Yom Kippur - series

 

The Head Of The Year (The First Aspect) - 10/1999 - Vision/Article

Yom Ha'din And Yom Kippur (The Second Aspect) - 10/1999 - Vision/Article

The Year Of The Dragon (The Third Aspect) - 10/1999 - Vision/Article

Yom Kippur and the Book of Life - 9/1998 - Article/Word

 

The Head Of The Year

Bob Neumann, 10/1999

THE YEAR TO COME … in THREE ASPECTS

For the last four years I have encountered THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL fulfilling the scriptures of ISAIAH...

Isaiah 46:5-12

5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: (KJV)

This would occur through images, patterns, and straight forward dictation during the DAYS OF AWE....the period between ROSH HA’SHANNAH and YOM KIPPUR. But this year was different, only I could not appreciate it till now as all the images come together. The difference was that these images began in preparation for the SEVENTH THUNDER. Accelerated while at Kremmling, Colorado to do “the work of the ministry” and continued through the period of reflection and repentance called TESHUVAH. So when the thirty days of TESHUVAH were completed the RAMIFICATIONS of this NEW YEAR and the multi-level meaning of THE FEAST OF THE AWAKENING BLAST OF THE SHOFAR. YOM HA’DIN.

ON YOM KIPPUR the unexpected occurred, but it was foreshadowed by the events that took place Sunday Morning in Kremmling and a verse I shared with Marsha Burns as BILL spoke of the TWO LAMPSTANDS WORD by Catherine Brown. As the BOOK OF LIFE WAS SEALED THE LAMB SPOKE THESE WORDS...

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. (KJV)

Unexpectedly I was informed that all I would see had happened before. That all what will come has already happened. The only difference might be the levels and the technology that man boasts of and freely worships.

Now this is not an easy message to bring forth, but already many are speaking of shades and shadows of what will take place. Whether the “why” it is as it is depends on whether I am obedient. So we go back to the time and the place....the eve of THE DAY OF ATONEMENT and THE VALLEY OF VISION.

I stood before THE KING OF GLORY in a long white linen robe. I was barefoot and looked around the room. There were many “witnesses” wearing similar robes but their robes were trimmed with silver and gold. They wore sandals and their heads were uncovered. I had a covering on my head. Beside THE KING was a table where a scroll sat. Near it two thick bunches of paper sat and I felt very uncomfortable looking at them. What I did not notice at first was a scroll on the ground at HIS FEET. It looked like it had been torn and trampled. I did not notice it till HE KICKED it later while speaking.

HE reached down and took one of the large/thick bundles of papers and extended it towards me. I stepped forward and took it from HIS HAND. It was very heavy. “SHEMUEL, MY SERVANT, THAT WHICH WAS IS NOW AGAIN.” HE STATED IN A QUIET VOICE.

“MASTER”, I replied, “What is wrong?”.

“WHAT THE ELDER SISTER HAD DONE, THE YOUNGER HAS REPEATED. THE INIQUITY AND UNCLEANNESS WAS PLACED IN EVIDENCE BEFORE THEM YET NONE REPENTED. I THUNDERED MY OBJECTIONS BUT THE ADULTERY CONTINUED. AHOLAH WHORED AND FORGOT HER BELOVED. SO TOO HAS AHOLIBAH, BUT HER DEEDS ARE FAR MORE UNCLEAN FOR I HAD TABERNACLED WITH HER AND GIVEN HER GIFTS BEYOND THE FIRST COVENANT.”

With that HE reached over to the scroll on the table and opened it before me.

“THIS IS THE BRIDAL CONTRACT FOR WHICH SHE WAS BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.

YET LIKE AHOLAH IT WAS BROKEN AND DISCARDED.” (at that point HE pushed the battered scroll with HIS FOOT)

I do not know why but I felt this great grief overwhelm me as I looked into HIS EYES and felt HIS HEART. I looked at the papers in my hands and they looked like legal papers. For the first time I realized this was something very wrong that was happening.

But I did not know why.

“SHEMUEL,” HE EXPLAINED, “THAT IS THE DECREE OF DIVORCE AGAINST THOSE WHO MADE THEIR BEDS WITH THE WHORE JEZEBEL. WHO HAVE CLUNG TO HER TEACHINGS AND IGNORED MY WORD AND MY SPIRIT”. WITH THOSE WORDS HE REACHED TO THE SCROLL ON THE TABLE AND OPENED IT. I thought he was going to drop it to the floor but did not. Instead HE just held on to it and watched me for a moment. “WHAT IS WRONG MY FRIEND?”, HE ASKED.

“MASTER, what of your BRIDE?”. At the time it seemed like a weird question. How many times had I seen the “DAUGHTER OF ZION” robed in WHITE? Trying to juggle all this in my mind has been hard. So it was funny what happened next. THE KING turned and took the other LEGAL PAPERS and handed them to me. They were fairly heavy. After putting them under my arm I watched HIM STOOP DOWN and PICK UP THE OLDER BATTERED SCROLL from the floor. Gently HE opened them both on the table and laid the older on the newer. And very slowly rolled them together. Very gently HE reached into HIS ROBE and took out a little white envelope and handed it to me with almost a shy, whist full smile.

“PLEASE, MY FRIEND, DELIVER THIS TO MY BELOVED AND CONTINUE TO STAND WATCH OVER HER.” WITH THAT HE HANDED ME THE TWO SCROLLS NOW ONE AND SAID: “BE MY ELIEZAR AND SHOW MY MIGHT AND POWER AS YOU BRING THE GIFTS TO MY BELOVED.”

With that I bowed, turned and walked away. Why I am not sure and shortly after walking away I stood in the WILDERNESS of the VALLEY OF VISION. Before me was a long caravan of camels, horses, and some other critters I think were llamas....the four legged kind. Now I once again wore that nice dark traveling robe. And began to wonder what it all meant.

As I looked at the two divorce orders(?) I began to hear THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT.....later I found the scripture and it began to make sense....the divorce.....

Jeremiah 3:6-12

6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. (KJV)

Please understand that the second fulfillment need not have happened if the “church” had not been ruled by NICOLAITANS and their DEMONIC OVERLORDS. Yet it happened in spite of both THE WORD and THE RUACH. That is why this sin is so grievous for it is written...

Hebrews 6:4-11

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: (KJV)

We had better things in store for us if we showed diligence unto the end. Instead MY MASTER is openly shamed by those who live carnally in BABYLON and call themselves HIS PEOPLE. But because those who were offered a NEW COVENANT and refused place was given/made to the CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM to whom the LORD will once again show HIMSELF MERCIFULL and FAITHFULL.....for the COVENANT OF ABRAHAM THAT FOR SO LONG HAD BEEN MISUSED AND FORGOTTEN IS STILL IN EFFECT.

One contract broken and abused....one contract restored and renewed.

But then after the vision ended once more as we rode through a wilderness I began to wonder why everything happened as it happened....

All this occurred the last day of THE DAYS OF AWE. what was most forward about this and the other images that came on YOM KIPPUR was the change in my interaction with my MASTER, THE KING. The intimacy had changed to a formality I am not used to. Twice HE CALLED ME SHEMUEL....something only ABBA has done. Seems “old dog” has changed, as did my atire. So whether I understand it fully yet is not important, for I still place my trust in HIM.

So the question is why would a “cohen” be required...a priest....to do the job required. Had to look in the LOGOS for answers. So first was the issue of divorce.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4

1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (KJV)

Now this goes back to HEBREWS 6 and the idea of “a point of no return” for those who “broke covenant” with THE LAMB. THE LAMB who is HIGH PRIEST and KING is HOLY....HE CAN NOT TAKE HER BACK. This followed through like a clear scarlet thread through the whole image of the HIGH PRIEST.

Leviticus 21:1-22

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. (KJV)

For years we have heard it preached that THE BRIDEGROOM was returning for a “church”/BRIDE without spot or blemish. I suppose the idea of “and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her:” Would disqualify much of the apostate church. But THE BRIDE.... THE DAUGHTER OF ZION has kept herself “clean” and “undefiled”. So where does this take us, we being “the BODY” made up of diverse parts? I was not sure as I looked through all the few “divorce” scriptures. There were far fewer than I expected. The most unsettling came early from THE LIPS OF THE LAMB HIMSELF. It seems to pull all the loose ends together.

Matthew 5:28-34

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: (KJV)

Like I said, everything over the last 2-3 months was fitting together. WHAT IS WRITTEN ON ROSH HA’SHANNAH IS SEALED ON YOM YIPPUR!! TALK ABOUT HARSH REALITY! REMEMBER THE SCRIPTURES FROM THE SEAL.....THE THIRD ASPECT THAT FOLLOWED THE THUNDER AND THE TRUMPET??? THE NEW COVENANT was forsaken by those who were called yet disqualified themselves by refusing to “build” on the “sure foundation” and swore allegiance to their idols. Less than wise they made their own covenant, a covenant that leads to eternal death. Just as Isaiah had spoken.

Isaiah 28:14-22

14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. (KJV)

Scornful men who ruled in JERUSALEM....AHOLIBAH........who forsake HIS BLOOD and HIS GRACE. for that reason a badly dismembered “BODY” will be what will go into the BRIDAL CHAMBER. this too, HE had alluded to in the TRUMPET aspect....from AMOS 3....

9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD. (KJV)

So the WRIT of DIVORCE will be read in EGYPT for those who “whored” after other gods. That is THE ASPECT OF THE THUNDER.....in this case it was “made perfect and complete” when THE LAMB THUNDERED SEVEN TIMES....but who received the “correction”.

So now we have to deal with a “woman” caught in adultery. But the MASTER is not in JERUSALEM to tell her to “sin no more”. HE did it in JERUSALEM, that was before. It occurred again fulfilling the prophecy of Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 when THE SEVEN THUNDERS were given by the mouth of two witnesses. Myself and Bill Burns. So that leaves us with a HARLOT and no GRACE...only TORAH....LAW.

Leviticus 20:10

10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. (KJV)

Not a lot of room it seems....for alternative thoughts. When people who were “caught in their sin” they were taken to a “priest” who would hear the case. Seeing we are all to be “priests” in HIS KINGDOM we must judge those around us and separate from those “caught”. Lest we join with them. Jeremiah and Ezekiel give us hard words for this situation and what follows for the HARLOT CHURCH.......

Jeremiah 7:1-34

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. (KJV)

Ezekiel 23:1-49

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. (KJV)

The VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM SHALL NO LONGER BE HEARD..... RECOMPENSE COMES UNTO THE LEWD AND THE IDOLATROUS CHURCH........

So ends the first stage of the year to come..........

And the commission of the PRIEST.....

SHEMUEL

 

 

 

Yom Ha'din And Yom Kippur

Bob Neumann, 10/1999

THE SECOND ASPECT

On YOM KIPPUR I had a vision similar to others in the past for it took place in the THIRD HEAVEN at ABBA'S FEET. But like the last meeting with my KING things were not like they once were. ABBA was indeed THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS GOD asked me to once again to ''walk'' with HIM, but I was not a child holding HIS HAND.

We walked from the THRONE ROOM into a GARDEN. It might have been EDEN, it does not matter. As we walked the fruit trees and the flowers gave off the most sweet and subtle odors. Then I remembered the times of trial where I could remember the floral scent of HIS PRESENCE as ABBA made me aware I was not alone. We sat down on a stone bench that looked out to THE RIVER and I could see the line of THE TREES OF LIFE on either side of THE RIVER. The conversation started strangely with a question I thought I had answered, and ABBA being ABBA wanted to make sure I understood.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REAL, SON?''

''Yes, ABBA, I do.'', I replied.

"THAT IS GOOD BECAUSE THE ISSUE OF WHAT IS TRUTH AND WHAT IS NOT WILL DECIDE ON WHOM MY BLESSING RESTS AND WHOM I WILL CURSE. SO MANY CLAIM BLESSINGS THAT THEY SHALL NEVER SEE. SO HAS IT BEEN SINCE THE BEGINNING WHEN MAN CHOSE TO EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN THE TREE OF LIFE. MANY CLAIM THE BENEFITS OF BEING MY CHILDREN WHEN THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD MY VOICE AND WILLING OBEYED EITHER MY COMMANDMENTS OR MY DIRECTIONS.

IS IT HARD, SHEMUEL, TO STEP TO THE RIGHT WHEN I ASK YOU TO?" HE was smiling gently and I knew the answer.....''Only when we make it hard to do so.'' ''I MADE THINGS SIMPLE FROM THE BEGINNING. MY DESIRE WAS TO RAISE UP CHILDREN WHO WOULD SEEK TO BE LOOKED UPON AS RIGHTEOUS AND ACCOUNTABLE. ALL IT TAKES IS EARS TO LISTEN AND A HEART THAT WOULD OBEY.

MANY WOULD HAVE ENJOYED TO WALK WITH ME IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING WHO REFUSED TO LEARN TO STAND AND WALK UPRIGHT BEFORE ME. SO MANY WALK IN ARROGANCE AND PRIDE THINKING THINGS OUT FOR THEMSELVES RATHER THAN TO LISTEN FOR MY VOICE AND TO ENJOY MY COMPANY. ALL IT TOOK WAS A HEART OF A CHILD TO WALK IN FAITH TRUSTING IN ME AND WHO I HAVE SAID I AM.''

With that HE turned towards me and asked another question. "SHEMUEL, DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DECEPTION AND DELUSION.?''

"I think I do. Deception is when led to believe a lie. Delusion is when someone lives a lie thinking it is the TRUTH." I watched ABBA'S face to see whether my answer evoked a response. Only ABBA'S face did not change. I guess what was about to be said brought no joy to HIM. I expected this because all during our walk I wore HIS ARMOR under a linen robe of purist white. White or the HOLINESS of HIS PRESENCE. ARMOR means KING'S BUSINESS.

"DECEPTION IS OF AND FROM YOUR ENEMY. IT IS HIS GREATEST WEAPON AGAINST MANKIND. IT STEALS LIFE AND STRENGTH AND REPLACES IT WITH DEATH AND BONDAGE. LOOK BEFORE YOU." In the air before me was an image of the oriental symbol for ''balance''. A circle holding the YIN and the YANG. Light/dark… good/evil...in ''equal balance'' in nature. It is a lie so many throughout the world accept.

''TOO MANY WHO CLAIM THE TITLE OF CHILDREN OF GOD ARE PLAYING WITH THIS IMAGE AND NOT WALKING IN MY TRUTH. THEY BALANCE THEIR LIVES BETWEEN MY WILL AND THEIR OWN FLESH THINKING IT IS SUFFICIENT. TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THEIR ERROR I WILL SEND TO THEM DELUSION. THEN YOU MAY WEIGH THEM AND JUDGE THEM FOR THE ABOMINATIONS THAT LAY
HIDDEN UNDER THE SURFACE WILL COME TO THE TOP AND BE SEEN. LIKE BOILS THAT CAN NOT BE HIDDEN WILL THE DECEIVERS BE EXPOSED AND EXCISED FROM A BODY.''

"LOOK AGAIN,'', HE DECLARED, and I saw a figure dressed as a HARLEQUIN balancing on a board on a cylinder rocking back and forth. In his hands were several Indian clubs being juggled in a figure eight pattern. As I watched the figure struggled to stay ''balanced'' and continue his performance. It takes great skill in the natural to ''perform'' this stunt. Lots of intense practice. Lots of single minded discipline. But once again I was being shown a ''circus act'' and understood this as part of the lies and deception from the DOCTRINES of MEN and DEMONS.

It was then I noticed ABBA smiling at me. I guess/know/rejoice that I ''caught'' this quick and easy.

"SON I DO HAVE A BALANCING ACT MUCH MORE WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION.''

With that statement the juggler was gone and there stood side by side was THE LAMB OF GOD AND THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. I went to stand in proper respect but ABBA'S HAND CAUGHT ME. Somehow the stone bench had elongated and there was plenty of room for THE SON at HIS RIGHT HAND and THE SPIRIT on HIS LEFT.

''THE BALANCE OF CREATION RESTS ON MY WILL, MY WORD, AND MY SPIRIT.''

WITH THAT THE TRINITY BEFORE ME BLURRED INTO A BRILLIANT SET OF THREE HOLY LIGHTS THAT SLOWLY MERGED AS ONE GLORIOUS LIGHT. THE ECHAD.… THE UNITY WE CALL ELOHIM.....GOD.

(As I sit and type this out it seems so simple and real and I think of all the times I have received phone calls, emails, letters condemning my speaking about what I saw here and the times before. It is hard to explain that even this wondrous vision of A HOLY, HOLY, HOLY GOD is a simple image that I can cope with. It is but a clear and uncomplicated representation that we humans can absorb. We just try to make it too hard for ourselves)

After a short time of sublime intimacy the LIGHT separated again to three wondrous and unique personalities and resumed the IMAGES I had known. Only this time a great book was in ABBA'S HANDS. ABBA looked on and nodded as THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT wrote in the BOOK. After a while this ended and ABBA closed the book and THE SON sealed it closed. Sent chills up and down my spine even to think about it. The sense of finality is very uncomfortable even now to ponder. Once the book was sealed ABBA PLACED it on HIS LAP, HIS HANDS folded and lying on it as to give it no further thought.

''YOU WERE BROUGHT HERE, SON, TO WITNESS AND TO DECLARE THAT THE BOOK OF LIFE HAS BEEN SEALED. IN IT ARE THE NAMES OF THE FAITHFULL WITNESSES WHO PROCEEDED YOU AND THE REMNANT WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR GARMENTS CLEAN AND THEIR HEARTS PURE. LATER WHEN IT IS OPENED THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO WASH THEIR ROBES IN THE GREAT TRIBULATION WILL BE INSCRIBED."

"THE JUDGEMENT OF THE LAMB HAS BEGUN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. LOOK TO HIS WORDS TO UNDERSTAND THE TRIALS THAT HAVE BEGUN. THE DECEIVER SPREADS HIS HATE AND LIES UNCHECKED BY A TRIUMPHANT CHURCH BECAUSE WHAT MOST WOULD CALL ''CHURCH'' IS NEITHER VIOLENTLY ENGAGING THE ENEMY NOR COMPASSIONATELY MINISTERING TO MY CHILDREN.''

''YOU WILL SEE AN ACCELERATION OF EVENTS AS SPOKEN OF BY MY LAMB AND AN ESCALATION OF WICKEDNESS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN AS THEY QUENCH THE MINISTRY OF THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. THEY WILL NOT BOW THEIR KNEE TO THE
CONVICTION MY SPIRIT BRINGS. THEY WILL HOLD TO THEIR IDOLS WITH MORE STRENGTH THAN THEY EVER PROMISED TO USE FOR MY KINGDOM. THEIR BROKEN VOWS AND PROMISES WILL BE EXPOSED AND THE ENEMY WILL USE IT TO RIDICULE EVEN THOSE HE SUBVERTED FROM MY SERVICE. THEN HE WILL BEGIN TO DEVOUR THEM. LIKE WAVES BEATING THE SHORE, WATCH THEIR INTENSITY INCREASE AS THEY INCREASE IN FREQUENCY AND IN DURATION TILL THE LAND IS OVER SWEPT AS THE STORM SURGE INUNDATES AND FLOODS ALL THAT WOULD NOT MOVE TO SAFETY.''

''REMEMBER THE RIGHTEOUS RUN TO MY NAME AND ARE SAVED. THAT IS HOW QUICK AND UNEXPECTED MANY WILL SEE THE FLOOD COME. FEW OF EVEN MY CHILDREN ARE ANY MORE THAN CHILDREN. OF THESE FEW, MOST ARE SERVANTS LIKE YOU SHEMUEL WHO I CALLED OUT BY NAME. YOU COUNTED THE COST YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE. YOU SAW IT AND CALLED IT THE "FUNNEL OF TIME''. YOU DID WELL SON. NOW TELL THEM OF THE DECEPTION AND DELUSION THAT THEY YET WILL FACE.''

With that the vision ended. so where does it leave me....

A week late writing this....not eager to....so here goes.....

JUDGEMENT and DECEPTION

I guess the best place to start is with THE KING.....

Revelation 19:11-13

11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (KJV)

 

Today there are stories of floods, wildfires, nuclear disasters, plagues, earthquakes, wars in the morning paper. seems like THE WORD knows so we listen…

Matthew 24

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

 

So the first problem has been with men trying to deceive us. So far they have done a good job. But it seems to be about to get much worse over the next year.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

This can be taken two ways. Deceivers will come saying they are ''messiahs'', nothing new but many will believe their lies....especially when they can ''deliver'' signs and wonders that everyone across amerika seems to be chasing for......

Then it could mean....that we will see them come as ''Christians'' with anointings. Hello? I am agag the apostle....or potapher the prophet......well ''oiled'' ministries.....''moving'' in spirits less than holy.... seems like it has already started. it will get even worse......

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

 

Everyone has been talking about persecution in amerika for years. Usually in regards of ''Christians'' not getting their rights''.....can run from school officials frowning at students with Bibles to pastors complaining of ''conspiracy'' because their ''building permits'' are refused. Interestingly anywhere else in the world ''persecution is measured in beatings and rapes, prison cells and graves. Amerika is learning what the ''wrath of Satan'' could include. Children murdered in churches, schools, malls, etc will be loosing it's ''shock'' value as the death toll increases....

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Looks like church against church as it presently now stands. There is no unity in the ''so called AMERIKAN CHURCH"....selah. Now Paul warned about taking offense......

Romans 16:17-18

17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (KJV)

 

Isn't it nice that THE KING tells us ahead of time who and where these ''offenses'' will originate.....

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

 

It has begun. it is time for every child of ABBA to judge all they ''hear'', ''see'', ''feel'' by THE WORD and THE SPIRIT.

 

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

 

To endure to the end no matter what or how it ends.....

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (KJV)

 

So the ''very elect'' would be deceived if the KING did not cut short the days. this is extremely important. We are about to see an acceleration and escalation of demonic deception with lying signs and wonders coming at ''the elect'' face to face. It will happen in the churches and anywhere else those who are very elect....and those not so elect congregate. This coming time will be hard on many levels.

The question is whether you discern THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT....or can't tell the difference on your own. in that case, you are in trouble.

Now I could explain deception....and have done so in the past. Instead ABBA is more interested in us understanding what HE is doing. Funny there are only two scriptures in which to even look for what ABBA was speaking of. Two witnesses to speak of the LAST DAYS and THE TIMES OF TROUBLE....so let's start with Paul.....

2 Thessalonians 2:7-15

7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. (KJV)

 

ABBA sends to the lukewarm and the carnal elect ''strong delusion'' because they really "LOVED THE TRUTH". but like the churches in SMYRNA and PHILADELPHIA he warns us to ''stand fast and to hold on''. Simple for us if we are in CHRIST JESUS.....impossible if we are not.

So let's see how Isaiah called it.......Isaiah 66:1-6

1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies. (KJV)

 

Here THE PROPHET spoke of delusions. more than one. Seems like ABBA can tailor a delusion to the abomination of the ''less than elect''. To back it up he warns of persecution from the ''inside''. So ends the second aspect. My second role. To judge and speak HIS SENTENCE about to be carried out.

HINE HU BA

SHEMUEL

 

 

 

The Year Of The Dragon

Bob Neumann, 10/1999

THE THIRD ASPECT

When YOM KIPPUR was completed I was inundated with what I had been shown.

STRONG IMAGES, HARD IMAGES. And no real eagerness to write anything down. Unlike previous years, what was to be said was slightly one sided and less than compassionate than the typical ''prophetic word''. But how do you make a compassionate plea out of the indictment of a RIGHTEOUS and HOLY GOD against those who mock HIS NAME. Most of the ''so-called-brethren'' will not receive a ''word'' that they can deem as ''harsh'' or ''unloving''. In the past I have sinned against my ABBA, my KING, and THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT because I was concerned at how ''people'' will respond to what I write....or worse....how I write it. It is stupid to fear man more than you love GOD. In time I have come to realize that obedience wins in all situations. Period.

So how do you deal with ''hard words''.....so I asked THE WORD and got Matthew 22:1-14:

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, but few are chosen. (KJV)

 

Like it or not the message of YOM KIPPUR was to go out. But then again this whole season was not following the previous laid pattern. I should have picked up on it but did not. So when THE FEAST OF SUKKOT came as it always does I should have been anticipating more. There were images left hanging and the ''third day'' and the ''third level'' Bill Burns had spoken of not yet done. Like in the parable there are more than one party involved with the story. The ''church'' is like the people who insulted the hospitality of the KING. Yet the KING felt it was within HIS "RIGHTS" to destroy them and then burn their city. is the world the city? Or just apostate Christianity? Don't seem to matter does it. Like it or not ABBA HAS SPOKEN and IN RIGHTEOUSNESS does THE LAMB JUDGE and MAKE WAR. What is interesting is the 14th verse....and the few who are chosen.

So SUCCOTH came and so did THE LAMB......and we stood in HIS MISHKON as it was at the end of the SEVENTH THUNDER. HE WORE GOLDEN ARMOR AND MANY CROWNS. I seemed to have been Dressing down because I once again wore dirty cavalry blue. Under my arm I carried the scrolls. I felt my tunic pocket and the letter to THE DAUGHTER OF ZION was there. HE stood at the great table where maps were laid out and around it were men in uniform listening intensely and studying the maps. all were solid images easy to describe....better yet easy to place scripture to....for instance....

Proverbs 11:14

14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. (KJV)

 

Proverbs 15:22

22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (KJV)

 

Proverbs 24:6

6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety. (KJV)

 

Then again is the vision and the images necessary. We are all intelligent people. If GOD would speak to us face to face would it not make enough of an impression that we would immediately comprehend and be in agreement. Logical extrapolation....except it does not seem to work.....like in ADAM and EVE. Abram went to EGYPT.....Paul complained quite clearly....

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

So maybe the visual images in all this are necessary to get it into HIS PEOPLE. so I was not surprised when my train of thought was punctuated by that STILL SWEET VOICE with one familiar scripture verse.

Proverbs 29:18

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

So I had my answer as THE KING CONFERRED. Of course as I watched I did wonder whether these were real men....''angels'' on detached duty..... or just something to make me think of certain scriptures. After a few minutes of this mental stirrings THE KING slowly looked up and delivered a quite effective glare.

"WHAT AM I TO DO WITH YOU?", HE ASKED with what I hoped was a rhetorical question. "THE BATTLE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN AND THE SHEEP SLEEP IN THEIR PEWS UNAWARE THAT THE WOLVES GUARD A MAJORITY OF THE FOLDS. AND YOU ARE WONDERING WHETHER THERE ARE ANGELS AT MY TABLE."

With that HE turned and we sort of went through a ''veil'' I had not seen and were standing in the 'chuppah'....the BRIDAL CHAMBER. "THIS IS THE PLACE I PREPARED. YOU LIKE MY SUKKAH?''. Now I had walked around this place many times a few thunders in the past. I would not have called it a ''booth''. tabernacle, maybe.....

"THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, SHEMUEL, YOU KNOW MUCH, BUT NOT ALL. ALL THE IMAGES ARE BUT THREADS TO A COMMON CORD. WHETHER THIS IS A CHUPPAH FOR THE BRIDE, OR A CLOSET FOR PRAYER IT IS ALL THE SAME. TO THOSE WHO I HAVE ''TABERNACLED'' WITH IT IS BOTH A PLACE OF INTIMACY AND A PLACE OF SAFETY. AS THE DAYS EXTEND INTO WEEKS MANY WILL COME FORTH WITH IMAGES AND INTERPRETATIONS FOR THE TIME AHEAD. AND LIKE BEFORE MANY ARE PREPARING PROGRAMS AND AGENDAS FOR THE MILLENNIAL YEAR. ESTABLISHING RHYMING PHRASES BASED ON THEIR EXPECTATIONS AND NOT ON MY WORD.''

''IT ALL COMES DOWN TO LABELS AND PREPLANNED LEVELS OF HYPE. WHAT MANY CALL THE YEAR 2000 WILL BE REALLY THE YEAR ZERO FOR ALL THAT WAS HAS BEEN WIPED CLEAN. THE LEVELS OF DECEPTION, DISILLUSIONMENT, DEBAUCHERY, AND DEFILEMENT WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND SCOPE FOR THE ACCUSER HAS BEEN CAST DOWN AND MAKES WAR WITH THE SAINTS. THAT IS WHY COVENANT IS SO IMPORTANT, SHEMUEL. FOR WITHOUT COVENANT THERE IS NO PROTECTION FOR THE SIMPLE MORTALS WHO BATTLE DAILY TO SURVIVE. WITHOUT COVENANT WITH ME THERE IS NONE WHO WILL PROTECT AND DEFEND THE INNOCENT. IT IS COVENANT THROUGH WHICH THE ANOINTING COMMISSIONS YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS TO ENFORCE MY PEACE IN THE MIDST OF THE DARKNESS.''

''IN CHINA THIS IS NOW THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT. THE ENEMY USES THE PAGAN CALENDAR TO DECLARE HIS INTENTIONS. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MY COVENANT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TARGETED AND BEEN PERSECUTED. IT WILL GET WORSE FOR THE NEXT YEAR IN THE ACCUSER'S CALENDAR IS THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON. PRIDE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS DOWNFALL AND HIS WEAKNESS. LONG HAS HE STOOD OPENLY CHALLENGING THE CHURCH JUST AS GOLIATH CHALLENGED ISRAEL. THE CHURCH LIKE ISRAEL STOOD IN FEAR LED BY LEADERSHIP THAT HAD BROKEN COVENANT WITH ME AND PERVERTED THEIR ANOINTING. SAUL REFUSED TO FACE GOLIATH BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT SERVE WELL THE DEMON THAT HELD HIM IN BONDAGE. LIKEWISE THE NICOLAITANS THAT INFEST MY BODY WILL NEVER STAND AND DO BATTLE IN MY NAME AGAINST THEIR VESTED INTERESTS.''

"LIKE I SAID BEFORE ALL THAT NOW HAPPENS IS BUT A REPEAT OF WHAT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.''

I sat across from HIM among the pillows of the wedding bedroom. I held the two scrolls that were rolled together and wondered how they fitted into all this. But what was once before will be again. How does that fit with the WRITS OF DIVORCE?

''SHEMUEL, I TOLD YOU THAT YOU WOULD BE MY ELIEZAR. THAT WAS ONE IMAGE. NOW I GIVE YOU ANOTHER. THE TIME HAS COME TO REPLACE VASHTI WITH ESTHER. A REBELLIOUS WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO SUBMIT WITH A VIRGIN BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.''

Now we were again back at images from the FOURTH THUNDER. ESTHER and her attendants. It was amazing how well things just seemed to flow together. As I thought on this THE KING STOOD UP and walked toward a wall. I hurried to follow and once again we passed through the wall as it where mist. from the outside the great walls of THE TOWER OF THE LORD stood high over head.

"MANY WILL SPEAK OF WHAT IS TO COME. ALL WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD TO BRING ALL TO FULLNESS. TELL MY BELOVED THAT SHE MUST DISCERN AND JUDGE ALL THINGS. MANY WILL SPEAK OF MOUNTAINS AND STORMS, PERSECUTION AND HARVEST. MANY WILL CONTINUE TO PREACH PROSPERITY AND BLESSINGS WHILE THE WORLD AROUND THEM CONTINUES TO SINK IN THE SANDS OF THEIR DOCTRINES.''

''TEACH THEM OF THE ROCK, ''''T'ZUR Y'SRAEL''''. TEACH THEM OF MY COVENANTS AND MY PROMISES THAT ARE THEIRS ALONE.'' With that I remembered the scrolls in my hand. And I suddenly thought of RUTH and ESTHER and I felt a gentle touch on my arm. THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT had joined us and I knew where that ''thought'' had come from.

"TEACH THEM, SHEMUEL,'' HE CONTINUED, ''WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM SERVANTS IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE.'' on that HE TURNED and entered the TOWER. THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT slowly began to walk away with me in tow. We just walked casually with no apparent direction. I was wondering if everything was fitting together as easily as I had begun to think. we came to a stop facing a blank horizon with nothing to see. "THAT IS BECAUSE THERE REALLY IS NOTHING WORTH SEEING FOR MOST IN THE DAYS AHEAD. ALREADY PESTILENCE AND STORM RAVAGES YOUR LAND. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SWORD, FAMINE, AND POVERTY DEVOURS HOPE OF MANY WHO KNOW NOT THE TRUTH. MILLIONS DIE IN SQUALOR AND MISERY NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH FOR THE NATION THAT WAS ONCE BLESSED AND EMPOWERED TO BRING THE GOOD NEWS HAS FORGOTTEN IT'S HERITAGE AND SOLD IT'S BIRTHRIGHT FOR VAIN PLEASURES.''

''SUFFERING WILL INCREASE AS DECEPTION DEEPENS AND DELUSIONS ARISE. THEIR IS NO PLACE TO HIDE EXCEPT UNDER MY WINGS DEAR FRIEND. DO NOT FORGET THE LETTER YOU CARRY CLOSE TO YOUR HEART AND THE ROD IN YOUR HAND.''

With those words I felt the scrolls in my hand they seem to have gained weight and mass. Felt very familiar but still looked the same.

"YOU ARE A STEWARD OF THE HOUSE....A PRIEST UNDER BOTH COVENANTS. IT IS TIME FOR BOTH HOUSES AND COVENANTS TO BECOME FULLY ONE. IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN WHEN YOU AND THOSE COMMISSIONED GO OUT AND ESCORT THE BRIDE TO HIS CHAMBERS. MANY HEAR THE TRUMPET AND MANY HEAR THE SHOUT. BUT ALL MUST STAND AND COME TO THE BANQUET.''

With that I was back in my home trying to catch my breath. So that is what is to come.

Selah

SHEMUEL

 

 

 

Yom Kippur and the Book of Life

Bob Neumann, 9/1998

“May your name be written in the Book of Life for another prosperous year”, was a declaration I had never heard until I moved down to Miami Beach in 1975. It surprised me as much as hearing “Happy New Year” in September. Being invited to a random Seder dinner or Hanukkah brunch, a Purim Celebration gives you a sense that there are more than one way of looking at the world. But it takes Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement to force you to realize that YHVH has His own “PERSONAL Calendar”, and agenda for mankind.

Funny in a way, but I have not heard this greeting this year as Rosh Ha SHANAH came and went. Funny also that HIS YEAR has been completely overshadowed by the circumstantial situations that seem to have mesmerized the American Media. I really do not believe the American Populace really care much about what their president says or does unless it begins to infringe upon their personal comfort zones. In reality the Secular AMERICA and the Religious AMERICA have the same comfort zone. Their money. “Touch my money and you get my attention...FAST.”, seems to be the most common characteristic between the WORLD and the CHURCH.

In other words, there is no difference.

In past years this last week would have been a time of quiet prayer and meditation. A time as King David wrote Psalm 32:5-7:

5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. (KJV)

Then again I have found myself in that place of “hiding” in the midst of the storm. As Georges moves off into the Gulf of Mexico my ‘prayers’ were weak and exhausted as I tried to give thanks once again. Without even understanding I found myself interceding for those whom Hurricane Georges will make final landfall in the next two days. The awareness that there is no escape for someone farther down the line is a sober and chilling thought. One would have to wonder was such thoughts going through David’s mind when he wrote Psalm 8:1-9 :

1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! (KJV)

Maybe in the utter exhaustion and awareness of my reality I can finally understand David. That time of prayer I thought stolen from me was not. Instead I finally began to comprehend that little matters about me, but what I do. My words and thoughts have little value if not matched by deeds and actions. Only then I can look upward and know that the promises and blessings we hold so closely to shall be manifest.

Isaiah 43:1-5

1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; (KJV)

So now I sit and ponder the visions in my spirit and the storms that batter my house. Is there a difference? Or has a final revelation come forward because of the WORDS not said? Have we forgotten ABBA’S YEAR and HIS AGENDA because it is not fitting into our comfort zones. Or maybe a “prosperous year” is not dependent on YHVH and HIS MERCIES that endure forever. Why does everything wind up with a price tag when it comes to both the church and the world? For a long time I wondered if I had missed it until the TRUTH spoke once again into my life. And as usual THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT used LOGOS before HE hammered me with RHEMA.

3 John 1-14

1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:

7 Because that for his name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:

14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name. (KJV)

Outside of verse 2 whoever hears anything of 3 John. Poor old John did not see dollar signs when he prayed “prosperity” over the sheep he had stood guard over for so long and so well. Maturity, Wisdom, Fruitfulness in the SPIRIT and THE KINGDOM of GOD is where our wealth and health originates....

Matthew 6:19-21

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (KJV)

So I ponder where my heart is knowing that my end at this season of TESHUVAH is exactly where it began, in Psalm 27:

1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. (KJV)

So in HIS PAVILION and HIS TABERNACLE I have worshipped, prayed and interceded, given unto HIM songs of Thanksgiving. Knowing that HE has not stricken me from the BOOK OF LIFE I do not need others wishing me well for the “NEW YEAR” for like David I have numbered my days and am aware of the GREATEST TRUTH.

Psalm 1:1-6

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. (KJV)

So when I asked ABBA what is wrong in all I see around me HE gave me this ‘selah’ to ponder. “JUSTIFIED”....and immediately in my mind and spirit one image came clearly.

Luke 18:9-17

9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

And I understood the true difference between the wheat and the tares, and the harvest that now begins. but the story did not end with verse 14. Sometime we cut JESUS off just before HE gets to the critical stuff. and I wonder why we ‘‘miss it’’?

15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. (KJV)

So there are only two choices. To ‘prosper’ as the world defines it and to stand proudly before THE THRONE oblivious to the KINGDOM and THE FATHER. Or to come as a child without guile, abased and humble as we call out for HIS MERCY aware of our sin. Trusting in HIM and not ourselves. Coming as worthless ragamuffins and beggars unto THE KING OF GLORY and be received as beloved Children of GOD, Heirs of the Kingdom, and a FRIEND of THE KING.

As I finish these thoughts THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT asks: “IF THEY FORGET TO GIVE THANKS FOR THE BLESSINGS THEY NOW HAVE, WILL THEY REMEMBER TO DO SO IF GIVEN ANY MORE?”.

In response I hear a faint whisper in my spirit that will soon echo across this land. “The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;”; but few will remember how the quote really ends.

Job 1:20-22

20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. (KJV)

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT is coming shortly and many hearts have not sought HIM. Again a reality seeps through to my spirit that was there when I began to write this piece. “For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. In a time when you may be found implies a point in time GOD will not be found by sinners, and prodigals. Then maybe there is a time where “Thou art my hiding place” also implies a physical reality many will not appreciate because of sitting too long in their comfort zones. AND it all ties in with being in covenant and being ‘‘justified’’. And that only comes from THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. And being known by THE LAMB....for your name is inscribed in HIS BOOK....THE BOOK OF LIFE.

SELAH MARANATHA

Bob in Goshen