Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and<\/i> two months.<\/p>\n
2Ti 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this<\/i> life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
\n2Ti 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet<\/i> is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
\n2Ti 2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
\n2Ti 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Pro 9:10 The fear of the LORD <\/b>is<\/i><\/b> the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy <\/b>is<\/i><\/b> understanding.<\/b>
\nPro 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.<\/b>
\nPro 9:12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but <\/b>if<\/i><\/b> thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear <\/b>it.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\nOur example is Christ who in the days of his flesh feared God (Heb 5:7), and if Christ is abiding in us today as our hope of glory (Col 1:27), we also as his flesh and bones (Eph 5:30) should be moving through this life with the same spirit that fears God, as opposed to the spirit of anti-Christ that is trying to tear down the truth (2Jn 1:7, Rev 11:18-19) but will not prevail (Mat 16:18-19). It <\/b>takes the fear of the Lord within us to hew out those seven pillars which are also represented by the ark of Noah that was built by God’s prophet who moved with fear (Heb 11:7).<\/span><\/p>\nHeb 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;<\/p>\n
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.<\/p>\n
2Jn 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.<\/p>\n
Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth<\/span>\u00a0[they destroy the words of Christ but don’t prevail against the body of Christ<\/i> Mat 16:18].
\nRev 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe fear of the LORD is the beginning stage in our walk, and the only ground on which Christ our wisdom will build a new creation (Act 9:4-8) that will, through that sanctification process (Joh 17:17), come to understand “the knowledge of the holy <\/b>is<\/i><\/b> understanding<\/b>“.<\/span><\/p>\nAct 9:4 And he fell to the earth<\/span>, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
\nAct 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is<\/i> hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
\nAct 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?<\/span> And the Lord said<\/i> unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
\nAct 9:7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
\nAct 9:8 And Saul arose from the earth<\/span>; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: (1Jn 2:27) but they led him by the hand, and brought him<\/i> into Damascus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe reward that is promised to God’s elect for enduring to the end (Mat 24:13-14), and loving not our own life (Mat 10:39) is expressed with this verse (v. 11), “For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased<\/b>“. The ‘days multiplied’ and ‘our life increased’ are another way of telling us of the reward of being in that blessed and holy first resurrection (Rev 20:6).<\/span><\/p>\nMat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
\nMat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.<\/p>\n
Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.<\/p>\n
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is<\/i> he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If we have an unction, an anointing in this life by God (1Jn 2:20), we will, with the life of Christ within us, be wise unto ourselves, drinking water from our own cisterns, not made with man\u2019s hands that carved out wisdom with the carnal minds, but hewn out by our great Creator who has given us this high calling and privilege to imbibe in the living waters that come through Christ alone (Joh 7:38). Conversely if we scoff and lack the faith to believe the promises that God has given us in this life, then we will fall into the category of those who scoff and say our Lord delays his coming, and must bear that terrible consequence of unbelief in the lake of fire: “If thou be wise<\/b>, thou shalt be wise for thyself<\/b>: but<\/b> if<\/i> thou scornest<\/b>, thou alone shalt bear <\/b>it<\/i>“.<\/span><\/p>\n1Jn 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.<\/p>\n
Joh 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Pro 9:13 A foolish woman <\/b>is<\/i><\/b> clamorous: <\/b>she is<\/i><\/b> simple, and knoweth nothing.<\/b>
\nPro 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
\nPro 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:<\/b>
\nPro 9:16 Whoso <\/b>is<\/i><\/b> simple, let him turn in hither: and <\/b>as for<\/i><\/b> him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,<\/b>
\nPro 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread <\/b>eaten<\/i><\/b> in secret is pleasant.<\/b>
\nPro 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead <\/b>are<\/i><\/b> there; <\/b>and that<\/i><\/b> her guests <\/b>are<\/i><\/b> in the depths of hell.<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\nThese last verses are an admonition that describe the first woman we encounter in this life, where God’s people are taken into Babylonian captivity (Jer 25:11-12).<\/span><\/p>\nJer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and<\/i> an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
\nJer 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that<\/i> I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The terminology is not flattering, and was not meant to be, but it is what it is, as it describes the negative high places of Babylon which “call passengers who go right on their ways<\/b>” like a harlot, or city, or church that is corrupt and defiled. This description of the harlot church system is contrasted with the true church in the earlier verses that we’ve read.<\/span><\/p>\nPro 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she<\/span> hath hewn out her seven pillars:
\nPro 9:2 She<\/span> hath killed her beasts; she<\/span> hath mingled her wine; she<\/span> hath also furnished (arrange<\/i>, put in order<\/i>) her table. (Php 2:12-13)<\/p>\nPhp 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling<\/span>.
\nPhp 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his<\/i> good pleasure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIt is the simple, first blind man Adam in us, who is ‘turned in hither wanting understanding’, but not realizing that these are corrupt places that have misappropriated God’s word symbolized by what Belshazzar did with the vessels of the temple that his father “Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was<\/i> in Jerusalem”, “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread <\/b>eaten<\/i><\/b> in secret is pleasant<\/b>” (Dan 5:2).<\/span><\/p>\nDan 5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was<\/i> in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We go into the churches of this world by God’s design and don’t know this is where the dead are burying the dead, because we ourselves our spiritually dead and not able as yet to discern the true gospel, which takes the miracle of our eyes and ears being open by Christ (Luk 9:60, Mat 13:16).<\/span><\/p>\nLuk 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n
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