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By Michael Didier

 

 

The Journey Begins

Jesus spoke in John chapter 3 about being born of “the spirit,” in order to “see” and “enter" " the kingdom of god.”1 It, being “born again” was the beginning (the seeing, the entering), not the end; the start of a new life, a new adventure in a new kingdom. The Father Himself describes this new birth clearly through His prophet Ezekiel when He says, “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” 2 When we are born again we receive the same new spirit and that gives all the Father’s people, one heart.

Ezekiel again, speaking for the Father says, “And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are all around you.”3 Paul the apostle wrote, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”4 Let us thank our Father in heaven and our great High Priest, that Paul continues later in Romans saying, “but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”5  Compare these last two quotes by Paul with what the Father again says through Ezekiel. “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right ... [if he] Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, faithfully; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.” 6

Ezekiel continues, “But if the wicked (man) will turn (repent) from all his sins (stops disobeying and starts obeying) that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has committed, shall be remembered against him: Because of the righteousness that he has done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD: and not that he should turn from his ways, and live?”7

Being “born again” is how every man and women of God, begin their journey in the Father’s kingdom. But what does the kingdom of this “royal priesthood,” this “holy nation,” this “peculiar people”8 look? What are its geographical boundaries? Who are its people? What are its laws?

Where is the kingdom?

Jesus taught the good news of the kingdom wherever He went. From the very first day after He came out of the wilderness into Galilee; He came “preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.”9 When He taught us to pray, He said, “... Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”10 Jesus spoke so much about the kingdom of God , is it any wonder the Pharisees had to ask Him when would this kingdom come? Yahshua answered them saying, “The kingdom of God comes not with observation (It is invisible! You can not see it in the natural, only with spiritual eyes!): Neither shall they say, Look here! or, look there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”11  We know the kingdom is within us, when we want to obey Him. Jesus told Nicodemus, "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you can not tell from where it come, and to where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."12 

The kingdom is invisible, just like the wind; but even the wind gives evidence, gives substance of its effect on the world. The Father’s people, if they are His, give or rather display the evidence, the substance of His kingdom residing within them by the fruits which they bear. The world can not see the kingdom but they, like the wind, can see the evidence of the kingdom in actions of His people.

We began our journey by repentance, by turning. John spoke to the Pharisees and Sadducees and said to them. “O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bring fruits worthy of repentance.”13

Paul’s great premise in Romans is put this way. “For in it (the good news that Christ proclaimed about the kingdom of God) is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just (we are made that way by grace14) shall live by faith.”15 As we saw earlier, the Father said the same thing. He does not change.16 “But if a man be just (we were made that way by grace in times past also), and do that which is lawful and right,... [if he] has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, faithfully; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.”17 Do not these last verses sound like “the just” not only start by faith but also continue in faith, living from “faith to faith”? The righteousness of God, the correct way for His people are to live, is only revealed when His people display them for others to see. We are the light of the world when we obey Him.

Hebrews says, “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”18 Paul is using repetition to make his point. Faith is tangible! Faith is the substance, the evidence of an invisible kingdom within His people, the things hoped for and but not seen. His statutes describe how His people are to conduct themselves concerning loans, credit, interest, sexual behavior, planting a field, resting a field, eating, dressing, holy days or celebrations and a host of other commandments, statutes and judgments which He says are “for our good?”19 Would there be any evidence or substance to convict us of being one from His kingdom? Do we even know what His ways are?

Hebrews 11 is considered the “faith” chapter by many Christians and the saints listed there are the “hall of famers.” “These all died in faith.”20 They died in faith giving evidence and substance of an invisible kingdom. Faith and obedience can not be separated. Faith is action.

Able offered a more acceptable sacrifice.21 Noah, being divinely warned of thing not yet seen, prepared an ark.22 Abraham obeyed and went out not knowing where He was going.23 He dwelt in the land of Canaan as if in a strange country, an invisible kingdom.24 He looked for a city which has foundation whose builder and maker is God25 and whose cornerstone is the word of God, the word made flesh, elect, precious.26 All these actions were the result of an unseen hope, an invisible kingdom. Let's continue in the description, of these examples, of the faith we must exhibit if we are to please our heavenly Father.

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises (no one has yet27), but having seen them afar off.”28 Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”29 They saw something that most people do not see and this scripture in Hebrews says that they  “were persuaded of them, and embraced them,” they acted on them, kept them, gave evidence of them, showed substance of them. What is “them?” The commandments, statutes, judgments and ordinances of an invisible kingdom. The promise we have is that there is “great reward” for obedience.30 These dear saints, and examples to us, "confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country (an invisible kingdom). And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they came out (Ur. Egypt, Babylon, Rome and every kingdom and nation on the earth) they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, an heavenly (country): therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared a city for them.”31

Those who say they have faith

The word often talks about those who say that they are Yahshua’s people but do not do as He does. Jesus quoted Isaiah saying, “This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”32 Mark continues this same thought. “For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, [such] as the washing of pots and cups (the keeping of Christmas and Easter - O ouch!): and many other such things you do. And he said unto them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.”33 Read what the Father says about the righteous man who “turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done, shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty (that is the things he should have done but did not) and the sins which he has committed (that is the things he did that he should not have done), because of them he shall surely die.”34 Six verses later He is still speaking of His self- righteous people saying, “therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel , every man according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, which you have committed; and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn, and live .”36 The just shall live by faith. The faithful obey Him, the unfaithful do not. He says, “if you love me, keep my commandments.”37 We obey because we love Him not to make ourselves righteous.  

Jesus spoke the same message as His Father when He addressed the people on the “mount” where He gave His “sermon.” He said, “Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: But strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few will find it.”38 We, the faithful, are to take “the narrow way,” “the old Paths,”39 “His ways,”40 “the paths that they have not known,”41 and “the highway of holiness.”42

God’s people must learn to walk, to live by faith, observing with fear all of His statutes and His judgments, His ways. Jesus exhorted us to “take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”43 The world has a great and burdensome yoke which is always changing. The number of its laws, statutes, ordinances are inestimable. Building a house on them is to build on a very shaky foundation which only a “foolish man”44 would do. Jesus said, “Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”45 Our Father only has 613 commandments, statutes, judgments and ordinances which work for all the people of the earth. For “The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”46  

The Unfaithful Bride

The Father speaks to us, the bride of Christ, when he says, “Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD. A voice was heard upon the desolate heights, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel : for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.47 Several verses latter His people reply. “We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”48 If you can not say “Amen,” to this sentiment then say “O me!” This is what the Father describe as a “broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart.”49 Yahovah, the King of kings says, “If my people, which are called by my name,

shall humble themselves, (come to Him with a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart)

and pray,

and seek my face, (with all their heart, soul and strength)

and turn from their wicked ways; (and become obedient to His ways)

then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”50

 We read in Proverbs, “He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination.”51 Strong words for the man or woman who take the name of the LORD in vain by saying  they are His but refuse to obey Him. We must “turn, and live.”52

Where did we learn this unfaithfulness?

How have we, the Father’s people arrived at a point where we teach “for doctrines the commandments of men”53 and decided His laws are not necessary for “modern men” like ourselves? Do we know more about what is “for our good”54 than our heavenly Father? Is this disobedience, this lack of faith in Him a new phenomenon? Or, is this why the Father has always called His people a “stiffnecked people?”55

Isaiah says that “my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge.”56 Hosea writes, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.”57 In the last days men will come saying, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself (will he elect God’s for himself), and they are no gods?” 58 “Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.”59

When the Father’s people’s hearts depart from Him and trust in the covenants they make with the gentiles, the heathen, to serve their gods and obey their laws, this is what the Father calls harlotry. His precious bride has gone to men and not trusted in Him. Why do His people do this? We just read it was do to lack of knowledge, ignorance of His laws and His ways. This detestable state of affairs is do mainly to the teachers we have selected. “For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.”60 And again, “O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.”61 “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow them that are entering to go in. ... Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness (not obeying the Father’s ways)”62 “Her (Israel’s) priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: have not distinguished between the holy and the unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them (His people).” 63

His people have been led astray! The Father describes this “carrying away,”64 this “destroying,”65 this “treachery”66 like this. You, my people “were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment; You are an adulterous wife who takes strangers instead of her husband! Men make payments to all harlots, but you made your payment to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.”67 We hire attorneys to create our religious organizations to incorporate His precious bride into the body of the state, the heathen. We hire these same attorneys to dissolve our marriages, to be sure that we are clean harlots.

He continues, “I will judge you, as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; and I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy. ... I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.”68

In March, 1775 Patrick Henry witnessed a pastor who was scourged to death because he (the pastor), like twelve other pastors in that city, who would not take a license. There is an oxymoron for you, a “licensed pastor.” Here is another, “religious corporation.” Because our churches are incorporated our pastors must be licensed, because they are licensed, they must marry you under the authority of the state with a marriage license. How did we ever get married before there was a state? O how far we have fallen! Because of the marriage license the couple unknowingly marries the state as well, and inadvertently, gives the state authority over their marriage and their dear little ones, who can now be taken away at the whim of the state or because of a false witness stating what they think they know. This dear pastor that was scourged to death, he died rather than take a license. I have heard pastors brag about being elected to their denominations licensing committee. “What thinkest you Simon?”69  Father, forgive us for we know not what we do.

“While they (the leaders of the people) promise them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, by him also is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, and the latter end is worse with them than the beginning (the “seeing,” the “entering” into the kingdom). For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness (the way His people are to live), than having known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them (did we even receive them?). But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”70

Rough Beginnings

When we, the Father’s people, repent and believe and take Jesus as our Lord and Savior; What are we repenting of? Drinking, smoking, watching “R” rated movies? Building without a permit or not licensing our dog?

Remember what “the LORD” said through Ezekiel? “But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”71 The third commandment is: “You shalt not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.”72  The Father is not talking about “swearing.” He is saying that if we are going to confess Him as our Lord to others, He had better be the Lord. This lordship is demonstrated in His servants by “keeping the statutes” of His invisible kingdom and doing what is “lawful and right” or He “will not hold us guiltless.”

We repented of not “keeping all His statutes and doing what was lawful and right.” No big surprise that we sinned this way, we did not even know what His statutes, His ways, were. The real problem is that we, His people, some who (myself included) have been in “the faith” for many years, even decades, still do not know His ways. We do not know them, do them or teach them, never did! Any wonder why we are as those who, like a dog, have returned to their vomit?73

Jesus said these words when speaking about the law and the prophets. “Whosoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”74

What do we teach new believers? We are told by Peter that newborn babes should desire the sincere, pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby.75 Isaiah wrote, “Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand the message? Those just weaned from the milk, and those just drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”76 Where do we begin? The writer of Hebrews says, “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need of milk, and not solid food.”77 We must start with the oracles of God, His words on how His people are to conduct their lives. Otherwise, why bother repenting? Did we mean it of not? Have new believers been taught His ways, His Torah, His instructions on how the people of the earth, whom he has created, are to live if they are to be called His people and He is to be called their God? Sadly, the answer is an overwhelming NO for practically everyone who has come into His kingdom in the last 1900 years.

What do we teach new believers? We teach that the law of Moses and the prophets are not for today. We teach new holy days, which we call holidays; days the Father never commanded, like Christmas  and Easter, which we added to His word. A big taboo! We have told these new believer that Sunday is the new Sabbath. But we are simply rebellious children. We were commanded in Leviticus 23 to observe His  feasts of Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and all His Sabbaths. He says, they “shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.”78 That is a very long time and we are not there yet.

Zachariah speaks of the keeping of feast of Tabernacles during the reign of Christ. “And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left 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.”79 He continues, saying that if the “families or the earth”80 do not come up to keep the feast they will not get rain. And if they still do not come up they will be given plagues. Does not this feast sound pretty important to the King? Do we teach it? Where does it say on the 25th day of a heathen calendar that we are to celebrate anything?

But we are commanded to celebrate the feast of Trumpets,81 otherwise known as the “feast in which no one knows the day or the hour.” This feast is celebrated on the first day of the month of Tishri. During the feast the shofar (the rams horn) is blown, the last time is called “the last great trump”. Each year when it is blown we look for Jesus’ return. Paul writes, “Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or or regarding a festival, or a new moon, or Sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things to come.. .”82 These “shadows” Leviticus calls “holy convocations” (or rehearsals). These are rehearsals for something that has already been fulfilled in the past or something that will be fulfilled in the future or both. Each year at the Passover God’s people would say, “maybe this is the year Messiah will come.” And one year He did come! Those faithful, who were looking for Him did recognize Him for who He was, and those who were not, did not. In the same way, at the feast of Trumpets each year we say “maybe this is the year the messiah will come, back!” Jesus says, “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour which the Son of man is coming.”83 “But of the times and the seasons  brethren," Paul writes, "you have no need that I write unto you (why, because they kept the feasts). For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they (the heathen) shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pain upon a pregnant woman; and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this day should overtake you as a thief.”84 Yahshua will come as a thief in the night to the unfaithful servant, not the faithful man who keeps His “holy convocations”85 and is watching for the Master’s return.

Unfortunately, most will not be watching. But the newborn babes who have been taught the statutes and judgments of “the LORD” will know and be warned and receive a great reward.86 Faithfulness has got to begin with us that teach these precious newborn babes to be faithful to the father’s oracles. Peter says, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.”87 “This is he (Moses), who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us: Whom our fathers (and most of us) would not obey, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, ...”88 Faithfulness has got to begin with us that teach these precious newborn babes to be faithful to the father’s oracles.

We must learn, and do, and teach His “ways” if we are to be “great” and faithful servants in His Kingdom. His gate is “strait” and His way is “narrow” that leads to life and few there are that find it. Let us be a “peculiar people,” following the statutes of an invisible kingdom faithfully by showing the substance, the evidence of what we hope for. Faithfully, it is the only way the just can live in order to remain just.

“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world - our faith.”89

            1 John 3:3-5

            2 Ezekiel 11:19-20

            3 Ezekiel 11:12

            4 Romans 3:23

            5 Romans 6:23

            6 Ezekiel 18:4-5,9

            7 Ezekiel 18:21-23

            8 1 Peter 2:9

            9 Mark 1:14-15

            10 Matthew 6:9-10

            11 Luke 17:20-21

            12 John 3:8

            13 Matthew 3:7-8

            14 Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”

            15 Romans 1:17-18

            16 Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not”

            17 Ezekiel 18:5,9

            18 Hebrews 11:1

            19 Deuteronomy 10:13

            20 Hebrews 11:13

            21 Genesis 4:3-10, Hebrews 11:4

            22 Genesis 6:13-22, Hebrews 11:7

            23 Genesis 12:1-5, Hebrews 11:8

            24 Genesis 12:8, Hebrews 11:9

            25 Hebrew 11:10

            26 Isaiah 28:16, 2 Peter 2:6

            27 Hebrews 10:36-38 “For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith”

            28 Hebrews 11:13

            29 John 3:3

            30 Hebrews 10:35-36 “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.”

 

              Psalms 19:11 “Moreover by them (commandments, statutes, judgments and ordinances) l is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.”

            31 Hebrews 11:13-16

            32 Matthew 15:8-9

            33 Mark 7:8-9

            34 Ezekiel 18:24

            35 Ezekiel 18:24

            36  Ezekiel 18:30-32

            37John 14:15

            38 Matthew 7:13-14

            39 Jeremiah 6:16 “Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein”

            40 Isaiah 2:3 “And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”

            41 Isaiah 42:16 “And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.”

            42 Isaiah 35:8 “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”

            43 Matthew 11:29-30

            44 Matthew 7:26

            45 Matthew 7:24-25

            46 Psalms 24:1

            47 Jeremiah 3:20-22

            48 Jeremiah 3:25

            49 Psalm 51:16-17 “For you desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you wilt not despise”

            50 II Chronicles 7:14

            51  Proverbs 28:9-10

            52 Ezekiel 18:32

            53 Mark 7:7

            54 Deuteronomy 10:13 “To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?”

            55 Exodus 34:9

            56 Isaiah 5:13

            57 Hosea 4:6-7

            58 Jeremiah 16:19-20

            59 Jeremiah 17:5

            60 Isaiah 9:16

            61 Isaiah 3:12

            62 Matthew 23:15, 28

            63 Ezekiel 22:26

            64 Isaiah 5:13

            65 Hosea 4:2

            66 Jeremiah 3:2

            67 Ezekiel 16:31-33

            68 Ezekiel 16:38, 41

            69 Matthew 17:25

            70 2 Peter 2:19-22

            71 Ezekiel 18:21

            72 Exodus 20:7

            73 2 Peter 2:22

            74 Matthew 5:19

            75 1 Peter 2:2-3 “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”

            76 Isaiah 28:9-10

            77 Hebrews 5:12

            78 Leviticus 23:14,21,31

            79 Zachariah 14:16

            80 Zachariah 14:167-19 “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. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, 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.”

                81 Leviticus 23:24 “Speak unto the children of Israel , saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.”

            82 Colossians 2:16-17

            83 Matthew 25:13

            84 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4

            85 Luke 12:37-40 “Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when you think not.”

            86 Psalms 19:11 “Moreover by them (the law, testimonies, statutes, commandments and judgments) is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.”

            87 1 Peter 4:11

            88 Acts 7:38-39

            89 1 John 5:2-4