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I had a dream that I was at home of my former Pastor. There were a lot of young people there that were college and career age.
There was one guy there who was smoking a cigarette, and I asked him if he wanted to be Delivered from the bondage to nicotine. He said "yes." So I made an announcement to everyone in the room. I said "is there any one here who wants to be delivered from bondage to cigarette smoking"? Several people came forward and we all got into a circle and began to pray. The pastor and his son were also there in the prayer circle.
But our prayer was interrupted for some reason, before we could even get started, and so nobody got delivered.
Then the scene switched. I was going into a grocery store or a Walmart (I think) and I saw the police handcuffing some people out in the parking lot, and putting them into the back of a police van that transports criminals to jail.
I heard someone say "those people are from your Church…" So I went up to one of the police officers and said "excuse me I have to ask, what are these people being arrested for…"?
And he said "for preaching the gospel." I was shocked and I got angry and told the Police Officer that he was wrong for arresting them for that reason. He then took out his handcuffs and began to threaten me with being arrested if I did not stop.
Then I was suddenly back at the Pastor's home and I saw those guys again who had wanted prayer for deliverance of cigarette smoking. I tried again to get everyone in a prayer circle and this time, everyone gathered for prayer.
There was one guy missing that had formerly been in the prayer circle. In the dream his name was Ariel. So I called for this guy, Ariel and he came. But he was wearing a woman's skirt, and so I said to him in a loving way.
"Ariel, don't you know that it says in Deuteronomy that it is an abomination for a man to wear that which pertains to a woman, and for a woman to wear that which pertains to a man…God was talking about a man wearing woman's clothing or a woman wearing man's clothing, but he goes one step further and uses the word PERTAINS to a "woman or a man" which means that we are not to mix genders…." He has to put a difference between male and female with regard to the role of the bride and the bridegroom. When he says that there is neither male nor female, Jew nor Greek, he is talking about our inheritance in Christ being equally distributed. But when it comes to our roles, we must make a distinction between the bride and the bridegroom"!
I continued, and got into a preaching mode, as all gathered around to hear me preach:
"Why does God tell us this in his word? Because he is a Holy God, and he wants us to be Holy as he is Holy…He gave us the law to teach us how to put difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. The reason why the law was given was to show us God's righteous standards. Grace came to give us the power to live up to God's righteous standards without being under the law. But now that the law is written upon our hearts, we are not UNDER it, it is within us! The Law of Moses is Holy. It only brought a curse because of our weak sinful nature. But the cross of Christ broke the curse and now we have the resurrection power living within us, that is to say the Holy Law of Moses now written in fleshy tables of the heart. If we are walking in the spirit, the evidence will be that we will not violate God's Holy law. But if we are walking in the flesh, we will be breaking all of God's laws. But some of you think you are walking in the spirit, but it is a false Holy Spirit. A false Holy Spirit will not put a difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. When Peter had that vision on that rooftop in Acts 10, God told him that he had made unclean animals clean by virtue of the New Covenant. This was a metaphor of the uncircumcised gentiles being now made clean through the New Covenant. But does that mean that God now deems unclean, as clean without change, without repentance? No! He made unclean, clean by virtue of the cross and the blood of Jesus. There has to be repentance from violating God's holy law before we can receive forgiveness and become clean. We are not automatically clean without repentance. Jesus will only sprinkle us with his blood when we come by way of the Tabernacle of Moses. We have to offer up ourselves on the altar of sacrifice and receive his sacrifice for us. We have to cleanse our hands (symbolic of dead works) in the bronze laver and see a reflection of ourselves in the water (the water of the word of God). We have to go to the Holy Place and offer up incense (prayers and worship) we have to eat from the table of showbread (the daily bread of his word, the hidden manna). We have to be lit with the fire like that Menorah that burned with the oil. We have to be like that golden candlestick burning with the fire of the Holy Spirit and always filled with the oil that keeps us burning. And only then can we go into the Holy of Holies with Christ and be sprinkled with his blood! Only then does he sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat for us…We can not approach the Holy of Holies without repentance. Any priest who would go into the Holy of Holies unworthily would die on the spot! Beloved the days are coming like Ananias and Sapphira where people will die on the spot for violating God's Holy Law in the presence of the Lord!
That is why he had to wear bells around the hem of his garment. So that if the bells stopped ringing the other priests would know that he was no longer alive. They would then drag him out from behind the curtain by a rope that was tied to his ankle. We are his royal priesthood, church we need to go by way of the cross, by way of the Tabernacle of Moses. If you see the Tabernacle of Moses from an aerial view, you see that it is in the shape of a cross. There is a false Holy Spirit and a false revival coming, church that will not put difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. But God is saying though you are an unclean people, I want to make you a clean set apart people, holy sanctified ….He says 'come out from among the temple of idols and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you…' He will not automatically make everything clean, we have to go to the cross and deny ourselves daily. We have to go through the pattern of the Tabernacle of Moses. That is the pattern and it will always be the pattern. The false Holy Spirit will never agree with the Law of Moses. But the true Holy Spirit will always agree with the Law of Moses. This is that Mystery of Lawlessness that the Apostle Paul was talking about when he said that it was already at work. This is the spirit of antichrist that will promote a false revival because it promotes a false Holy Spirit that will not agree with the Law of Moses! The Double Portion anointing is that of Moses and Elijah. God will always send Moses before he sends Elijah. We cry out for the spirit of Elijah but we reject the Law of Moses. Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. After this sermon was over, we all got into a prayer circle and began to pray for deliverance.
Interpretation of this Dream and further Revelation I had after the Dream
The double edged sword is that of the Law & Prophets, Spirit & Truth, Wisdom & Revelation. This is the Double Portion anointing that will rest upon the "Two Witnesses" in Revelation 11. They are the "Two Candlesticks" (Smyrna and Philadelphia Church types) and the "Two Olive Trees" (Judah and Ephraim Ezekiel 37 as one stick - [the Sons of Zion in Zech 9:9-10 - Zionsake]) the two divided kingdoms of Israel coming together.
The Two Witnesses are these two groups of people. The Gentile Believers that "overcome" the world and the antichrist. And the Messianic Believers who follow the Law of Moses. These carry the Double Portion anointing of Moses & Elijah typified by Christ's ministry as when he was seen at the Mount of Transfiguration with Moses and Elijah. These "Two Witnesses" carry the anointing of Elijah and Moses and do the same exploits as Moses and Elijah.
In my dream, the church would not receive deliverance until there was persecution. When the police were arresting people for preaching the gospel, then they were open to hearing this message I have to preach to the church.
The young man in the dream had the name "Ariel" because that name in Hebrew means "Lion of God" and it is another name for Jerusalem in Isaiah 29:1. The name Ariel is the name of New Jerusalem, his Holy City which Jesus said he writes the name of his holy city upon those who overcome (Revelation 3:12).
The young man in the dream represents the unrenewed church because he had the name Ariel like that of the Old Jerusalem, but Jesus wants to give him a new name of the New Jerusalem.
The cigarette smoking has to do with burning false incense or false worship and prayers. The origins of cigarette smoking comes from the American Indians who took tobacco and rolled it up in corn husks and used it as a burnt offering to the pagan sun god. They blew smoke signals to the pagan gods with the cigarette smoke. Burning incense is a metaphor of the prayers of the saints and worship: Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. God had exact specifications for how the children of Israel were to make their incense for the Tabernacle: Exodus 30:34-38 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. We see from the above scripture, that God says no incense should be burned for ourselves! This also represents us using music for ourselves or any kind of worship medium for ourselves.
Strange Fire is a counterfeit of the presence of the God in the church and it closely resembles the Holy Spirit. Satan, the master counterfeiter is able to mimic some miracles of God the same way that the Pharaoh's sorcerers were able to mimic some of the miracles that God did through Moses. But God only allows Satan to have limited power. Jesus even warned us in Matthew 24:24 that there would be false Christs and false prophets who would show signs and wonders in order to deceive the elect. God is a Holy God and he will not allow his presence to be mixed with idol worship or pagan rituals.
The prevailing attitude in the church today is one of pride, arrogance, and covetousness. This was the attitude in Jeremiah's day in Israel when they presumed to do whatever they thought in their evil hearts to do. Covetousness and a desire for wealth was the motivation for offering incense to the Queen of Heaven and they counted on cheap grace to keep them in good standing with God; Jeremiah 44:17-18 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. As long as they were sons of Abraham, they saw no conflict with unholy mixture. And such is the attitude today even among the leadership in the church: Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. In Leviticus 10:2 Aaron's sons were devoured by the fire of the Lord and they died, because they were disobedient in offering up strange fire or incense which he had already warned them not to do.
God had already warned the children of Israel not to offer strange incense to him in Exodus 30:9: "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon." In other words, the incense had to be made of the exact spices in which he specified. If they deviated from the formula of incense in which God had set forth, they were committing adultery spiritually before the Lord. The word Adulterate means: to make impure by mixture.
The word strange in Hebrew here in Leviticus 10:1 is zuwr which means: to turn aside, to be a foreigner, strange, profane; to commit adultery.
The Hebrew word for incense is 6999 in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance, qatar which means "the idea of fumigation in a close place thus driving out the occupants; turn into fragrance by fire, (especially by and act of worship) to smoke, offer up burnt sacrifice."
Did you notice what this means? To fumigate the old occupants and drive them out! That means deliverance from demons comes from offering up the right incense to the Lord (Prayers and worship). It has to be made up of the spices that he specifies and the exact proportions that he specifies. There is a divine order to how this incense should be offered up.
In other words, the prayers of the saints cannot be mixed with our own ideas and attitudes. We cannot offer up strange fire that is mixed with wrong attitudes and pagan ideas. Strange fire is a false anointing and a false Holy Spirit that comes from us trying to make up our own composition of incense.
Most in the Church are confusing the Covenant of Sinai with that of Horeb: Galatians 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar (Hagar).
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
2nd Chronicles 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. The Covenant of Sinai was broken. But when Moses went up the second time, and came back, that represented the New Covenant which he made at Horeb! The ark of the Covenant is Christ---the Covenant at Horeb!
The day that Moses came down the second time with the Commandments was a prophetic picture of Christ coming with the Holy Spirit.
The Old Covenant was pre-figured with Moses at Mount Sinai, but the New Covenant was pre-figured with Moses at Horeb!
This day was called "Feast of Weeks" (Leviticus 23) because it was 50 days after the first Passover, after God "parted" the Red Sea.
The second fulfillment of the "Feast of Weeks" happened on the day of Pentecost which was also 50 days after the Resurrection of Christ when he "parted" the curtain in the temple.
The New Covenant is the Covenant made with Moses at Horeb, not Sinai by the writing of the Law of Moses on our hearts! Jeremiah 31:33 "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." The phrase "New Covenant" does not mean "a totally different covenant", it means "renewed covenant." Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah The Hebrew word here for "new" is 2319 in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance and it means "new, fresh" but it comes from the root word 2318 which is chadash which means "to rebuild, renew, repair."
Aha! So Yeshua came to "rebuild, renew and repair" the Covenant made at Horeb, NOT Replace it!
Why was a "New" Covenant required? Because the old one was BROKEN: Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD Notice that God is talking about the Covenant that the children of Israel broke when they first left Egypt at Sinai! But the New Covenant that he established at Horeb with Moses did not get broken. Christ fully revealed it and "confirmed" it with his own blood (Daniel 9:27, he shall confirm the covenant).
The Old Covenant was "broken" like Yeshua's body was "broken" on the cross. But what happened to his body? It was "resurrected, renewed, repaired" so if his body was broken just like that Old Covenant was "broken" so was the "Renewed Covenant" a "rebuilding, repairing, renewing, resurrecting" of the Old Covenant!
The "Renewed Covenant" can be seen in the fact that the first time Moses came down from the mountain, he found the children of Israel worshipping Yehovah in the form of a golden calf. So he "broke" the stone tablets and made them eat the gold which brought a "curse."
Then he went back up again to the mountain (symbolic of Yeshua's ascension into heaven), and then he came back with what? A "Renewed" set of commandments symbolic of the Holy Spirit writing them on our hearts! Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people."
Hebrews 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." Sinai in Hebrew is 5514, in the Strong's Concordance ciynay "a mountain in Arabia."
The slave woman Hagar had a son that was born of Abraham named Ishmael who went to Arabia. The Covenant of Sinai was the Covenant of Bondage.
Moses went back up the second time to get the commandments and this time, he came back down and established a New Covenant with the children of Israel at Horeb.
Horeb in Hebrew is 2722 in the Strong's Concordance, chareb which means "the Sinaitic Mountains." It comes from the root 2217 to parch to desolate, to destroy, lay waste.
This is symbolic of the cross where our sin was destroyed. This covenant at Horeb represents the cross, the New Covenant!
We have to follow the pattern of "Law & Prophets" in order to make up the composition of incense that pleases Yehovah God. We have to make sure that both elements exist. Both of these elements are throughout the Bible:
Spirit & Truth
Law & Prophets
Wisdom & Revelation
Elijah & Moses Anointing
The Double Portion
The Two-Edged Sword
Old Covenant & New Covenant
The Crucifixion & The Resurrection
The Blood & The Water (that came from his side)
Justification & Sanctification (1st Peter 1 the elect have both)
Jew & Gentile
Israel & The Church
Faith & Works of the Spirit (James 2, both makeup Grace)
Wise as a Serpent (Law) & Gentle as a Dove (Spirit) We cannot have one without the other. The Letter of the Law kills if it is administered without the Covenant of Grace. The Spirit gives Life and will always agree with the Law of Moses. That is why the Bible refers to it as "The Law of the Spirit of Life."
The Law of Moses gives us the template, but the Holy Spirit gives us the fulfillment!
All Law with no Spirit brings a rigid, dry legalistic attitude, and leads to death. All Spirit with no Law brings with it the danger of a Strange Fire and counterfeit.
The Cross of Christ & The New Covenant Pre-Figured with The Tabernacle of Moses at Horeb after Mount Sinai
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The The Altar of Sacrifice: Represents the sacrifice of Christ on the cross as the Lamb of God. Here we offer up ourselves to him as a living sacrifice and choose to "deny ourselves and take up our cross daily." -
The Bronze Laver: Here the Priest would wash his hands (symbolic of works). We "work" with our hands and so the washing of our hands has to do with repentance from our dead works. The laver had water in it and so the priest would see a reflection of himself in the water. This is a where we ask the Holy Spirit to "search" our hearts and show us the hidden sins of the heart. We receive cleansing from the old nature by the "washing of water by the word." (Ephesians 5:26) -
The Table of Showbread: This is where we eat the showbread, the daily bread of the hidden manna, the word of God. Jesus said "man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God." Jesus is the bread from heaven. He is the bread of life. (John 6:33-48) We eat his flesh metaphorically as we live on his daily word. -
The Altar of Incense: This represents the prayers of the saints and worship. (Revelation 8:3-4) We must develop a life of prayer and intimacy with him daily. -
The Menorah: Jesus likened the Seven Churches to Seven golden candlesticks. The Menorah could not stay lit without olive oil. We must be like those five wise virgins (Matthew 25:2) who kept their oil supply full at all times. We must be a "light" in a dark world. Jesus said that we are to be the "light of the world" (Matthew 5:14) as he is also the "light of the world." (John 8:12) -
The Ark of the Covenant: This was place where the Holy Spirit dwelled. In that ark were the Ten Commandments. This is the place where God established the New Covenant with Moses at Horeb and the children of Israel. The Old Covenant established on Mount Sinai was broken. -
The Holy of Holies: This is where the priest would go and sprinkle the blood of the Lamb on the Mercy seat. Jesus is our high priest after the order of Melchisidec and he sprinkles his own blood on that mercy seat for us. (Hebrews 9:19-21, 10:22). You will notice that the Tabernacle is in the shape of a cross.
We must come by way of the cross, the Tabernacle into the Holy of Holies. There are no shortcuts. If we attempt to go into the Holy of Holies without this pattern we will die. That is why God protects us from being able to come into his presence lightly. 
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