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Therefore, dearly beloved, let us emulate David’s way of seeing things and pay no heed to the “Eliabs”⁸  among our brethren who, out of jealousy and being puffed up with their own importance, would prevent us from faithfully doing what our heavenly Father has placed on our hearts. Let us not fear man nor their might or position, but emulate Daniel and his friends who refused to bow their knee to a statue of the most powerful man on earth. Let us imitate our Lord Yeshua Who was not moved by what others thought or said of Him, although they called Him the “carpenter’s son,” even “Mary’s son” as an intentional slight that implied He had been born out of wedlock. His own brothers did not believe in Him, even His mother Miriam wavered at times, and John the Baptizer was temporarily shaken in his certainty. But our Lord was not! He knew Himself to be one with the Father, and that’s all that mattered! And our knowing ourselves one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit should be ALL that matters, regardless what others say or think of us, regardless of how we esteem ourselves.

Whether G-d saves by one or by many, it IS G-D WHO SAVES!!! We must never forget that! Once we know for certain a thing to be from the Lord we should obey it without fear or apprehension. We can ask for prayer support, for counsel, for input, but let us not shrink back from doing what G-d asks us of us because someone judges us too little to matter. 

Dear brothers and sisters, “this is the HOUR OF MATURITY!,” says the L-RD. “Summer is past and the fall has come, the time of ripening, of harvesting the fruit! This is the hour to prepare your lamps and ‘refills,’ to wash your clothes and put on your festal garments. I, the Lord am coming to my threshing floor, and I will thresh, and I will winnow, and will gather in the wheat, and the chaff among My Church the tempest will blow away. The hour of slumbering is long past! Do you not hear the sounds of the dawn? For the slumberers and sleepers among you will awaken suddenly to a terrible sound, the sound of disaster and anguish, the sound of terror and wrath. Do not think, 'I still have time, it will not come so soon. Day will follow after day as always, and we shall be safe,' for then it shall descend upon you suddenly and catch you unawares, your garments spotted and wrinkled, your lamps and your festal garments unprepared.” 

Beloved, let us not fool ourselves with believing that we are pleasing G-d by going from conference to conference, from one “revival” meeting to another “revival” meeting, while we yet carry grudges and bitterness in our hearts, anger and jealousy, unwillingness to forgive a wrong done or a falling short, taking offense at the drop of a hat, passing judgment on and speaking evilly behind the back of another, gossiping, slandering, maligning, divorcing and remarrying in the Body as if we were of the world, going to court against one another, being partial in showing love and preference, idolizing ministers and ministries. 

There is nothing wrong with going to some conferences called to by the Lord, but we can’t use it as a substitute for righteous and godly living, for loving one another as He loved us. It is not a “cloak” under which we may hide our grudges and unforgiveness, our bitternesses and resentments, our taking offense and passing of judgment, our envies and jealousies. It will not help us in the Presence of Him Who brings all things into the light, Who will judge every secret of our heart and every vainly spoken word.

“Look,” says the Lord, “I have prepared My measuring rod, and My balances have been polished and aligned. Every structure that is not of Me will tumble, every work founded on man’s will and wisdom will fall. Everyone who does not fulfill the measure and everyone who is found wanting in the balances will hear these words, ‘Truly, Truly, I tell you, I never knew you.’” 

“The hour of ripening has come,” says the Lord, “the time of maturing is at hand. I am the Lord of the harvest Who has made ready His storehouses to gather in His own. It is not by what man calls great that G-d measures, nor by what man esteems weighty in importance that G-d weighs. But this is the measuring rod I shall apply: Christ likeness; and this is the balances in which I shall weigh the saints: being doers of My commandments, of My Word of patient endurance. By this I shall thresh and winnow every man: whether he planted the works of his own mind and hands, and built his own structures; or whether he walked in faithfulness in the works I prepared beforehand that he should walk in them, works of righteousness inspired by Me.”

“I rejected the way of Cain,” says the Lord, “and his works and offerings I did not accept.” Whatsoever is not of G-d, whether in word or deed, in works or building, in fruit or spirit, in knowledge or garments of righteousness and holiness, it all is destined to come to nothing and be cast off as worthless. May we not end up entering His Kingdom as paupers, or worse yet, get rejected from entering it at all.

This is the hour of truth in the Church, in the same measure as truth is being cast to the ground and trampled upon by the world. This is the hour of our preparing in the same measure as vileness is being exalted in the world. This is the hour of the upward call, even as we see the pit drawing the world by a powerful downward vortex. This is the HOUR OF CHOICE: whom will we believe and obey? Whom will we follow and trust? To whom do we look for power and might?

G-d saves by one or by many, and puts a thousand to flight by one, and by two ten thousand. Whether one, or two, or many, it IS G-D WHO DOES IT! And He will give His glory to no other, and His praise to no man! But the humble of heart He will exalt, and the meek He will establish; and those who lean on Him for everything in their lives and are of a pure heart shall inherit His Kingdom and His promises.

In this letter I do not cover all the details of what happened lately in Israel, because I know that you have several sources who provide you with such news. Today I only give you this Word from the Lord as He has moved me to write to alert you with it. But let me remind you again of the Word the Lord spoke many years ago, and exhort you once again, my dear brothers and sisters: that whoever who does not stand with the People and Land of Israel and with Jerusalem the Holy City, has joined the enemies of G-d ⁹. For G-d calls the Land of Israel His OWN land, and the people of Israel HIS people, and the City of Jerusalem HIS city. Whoever then remains passive toward the plots and schemes of those who say, “Come, let us wipe Israel out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”; and keep silent when His enemies say, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of G-d,”¹⁰  shall neither inherit among the people of G-d nor in the land of Israel, nor shall have any portion in the city of G-d. It is not enough to say, “Lord, Lord! We believe!”, for the devils also believe --- and shudder¹¹. He who is not with and for the Lord and His people, land and city, is against Him, and shall share in the portion of Balaam, in the lot of Korah, Dathan and Abiram¹².

But blessed is everyone who has an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the churches!¹³