalms 68:11-12 "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil."

Hosea 2:22 "And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel."

- {In Jezreel was the valley or the plain where many battles took place victory or defeat i.e. Gideon vs Saul. Victory is given when heard is the corn, the wine, and the oil}

Malachi 3:11 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts"

D) Isaiah 58:11 "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not"

Jeremiah 31:12-14 "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD."

Joel 2:21-29 "Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

Nehemiah 8:9-12 "And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them."

Deuteronomy 11:14 " That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil."

Psalm 68:9-10 "Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. [10] Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor."

E) Joel 2:27-28 "And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

Jeremiah 31:12-14 "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD."

Isaiah 58:14 "Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

Joel 2:32 "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call."

Remember it is a matter of the heart…

Isaiah 35:1-10 "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee"

Psalms 126:1-6 "When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.… [Fasting and supplication helps to break the "captivity"] … They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. away."

The same pattern for the Kingdom of God continues in Esther:

The Enemy's plot for destruction (Esther 3)

The Fast (Esther 4)

The Approaching or supplication to the King (Ester 5) [King of kings first, the fast]

(Notice in Chapter 6 the King's is restless and opens the books of remembrances)

The Feast (Esther 7)

The Enemy's plan Declared and his ensuing defeat. (Esther 7)

The Proclamation of the King for the victory of the Land (Esther 8)

How about in Nehemiah:

The Enemy's plot for destruction (Nehemiah 1:2-3)

The Fast (Nehemiah 1:4)

The Approaching or supplication to the King (Nehemiah 1:5-11, 2:1-8)

Before the feast a freeing of the heart was granted to the people in

The Feast (Nehemiah 8:8-12) for God's Holyday!

In Ephesians 2:19-22 Paul the Apostle tells us that we are the entire household of God. And that we are the building, fitly framed together, that grows into a holy temple of the Lord. This building built together is centered upon the chief corner stone with the master builder's plumb line coming from it, therefore it is not my opinion or yours but rather Christ's instruction that gives the proper structure its alignment. The foundation radiates it surety. What plumb line is the current church coming from, Tradition or Word? Previously in this volume we established that Jesus fulfilled the prophetic word of Malachi 3. Then would he not be the chief corner stone for tithes and offerings?

Ephesians 2:19-22 "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

Therefore let us let Christ be Lord. Lord in our individual lives putting Him first, in our churches, in every thing and let God rule by His doctrine not man’s. If you made it to the end of enduring this work and are indeed enlighten to it’s revelations you are now accountable and should pass it on for the honor of our Lord and King. May the Lord help us all to let go and let God!

Now you understand more than ever that God Loves A Good Barbeque! It is His Goodness that we glory in together as the family of God.

 Acts 20:28-32

"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.

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all."