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And Zion of Palestine said: All nations compassed about me; but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them, the Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. Yes, the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. I will praise thee, for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. The stone which the builders refused (fifty generations ago) is now become the Headstone of the Corner, this is the Lord’s doing, and marvelous in our eyes.
Know this, your Lord has previously visited your Feast of Tabernacles: After this, during his last year, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. When the Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus’ brothers said to him, You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles that you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world. For even his brothers did not believe in him.
Because of their carnal unbelief, Jesus could not go forth to enjoy spiritual fellowship. Jesus told them, The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. You go to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because for me the right time has not yet come.
Because He preached the truth, He rebuked and reproved the religious leaders, showing them their own evil and hypocrisy. Not until halfway through the feast did Jesus go up to the Temple courts and begin to teach. The Jews were amazed and asked, How did this man get such learning without having studied? Jesus answered, My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God, or whether I speak on my own. He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
Because Jesus enjoyed fellowship with his Father, He would not compromise his testimony to gain fellowship with the leaders. Jesus, still teaching in the Temple courts, cried out, You know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but He who sent me is true. You do not know him, but I know him because I am from him and He sent me. At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.
The religious leaders tried to have him arrested. Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, When the Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man? The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
Therefore, because of the carnal treachery of your forefathers, Jesus prophesied of his ascension to his Father, thus leaving that generation behind in its unbelief. He said, I am with you for only a short time, and then I go to the one who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come. The Jews said to one another, Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
For nearly two thousand years (your fifty-generation Diaspora), this is precisely what has happened; for because your fathers rejected your Messiah, when He did send back the mighty Holy Spirit, it was to empower the few believers from among your fathers (and none of which were of the leadership) to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, to build the Gentile Church, which became the Christian, foundational backbone of Western Civilization.
This, Jesus confirms when He prophesied on the Eighth Day: On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. By this He meant the Holy Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified upon his Throne.
Because of the treachery of the leadership, the time was not yet right for your nation to receive, and enthrone, the promised Messiah. Rather than honoring him, they plotted to have him killed! Because He rebuked their hypocrisy, they hated him! He testified that their religion didn’t truly serve God, and therefore they conspired with the Romans to have him put to death!
Yet, even in his death (which atoned for our sins), He overcame their treachery, by ascending to his Father, until all his enemies became as his footstool. For two thousand years, He has ruled in heaven, blessing the Gentile Church during these Times of the Gentiles.
Yet now, according to his determination to bring moral judgment, and to cut this generation short while there is yet a degree of righteousness, He has begun his judgment against all Gentile transgression and Christian hypocrisy.
Because the fullness of the Gentiles shall now be accomplished, your Jubilee Restoration has arrived! The Lord shall now spiritually bless you with his Holy Spirit, to prepare you for his RETURN, when He shall REIGN in Jerusalem, as KING over all the earth.
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