FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
DANCING IN THE SHEKINAH GLORY OF GOD
July 14, 2011-The missing children have been a deep concern on the Lord's heart and he placed a prayer burden in my life for this. Recently, the disappearance, search and discovery of the body of the 8 year old Brooklyn, New York boy who was walking to meet his mother, after day camp has shocked our nation. That this child was found murdered, has had a significant impact upon my family and I and I've grieved over this a great deal, for the boy, his family, his community, and the loss of his life and future influence in this world. Today as waited upon the Lord, I was given a vision of the boy which went on for quite some time, first when he was still alive and then he was in heaven. In his life he was with his sisters and he believed he could be with Messiah, and he would invite Messiah to be with him as his friend.
I saw the boy say as he was not able to keep that meeting...Thinking of his father I saw him say in his heart in the vision: "I will have to meet you in heaven."
The child was aware that Messiah was with him. I saw the boy and he was whirling in circles, caught up into light so bright that I cannot describe it. There he was dancing and dancing in the presence of Messiah. When Shabbat begins "the Shekinah is invited to enter in. Shabbat is defined as "the bride." Shekinah is defined as the Divine Presence. It is the visible manifestation of the glory of God. The concept of Shekinah is behind the wonder of the incarnation. The very tabernacle of God dwelled in flesh, was handled and God's glory was "beheld."
Shekinah is depicted as "a dove" as widom, and as endless light." The Hebrew word "SHAKAN-shknh" means "to take up residence." ("Dwelling in the light no man can approach unto. - I Timothy 6:16)
Messiah said: I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No mancomes to the Father but through Me. (John 14:6) Again He stated: He that has seen Me has seen the Father. I and My Father are ONE." (John 10:30) How is salvation appropriated? Genesis 3:14-15 are the earliest mention of the fact that Satan would bruise the heel of the seed of the woman. But her seed would crush his head.
WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME:
On the day of Pentecost, people from every nation under heaven heard Peter proclaim a wonderful truth. We can invite the very presence of Messiah not only to dwell with us in shabbat, but to dwell in us as the very temple of God. Peter stated the invitation in this way, saying: Repent, be baptized every one of you in the name of Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ and you WILL receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38, Acts 8:16, Acts 10:46-48, Acts 19:5) It states: And when they were come down, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet He was fallen upon none of them. Only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus...(Acts 8:16)
WHERE TWO OR MORE ARE GATHERED, MESSIAH IS IN THEIR MIDST
The word synagogue is from the Greek term SYNAGOGE, meaning a gathering assembly. It is derived from SYN="together," and AGO, "together or to bring together." By the first century, synagogue had come to mean a building, not merely the people themselves. However, the word of God speaks of the living gathered unto Him as "blood-bought" worshippers, through faith in Messiah's atonement for sin, as efficacious to remove sin, enabling the individual to "draw near" to God with a pure heart through faith in Yeshua ha Mashiach/Jesus Christ our Messiah. "What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, which ye have of God and you arenot your own?" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) Through mikveh mayim/water baptism we enter into and appropriate the death, burial and resurrection of Messiah. Rabbai Shaul explained how the resurrection life of Christ works in the lives of believers in I Corinthians 15.
Synagogue is similar to the word EKKLESIA "a calling together," which is translated as "church." Ek="from out of," and klesia from the root KALEO, from which the English word "call" comes from.
BELIEVING ON MESSIAH
As the scriptures have said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua ha Mashiach and you will be saved. (John 3:14, Acts 16:31) WHOEVER BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED SHALL BE SAVED. BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE WILL BE CONDEMNED. (Mark 16:16) Believing in Messiah's atoning sacrifice for the sins of all mankind, believers are to be baptized into the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. (Colossians 2:12) How should believers be baptized? By full immersion in water. The Greek tword BAPTIZO means to "dip, plunge, submerge, immerse in water." The picture is one of dying to the old life of sin and the sin nature and being buried and then rising to walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4, Romans 6:3-5)
There are three accounts of Messiah's own baptism. (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22) When Messiah was baptized, to fulfill all righteousness, he did so as an example because he is the sinless Lamb of God. As John baptized Him, he came up out of the water. (Mark 1:9-10) John was baptizing in Aenon because there was much water there. (John 3:23) Following Christ's baptism, he and his disciples baptized large numbers of believers. (John 3:22, 4:1-2) Messiah proclaimed the importance of baptism as the believer believes on and is baptized into Christ. (Mark 16:16)
On the Day of Pentecost, 3000 believed on the Lord and experienced this "new birth" spoken of in scripture. When the crowd inquired what they must do to be saved, Peter proclaimed: Repent, be baptized every one of you in the name of Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38, Acts 8:16, Acts 10:46-48, Acts 19:5)
Through the new birth, the individual that is joined to the Lord is "ONE SPIRIT." (1 Corinthians 6:17) Now ye are the body of Christ and members inparticular. (1 Corinthians 12:27) We are members of His body--of His flesh and of His bones. (Ephesians 5:30)
DWELLING UNDER GOD'S PROTECTION PSALM 91
Psalm 91 proclaims the very heart of God to shelter and protect His people who have made Him their Saviour and Lord. God cares that His people have set their affections and love upon Him and this has deep significance to Him. Inreading this psalm, you will see that calamities of all sorts are covered here. Attacks from without, whether sudden or premeditated are noted, as well as poisoning, and fatal disease.The crimes against humanity, including children continue to grow. The Lord spoke to me in prayer to continue to pray for the children, as so many of them as young victims have died an untimely death and more will yet die. Is it a long way off? No it's been increasing at an alarming rate and is even now at the door of homes of our nation, many of whom are unaware that danger stalks their children and the children throughout the world. And it is a flood tide which shall overflow it's banks and cause you to behold levels of devastation as you look out over this land. God would warn you not to behold it with natural eyes or you will see yourselves as grasshoppers amid a land of giants.
Our God is still I AM --Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever. (Hebrews 13:8) And when Satan comes in like a flood the Lord shall raise up a standard against him. And it shall be a standard of water and blood. Even when the corruption is so bad that it would seem your very rivers and streams would turn to blood. Stand therefore with your loins girt with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Wicked. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit--Watching thereunto with all perseverance for all saints. Our Great God and Saviour shall soon appear and His reward is with Him to render to every man as his work shall be. Blessed is the man whom He shall find watching when He comes I say to you that He will make that servant sit down to meat and He will come forth and serve him.
