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Therefore, for your sake I preach the Good Tidings, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until your righteousness goes forth as brightness, and your salvation as a lamp that burns brightly in this generation. Indeed, I will not restrain, day or night; I will keep not silence and I will give him no rest, till He makes your city, Arab Jerusalem, a praise in all the earth.
Therefore, be a follower of me, even as I am a follower of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, speaking to the heart of Jerusalem. As the Anointing is upon me, Hear this: THIS IS YOUR LIBERTY AND YOUR OPENING OF PRISON; THIS IS YOUR ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, even 5996. For my mission to you is to declare the name of the Lord in Palestine, and his praise in Jerusalem; verily, the acceptable year of the Lord, from Pentecost and forward, the season of the first-fruits of his Spirit, unto all prepared Nazarites, as you are zealous for the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, this is the work of your God!
Was Malachi right? Do you delight in this messenger? Well then hear this Word, The Lord has made me, RIFE THE GREAT, a signet unto you, that you shall now become a level plain, a ready foundation, for the setting of the Headstone. Grace, grace unto you dear Nazarite builders! Remember, not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts. Behold the plummet; the superintendence over the erection of the Temple, in Jerusalem. Behold the Headstone, with shoutings of grace.
Yes, by his grace I am a wise master-builder, supervising the restoration of the temple, in Jerusalem; indeed the Messianic building of the spiritual Temple of the Living God, to now be erected without hands, in Jerusalem.
Dear Nazarite builder, you shall now come forth with all your heart, to open both the New and Old Testaments, and to begin to build the everlasting Temple, in Jerusalem. Yes, upon the foundation of the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament apostles, you shall begin to build. And unto you who earnestly comply, seven days hence, on your personal day of Pentecost, there shall now be the visitations of the Lord in Jerusalem, upon all prepared Palestinian Nazarites.
Yet, know this dear Nazarite brethren: 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 will I save my Palestinian flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
As you study the Torah and the prophets, you have learned that, according to the Law, Nazarites do not have fellowship with the dead. As you study the New Testament, you learn the same truth, that Spiritual Nazarites, according to grace, have only fellowship with the living, because New Testament Nazarites have eternal life, having been born again by the Spirit of God.
And when the women came to the cemetery to prepare Jesus’ body, the tomb was empty. Then behold, two angels stood by them in shining garments, saying, Why seek ye the living among the dead? Another angel said unto them, be not frightened: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified, He is risen, He is not here, He will meet you and the disciples in Galilee (home of the Nazarene), and birthplace of this band of neophyte Nazarites who followed Jesus.
As Jesus was the consummate Nazarite, not according to the Law, but rather the Spirit of election, his Father would not leave his soul in Hell, or suffer the Holy One to see corruption, for a genuine Nazarite is not unequally yoked and thus, has no fellowship with the dead, rather enjoys bountiful fellowship with the living.
Neophytes they were, even slow learners, this band of eleven disciples who survived Jesus’ death and resurrection. They had followed the Radical who had earlier prophesied of the Temple: see ye not this great building, verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. His prophesy was fulfilled some forty years later, when the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem and obliterated the Temple.
This Radical had also prophesied: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Of course, He was speaking of his Body, which is the temple of God under the New Covenant, born again Christian dispensation. And under this New Testament dispensation, the Holy Temple (building) in Jerusalem would now be replaced by his band of Palestinian Nazarites, born again of the Spirit of God.
Thus Jesus, after meeting with them in Galilee, told them to return unto Jerusalem, and to wait for the Promise of the Father… For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost (born again) not many days hence.
The Old Temple and the Levite priesthood that served it were now out; during the Diaspora — Times of the Gentiles — this band of Nazarites would replace Temple worship with Son of God worship, as the Gospel would now be taken to the Gentiles; He thus commissioned them: 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.
Their mission was to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and thus be empowered by God to take the Gospel into the Gentile world, becoming the foundation for Christian/Western Civilization — the 2,000 year march and development unto the ultimate nation of service to the Son of God: Puritan America.
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