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10-13-13

FOR TRUE CHRISTIANS, IT IS NOT “IF” YOU DRINK THE WATER, BUT “HOW”

THAT WILL UNALTERABLY DEFINE YOUR FUTURE ETERNAL LIFE

10-13-13 This message may be viewed live streaming video at www.tabernacleofmoses.org commencing today Sunday at 11:00am, and repeated 24/7 for one week; thereafter, the audio and notes without video are archived.

Preface Commentary: The great tribulation period is invoked for the purging (“two parts shall be cut off and die”) of two parts (two thirds) of all Christians from the body of Christ because of their unbelief (“Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return, and depart early from mount Gilead” Judg 7:3). The remaining and believing Christian third part (one third) consisting entirely of the true body of Christ will be tested (“bring them down unto the water, and I [Jehovah] will try them for thee there” Judg 7:4), testing their qualifications for their eternal position in Heaven by investigating not “if” they drank the water of the Holy Spirit (a previously decided issue), but, of huge life-changing significance and pertinent to every seeing eye and listening ear, “how” they drank.

THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH

(THE OVERVIEW)

THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE OF GREAT TRIBULATION

(Zec 13:7-9)  Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

(Zec 13:7-9)  Awake, O sword [“the Word of God” (Eph 6:17; Heb: 4:12) paring and pruning incorrect doctrine], against my shepherd [Heb: pastor], and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts [two thirds of all Christians] therein shall be cut off and die [in the burning fiery furnace] [i.e., nominal, professing but non-believing Christians]; but the third [part, true confessing believing Christians] shall be left therein [Example: the believing Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in “the midst of the burning fiery furnace” Dan 3:23, “upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them” Dan 3:27; and Psa 91]. And I will bring the third part through the fire [of great tribulation; Gideon’s 10,000 (every one of whom who drank the water of the Holy Spirit) who believed God and remained, excluding the 22,000 who did not believe God (did not drink the water of the Holy Spirit) and went back to their homes and eventual death], and will refine them as silver is refined [the metal signifying redemption] [“every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink” Judg 7:5, the 9,700 Israelite warriors], and will try them as gold is tried [the metal signifying the purity of God] [“Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue” Judg 7:5, the 300 Israelite warriors]: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

1.       refine them = Heb: to fuse (metal), i.e. refine:--melt, pure, purge away, try.

2.       try them = Heb: to test (espec. metals); to investigate:--examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

3.       (1 Pet 5:8)  Be sober [Gk: abstain from wine] [be not intoxicated], be vigilant [Gk: keep awake, be watchful]; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour [Gk: to drink down: swallow up]:

THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH

(THE DETAILS)

(Zec 14:1,2)  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil [Heb: booty] shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled [Heb: plundered, spoiled], and the women ravished [Heb: to copulate: lie with]; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

(Zec 14:3-5)  Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle [“The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon” Judg 7:18,20]. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives [Heb: an olive (as yielding illuminating oil)], which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave [Heb: divide] [i.e.. the continental rift running north and south] in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come [the second coming], and all the saints with thee.

THE ACTUAL COMING OF THE LORD

(Zec 14:6-11)  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea [the Dead Sea, the Salt Sea], and half of them toward the hinder sea [the Mediterranean Sea]: in summer and in winter shall it be. And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. And men shall dwell in it [and thus produce families], and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

THE LAST DESTROYING PLAGUE

(NUCLEAR WARFARE)

(Zec 14:12-15)  And this shall be the plague [Heb: slaughter] wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult [Heb: trouble] [i.e., a great tribulation] from [allowed by] the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour [“and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow” Judg 7:22]. And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

(THE FRUIT HARVEST)

(Zec 14:16-21)  And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left [survives] of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain [which causes famine which causes the death of plants and animals, and thus allows for no sacrifices for the LORD]. And if the family of Egypt [the historic land of the unsaved] go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague [nuclear destruction], wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein [unspecified sacrifices]: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite [Heb: peddlers, merchants] in the house of the LORD of hosts.

1.       Commentary: “the feast of tabernacles” = is the seventh and final feast of the religious year, a week-long festival in September-October celebrating ingathering the fruit harvest (symbolically celebrating ingathering us, we are the “fruit”), consisting of “corn and wine” (Deut 16:13; i.e., wheat and grapes, both biblical symbols of us), while living for that festival week in booths or huts made of tree limbs and palm branches, commemorating the forty years of wilderness wandering when the Hebrews lived in temporary shelters, and offering unspecified sacrifices.

2.       Canaanite = Heb: a merchant, a trader; peddler, trafficker (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites [modern day Muslims], who conducted mercantile caravans) /// humiliated.

Amen

A Man of God