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       Ephesians
      “Equipping The Saints”
      Part Three A

Are we playing Hide & Seek with the Lord?
“Here I Come, Ready or Not!”

Dear Children of the Most High God,
With the “New World Order,” practically sitting on our laps” trying
to “Ally With Islam” and “Mother Babylon,” our God is fulfilling His
prophetic Word … and we are not going to change His mind; but we
must agree with Him, and put on the whole armor of God that we
may be able to stand against the strategies of the Devil! Also, we
must realize that Laodicea Christians are in Babylon’s mammon of
economic, materialistic “idolatry,” and we are not equipped for the
battle, the warfare against the Satanic deceiving hosts of demons
circling round about us, even at our side whispering negative and
positive thoughts contrary to the Mind of Christ. We have not
learned how to war against the principalities and powers, the rulers
of darkness in heavenly places with the Sword of the Spirit, the
Word of God; therefore, there will be, and is already, a Great Falling
Away into this Babylonian System` of government, a worldwide
system of transition of power! Even Christians are calling “darkness
… light.” There is no extra Oil in our lamps… So, what do the
Scriptures prophesy about Messiah’s Body, His people Israel, during
this time of the Beast’s ascendancy and final rule in the Middle East
and it’s believing for World Dominance? Are we going to be
ruptured out of this time of testing and tribulation? Many teachers
teach that the “Church” will be ruptured out! Is the Great Tribulation
Jacob’s trouble only? Certainly before God’s wrath His Saints are
resurrected! Speaking to Christians Paul writes: “For if God did not
spare the natural branches (Israel), He may not spare you either.
Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God; on those who
fell, severity; but toward you goodness, if you continue in His
goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off,” Romans 11:21-22.
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O Children, the Bridegroom is not betrothed to a building! Here in
America many mega-charismatic-churches are falling, filing
bankruptcy, or the deputies of banks are foreclosing, even serving
papers in the middle of a Service, closing its doors… Why does God
allow this? because of un-repented sin in leadership, pride, greed, an’
idolatry! If God allowed Jerusalem to burn and the Temple, He will
also write “Ichabod” on the doors of churches where there is no
repentance for compromising, in bed with the World! God says,
“Here I come, ready or not!”

What Shall We Do, Lord Yeshua, Jesus, Tower of The Flock,
SheepFold of God?

  First and foremost we must “keep our virginity” and not be defiled
with harlotry; We must follow the Lamb wherever He goes … being
the redeemed as we are, the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.
No lie must be found in our mouth and no fault must be found in us,
that is, to walk blameless before Him in love and faith believing …
all these commands are given to the “First-fruits Saints” who have
“Messiah’s name and His Father’s name” engraved in/on their
foreheads, Revelation 14:1-5; and this, Children, is the reason they
are standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion in Heaven before the
Throne, they have overcome! Revelation 20:1-6. Study the letters to
the churches Rev 1-4.
  There are three angels, each with a different message, in the midst
of heaven(s); the first Angel proclaims the everlasting Gospel to the
people who dwell on earth, … to every nation, tribe, tongue, and
people, saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, for
the hour of His judgment has come, worship Him who made the
heavens and the earth, the sea and springs of water.” And then
another Angel followed saying, “Babylon is fallen, that great city,
because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication.” What time in our history is this prophecy to be
fulfilled, Children? The time of the Beast’s ascendancy and reign in
the last of the last days! “Here I Come, Ready or Not!” Listen to the
third Angel who followed immediately, saying,
“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark
(for the purpose of “buying and selling”) on his forehead or hand.
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  O Dear Children, listen, these are the saints who are virgins (5 of
the ten have the extra oil in their lamps in order to persevere to the
end, said Jesus Mt 25:1); these are the “first-fruits resurrection of all
the overcomers,” Rev 20:4-6. “… this is why there must be
perseverance in the saints who keep the commandments of God and
faith in Yeshua, Jesus,” Rev 14:12, It is the Beast and the ten
horned kings who are of one mind who make war with the Lamb,
and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King
of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and
faithful,” Rev 18:11-14.

  Babylon is about to fall! Does it fall, and with it, all “the cities of
the world collapse” before the Beast to the world is revealed,
according to Paul in his second letter to the Thessalonians? What has
she become
“But a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and
a cage for every unclean and hated bird!” (Is this not the condition
of our cities and world leaders today)? “All kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have
become rich through the abundance of her luxury! …those who have
lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they
see the smoke of her burning, standing in a distance for fear of her
torment, saying ‘Alas, alas, that great city, that mighty city
Babylon…for in one hour (a short time) her judgment has come.
And the merchants will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys
their merchandise anymore:” … then the Angel names all the things
that our souls longed (idolized, coveted) for, they have gone from
you (us too), and all the things which are rich and splendid have
been lost to you and you shall find them NO MORE!” … “She was
clothed in fine linen, purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and
precious stones (gems) and pearls! Every shipmaster, all who travel
by ship, sailors, and so many as trade on the sea, stood at a
distance…” COMMERCE, CREDIT, BUYING AND SELLING
GONE!” The Global Financial System’s Economy has gone Belly-
Up! Who has overthrown her, Children, and for what purpose?
Revelation18:1-20.

  But what is so terribly sad is, all the Christians buying into this
Babylonian System of fornication, greed and idolatry; making the
Devil’s trendy styles and fashions their very own, but, what’s even
worse, preaching it to others also, causing them to fall! Woe, woe,
woe, says the Lord, “Here I Come, Ready or Not!”
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WHAT OR WHO IS BABYLON?
   In the OT, Babylon was a center of idolatry, the occult, and
immorality, which is restored in today’s society! In the NT, it is
sometimes a cryptic name for Rome (see Rev 18:9-10; 1 Pet 5:13).
Historically, Babylon is a symbol of the satanic system of
government relating to worshiping man, false gods, homosexuality
and the control of mammon’s power. It had it’s origin in the ancient
land of Babylonia (Chaldees / Shimar), during Nimrod’s kingdom &
Tower of Babel, and after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, (See
Book of Daniel) it then rose to power as the Babylonia Empire
spanning from about 2300 BC to 325 BC. Some believe Iraqi’s
Babylon just may be restored, and that the United Nations will move
their headquarters there from New York City to Iraq; after all, the
setting of the Book of Revelation is in the Middle East, (which, by
the way, God predicted no Arab will ever pitch his tent there ever
again), we find also the setting of the Euphrates River, Jerusalem
and Megiddo.

   In fact, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
is pouring millions of dollars into Ancient Babylon and several
sending other millions, with privacy help, into several historical sites
in Iraq hoping to turn Babylon into a thriving center of tourism and
“commerce,” MSNBC. The word Babylon used Biblically for us
today is
a Monetary System of World-Banking (commerce, credit, buying &
selling), and everything that is immoral and decadent; and in its final
days one of the seven heads on the Dragon rising out of the
prophesied Great ‘Mediterranean’ Sea   … will reign as the eighth
of the seven heads, becoming the final Diademed King. See Rev 17;
18; Is 13.

   Babylon appears to move her headquarters where the different
rulers or kings of earth are rising to power! She, however, has
caused all the kings of the earth to drink of her wine! But after
World War 11 the American dollar found it’s supremacy with
America’s rise to the number one world power and she has been
seated in America for some time now, but she will move her seat to
ride the composite beast of the lion, the bear, the leopard with seven
heads and ten kings. At the G-20 Summit November 16, 2008, held
in Washington DC, the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy,
pushed for “abandonment of the dollar” as World Reserve Currency.
The US dollar can no longer be the sole world currency, as it was at
the end of WW 11. Many believe it is the end of
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America’s capitalism! Europeans calls it “Anglo-Saxon” style
economics and she will lose her superpower status in the global
financial system. End Quote.

   However, the Economic System of Babylon is going to fall, and
because the plagues will be so great, “we must come out of her,”
commanded the Lord Jesus. We must join the Angel sent by God in
presenting the gospel of Truth to those who live on the earth, that is
to every nation, race, language and tribe: “Fear God and glorify Him,
because the time has come for Him to sit in judgment; worship the
maker of heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water.”

   If we read this portion of Scripture in context, the followers of the
beast are branded with his name and number, 13:16-17, and are
contrasted with the followers of the Lamb marked with His Name
and the Name of His Father on/in their foreheads, Revelation 7 seq.
This is the “remnant” of the New Covenant Israel, among whom,
are those God has reassembled for the Messianic restoration, back
from exile, this Seedling of Messiah is the new and sanctified Israel
all. Yahweh’s Seedling: “That day, Yahweh’s seedling will turn to
beauty and glory,
what the earth brings forth will turn to the pride and ornament of
Israel’s survivors,” Isaiah 4:1, the “Seedling Messiah Yeshua,” is the
re-sprouting, the re-budding of Israeli Olive branches in the soil of
Palestine! Selah!

   Children, have we gone back to needing milk? Is meat too strong
for us? What on earth are Bible Seminaries teaching? Why must we
go outside the “Church” to learn about the hidden mysteries, the
great wisdom of God? Paul teaches the Body of Messiah is the
fullness of Him! He has opened to the Gentiles the same salvation
promised to Israel. Are we actually “doing” what the Lord
commanded us to do? Not just a few of His people, but all of us.
You know … “we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings ‘of’
heaven ‘in’ Christ Jesus, already!” Ephesians 1:1-4.

WHAT DOES THE WORD IN AND OF MEAN?
IN – prep.: within, inside of; indicating a present relation to time, a
person, a place, or condition; adverb: inside, closely, with privilege or
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possession; immediately, in-so-far-as, considering that; a word, e.g.
with, by, for, used before a noun or pronoun to show the relation to
some other word in the sentence … (including all that is IN; for we
Christians, all that is IN HIM, all that He has possession of)! OF –
prep.: belonging to; from; proceeding from; relating to; concerning.
(e.g. for those in Messiah, “the keys of the kingdom of heaven” are
in the possession of the saints … for they are His to give sense He is
King of the Universe and has given the keys to His Body, through
Peter … so that “the gates of hell cannot prevail against the called
out ones; those called according to His purpose to share His glory,”
Matthew 16:13-20; Romans 8:28-30.

   However Children, are we using these keys as an individual, small
cell groups, and/or collectively as the Body of Messiah? Are we
obeying His words? Do we in reality believe what Jesus himself has
said, or do we believe what the Media or some other teaching that
has or is crowding our minds? Is the Lord by the Spirit dwelling
within us or not, 24/7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)? You see,
we, including myself, do not practice this truth, nor do we believe it
most of the time; and that
is because our minds are not always, on “the things which are
above… where Christ sits enthroned at God’s right hand.”
“Here I Come, Ready or Not!”

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
     Everything depends on our believing who Yeshua, Jesus the
Messiah really is! When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea
Philippi He put this question to His disciples, “Who do people say
the Son of man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist,
some say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” “But
you,” asked Jesus, “Who do you say I am?” (Never mind the
world, what it thinks! “But you, who am I?”) Then Simon Peter
spoke up and said, “You are the Messiah, Christ, the Son of the
Living God.” Jesus replied, “Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed
man!”(Why?) “Because it was no human agency that revealed this
to you, but My Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are
Peter (petra) and on this rock (of confession revealed by the Father),
I will build My community, and the gates of the underworld (Hell
/Hades) can never overpower it (prevail against it).” (Why not?)
Because, “I will give you the keys (authorities) of the kingdom of
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Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven:
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven,” Matthew 16:
13-20.

   “In truth I tell you,” said Jesus, whatever you bind on earth will
be bond in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
heaven. In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to
ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by My Father in heaven.
For where two or three meet (are gathered) in My name, I Am there
among them,” Matthew 18:18-20. Please notice: The action of
asking, proclaiming, or commanding, IN His name, must begin on
earth BEFORE it is carried out or permitted in heaven. (The laws of
the kingdom).

   For example, Moses was directed (told) by Yahweh God what he
should say or proclaim to Pharaoh before the angels of heaven, as
God’s right hand, performed the miracles of binding or loosing
according to what Moses “said first!” Children, we must use these
keys! We must be equipped, why? For the work of the ministry,
which you and I are to do … not just the Pastors! Well, who is going
to equip us? you ask. Well, the apostles, prophets, pastors, and
teachers who have been equipped themselves through experience
and studying God’s Word, by the
Anointing within! just like Jesus taught His disciples to teach others
also…and made sure of it by giving the same Holy Spirit that
enabled Him to work the works of God! Selah!

WHAT DO THE WORDS BINDING & LOOSING MEAN?
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven.”

“TO BIND” The word actually means to put into bounds, to be tied
up. To yoke, to harness or join together. It can also mean to forbid,
refuse, not allow, shut the door or bring into subjection.

“TO LOOSE” means to break up, dissolve or melt away. It can also
mean to permit, open or grant.

    Children these are the authoritative keys we have been given…
not TO the kingdom but OF the kingdom, that is, belonging to (there
is a great difference in to & of), so that the gates of Hell cannot
prevail

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against us…these words are the Sword of the Spirit, they are Words
of Christ Jesus, as much as, “Go into all the world,” are!

Binding & Loosing are Hebrew idioms
For exercising the Lord’s Power & Authority!

   The Hosts of Heaven perform the permitting and the forbidding
of the words of our mouth(s) many, many times. They excel in
strength doing this because they are obeying the Lord’s commands!
(See Hebrews 1& 2. God uses our prayers, our words, to war
against, bind or loose, the satanic host of angels in heavenly places!
This is what Paul is teaching us in Ephesians 6, we must put on the
same armor that Jesus Himself wore, and “possess” these very
same KEYS! If the keys used by Jesus prevailed over Satan… they
certainly can prevail for us. Jesus is always considered to be our
example! What He did was simply bind and loose … good and bad,
He used these keys in prophesying, Saints! The “Two Witnesses”
are granted these keys as were Moses and Elijah. The disciples used
these keys, not just Peter, The Catholic Church teaches the wrong
doctrine regarding Peter and the keys of the Kingdom. (I won’t go
into that teaching just now).

The Lord Jesus and the Disciples by these keys forbade demons and
Satan to speak, they rebuked them and commanded them to flee;
they cast demons out of people, thereby healing many of sickness
and decease. They pulled down, broke up and eliminated fortified
places that the enemy had erected … thereby making room for the
Spirit of God to work the works of Almighty God in Jesus’ Name.

   What do we have to do, Children? “Submit ourselves to God;
resist the devil, and he will flee from you,” 1 Peter 5:8-9; James 4:7.
Present our bodies a living sacrifice to God and the gifts of the Spirit
will work the Lord’s work! Jesus, our Captain, will never send us
out to labor in His fields without giving us the weapons that we need
to battle a greater enemy than ourselves! He Himself was not sent by
His Father without power and the authority to defeat Satan’s power!
Greater was He who was in Jesus… than he who was in the world!
Selah!

THE TIMES ARE: “THE AGE OF MESSIAH”
CALLED “MESSIANIC” IT BEGAN WITH YESHUA, JESUS
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  The Lord Jesus by using the term church,
actually though, community … Hebr. gahal which the Gk renders
ekklesia means ‘an assembly called together’ ; is frequently used in
the OT to indicate a community of “the chosen people.” By using
the term community along side with that of the ‘kingdom of
Heaven,’ Jesus shows that the eschatological community of the end-
times (which began with the death and resurrection of Christ and the
Day of Pentecost) is to have its beginnings here on earth (under the
New Covenant in His Blood) in the form of His Body who is ruled
by the Body’s Head (Christ Himself), and it has been given
(delegated) the keys (powers, authorities) of the kingdom of Heaven,
see Acts 5:11, 1 co 1:2 & Ephesians all. We have the sovereignty of
God over “we the chosen people;” and through them (us) over the
principalities and powers, and rulers of darkness in heavenly places.
… This is at the heart of the Lord Jesus’ teaching. Rebellion, which
is sin, Children, will jeopardize His kingdom and our relationship
with Him, therefore, as with ancient Israel, He must deal with it!

“From then onwards Jesus began His proclamation with the
message, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is near at Hand,”
Matthew 4:17.
“Where two or three are gathered together in My name … there am
I among them (He, representing the kingdom of Heaven … side by
side,” … With Only two or three of us! Selah!

“Here I Come, Ready or Not!”

We Love You Very Much,
Shalom! SheepShed of Sent Ministries

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