Keep your Memory Working.
A Return to the very Faraway Past to Discover the Brilliant Future
of the New World to Come!
The last Feast Day of the year according to the holy calendar of
the Lord, the eighth day following the Sukkoth festival set up by Yehoah Elohim for His people is a last chance offered to us
for the work of the memory wished
by our Holy Father.
In many places in His Bible, He urges us to keep His feasts and His
commandments in order not to forget the past of our adoptive cousins and/or
ancestors, the Children of Israel, the prestigious descendants of Abraham. Yehoa is also asking us to transmit the explanations about the
origins and about the meaning of His feasts to our children.
This mission of remembrance is requested
from us, for example, on the occasion of Passover and of the feast of the seven
days of unleavened bread, as we will read in Exodus, chapter 12, verses 24 to
27, and also in chapter 13 and the verse. 8:
" 24 And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your
sons forever. 25 It will come to pass when you come to the
land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep
this service. 26 And it shall be, when your children say to you,
‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 that you shall say, ‘It is
the Passover sacrifice of Yehoah, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and
delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. "
And then in chapter 13:
" And you shall tell
your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what Yehoah
did for me when I came up from Egypt.’… "
The last day of the seventh month holidays!
This remembrance must also challenge
us on the last day of the sacred year, the eighth day following the seven days
of the feast of Sukkoth (aka the feast of the huts which commemorates the lives
of the Children of Israel in huts during their stay in the desert after leaving
Egypt). This last feast is mentioned in Leviticus chapter 23 and verses 33 to
36:
" 33 Then Yehoah spoke to Moses, saying, 34 “Speak to the
children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be
the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Yehoah. 35
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary
work on it. 36 For seven days you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yehoah. On the eighth day you shall have a
holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yehoah. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no
customary work on it. "
As with previous holy days, let's
find out what this eighth day holiday is looking like in the past. And with
this good starting point, we will then try to establish the link between the
very prestigious future that our Father is creating
for us. This is the main reason why Elohim is asking us to keep these feasts because
they are the shadow of things to come as Paul wrote in his epistle to the Colossians,
chapter 2 and verse 16.
Entry into the Promised Land, the shadow of the world to come.
This last feast-day of the biblical
year is indeed quite special since it is without any doubt the shadow of the
new eternal world being created by Yehoah for his still
unborn family, Jesus excepted. It is during the event
symbolized by this feast of the 22nd day of the seventh month that
we will be offered to dedicate this World to Come!
We know also without any doubt that
the feast of the huts (Sukkot) is there for us to commemorate the stay of the
children of Israel in the Sinai desert after their exit from Egypt. So the
logic is that this eighth day following Sukkot is there to commemorate the
events that followed the stay of the children of Israel in the desert when they
started to take property of the Holy Land, the Land of Canaan, and became sedentary
people.
The feast of this Last Great Day is
therefore the commemoration of the entry of the Children of Israel into the
Promised Land under the leadership of their King at that time, Yehoah, who at the same time accepts to take back power in
this land. The iniquity of the people who inhabited it had reached its limit.
Let us read how Moses recalls Yehoah’s own words in
Deuteronomy chapter 31, verses 1-6:
" 1Then Moses went and
spoke these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them: “I am one
hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also Yehoah has said to me, ‘You shall not cross over this
Jordan.’ 3 Yehoah your Elohim Himself
crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you
shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as Yehoah has said. 4 And Yehoah
will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites and
their land, when He destroyed them. 5 Yehoah
will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every
commandment which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of good
courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for Yehoah
your Elohim, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake
you.”
Let us also note here that there is
yet another striking similarity between our Savior Jesus and Moses: both could
not enter directly into the Kingdom of the Promised Land; Just as Moses passed
away before the Children of Israel crossed the Jordan river, Jesus Christ too
died between the end of the old world and the future entry into the new world.
Is the Yehoah Elohim of the Old Covenant
so different from the Lord that Christianity claims to worship in the New
Testament?
Often the false
"Christianity" uses some writings of the Old Covenant to tell the
world that the pre-Christian Yehoah, the one they
call the God of the Jews, as if there is another Elohim than theirs, would be a
more primitive divinity, less evolved and cruel! This false
"Christianity" also uses this argumentation to state that with the
advent of Jesus the Savior, everything has changed and that the arrival of
their Christianity finally gives way to the modern God "unable to harm a
fly", under- heard an Elohim who would let people do whatever they want
and who would comply to all their visions of society. This Elohim "Papa
cake", to simplify their lives, would have even made a "cross"
on the law and the commandments of the Old Covenant that would be somehow part
of another world that should be buried. It would be enough to proclaim loudly
the word Love to succeed! But if you look at it carefully, you will be able to
notice that often those on the one hand who are giving such teachings are
trying to catch the people’s mind and make them spiritual preys to dominate
them and suck their wealth out, and those on the other hand who are ready to
follow them with these slogans of love, will empty the word love of all its
substance since they use it to satisfy their ego by loving themselves and only themselves.
People in today’s western world are
often addicts of drugs, fornicate, switch from one partner to another without
distinction of sexes, destroy themselves and destroy their surroundings. Such people
are killing what is left of love and that would have survived their selfish and
destructive actions. As we will see later, we must compare this generation of
people with those who lived in the Land of Canaan before the entrance of the Children
of Israel or even earlier with the people living before the flood. And it is
also the time to draw your attention on the fact that, on the contrary of the
false dreams of the religious leaders of this century, the Lord Yehoah does not change at all, as James tells us in his
epistle, chapter 1, verse 17:
" Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with
whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. "
Killers, thieves and egoists to be destroyed altogether
to
save human beings and the Elohim’s creation.
Indeed, imagine people destroying
everyone and everything! People who sacrifice to death their children for their
good pleasure just as today so many parents sacrifice their children to get
more money! Husbands and wives usually have children, but they refuse the
responsibilities of love and education that goes together with children. As
soon as possible, instead of doing everything possible to give the best of to
support the growth of children, people will get rid of them as soon as possible
in a kindergarten in the hand of people who are not always with the
right capabilities needed to take care of the many babies entrusted to them.
When children are growing, the irresponsible parents, if they have not already
divorced, are convincing themselves that their children are able to take
control of themselves. In the name of the sacrosanct freedom with which he is
endowed, the poor child finds himself alone and often in the jungle of cities
and their suburbs where the majority of western people are living as they fled
the countryside despite the fact that this should be the natural environment.
These children, who do not even have the beautiful nature to admire, these
children in search of love risk becoming the prey of other people who are also
looking for money, the god of this world, and they will sacrifice these
children sometimes to drugs and maybe worse, to pedophilia. All these children
sacrificed by our "so beautiful society" who thinks they have a duty
to give lessons to other nations will find themselves alone as on a desert
island without any reference or guidance to decide where to go. The result is a
population of violent criminals and anarchists who will push even further the
work of destruction that their parents and their entourage have shown them.
It is not enough to sacrifice children
to money, the god of this world, people will go much
further when they begin to destroy nature conscientiously to satisfy their
selfishness. These poor children will not be able to find anything good in life
if they unfortunately manage to survive the bad treatment they were forced to get
during their childhood. Less and less birds in the cities and in the
countryside, fewer and fewer animals in the forest crossed by more and more
highways, less and less fish in polluted rivers and oceans. Domestic animals
(calves, poultry and fish) are poisoned forcibly in livestock camps to provide more
and more food that is often wasted. Well, these people we are maybe part of are
very similar to those who lived in the land of Canaan before the entry of the
Children of Israel. They are perhaps even worse than them! You can now understand
why Yehoah has decided to scratch them off the face
of the earth, just as he also decided to do at the time of the flood. There is
nothing good to be gained from these people whose sole purpose is to destroy everything
around them.
Elohim, the Creator rejected out of His creation by His own
children!
We should also understand why Yehoah is far from being interested in the majority of
today’s people, who rejected Him. And even more, people with their rebellious
and resisting spirit have the boldness to claim that Elohim does not exist, because
Yehoah simply lets us languish in the cloak that
we've made ourselves with persistence. How many times do we not hear this "If
God existed, he would not let all these misfortunes happen! ".
To come back to our point,
therefore, the entry into the Promised Land of the Children of Israel should be
put in parallel with the gradual elimination of all the peoples who once lived
there. This final elimination was orchestrated by Yehoah
and He was expecting an efficient support from His people. He was hoping for a
support at least as efficient as the one He got from the hornets as can seen in Joshua, chapter 24 and verses 11 to 13:
" 11 Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of
Jericho fought against you—also the Amorites, the Perizzites,
the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I
delivered them into your hand. 12 I sent the hornet before you which
drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not
with your sword or with your bow. 13 I have given you a land for
which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in
them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant."
So in addition to what we wrote
above, Yehoah not only does not harm a fly but on the
contrary he honors the hornets to make His glory shine in the eyes of all those
people who despise Him by destroying His work and His Holy Land . This proves
that nature has faith in his Creator and the hornets honor him.
Unfortunately, unlike the obedient hornets,
the Children of Israel did not do the job that Yehoah
asked them to accomplish. They did not clean
the Land of Canaan. Let's read that in Psalm 106 verses 34 to 39:
"34 They did not
destroy the peoples, concerning whom Yehoah had
commanded them, 35 but they mingled with the Gentiles and learned
their works; 36 They served their idols, which
became a snare to them. 37 They even sacrificed their sons and their
daughters to demons, 38 and shed innocent blood, the blood of their
sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land
was polluted with blood. 39 Thus they were
defiled by their own works, and playedthe harlot by
their own deeds."
Now that we have hopefully
understood that the feast of the eighth day of the Sukkoth feast is symbolizing
the entry of the Children of Israel into the Promised Land under the leadership
of their King Yehoah, we will try to understand what
the shadow left by that feast represents. in the world
to come.
Just as the Sukkot festival is a
symbol for the thousand-year reign of Yashuah (better
known as Jesus) and his Saints over this world where death will still have all
its power, so the Last Great Feast Day of the seventh month is a symbol for the
appearance of the new world, with its new earth and new skies, where the death
and the empire of death will not exist anymore!
Have a look at the brief description
of these events in Revelation, chapter 20, verses 7-15:
" 7 Now when the
thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8
and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the
sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and
surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from
Elohim out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented
day and night forever and ever.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before Elohim, and
books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And
the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written
in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who
were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And
they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and
Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15
And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of
fire. "
So here we are witnessing the
ultimate end of the ancient world of which Satan was the prince. During the
thousand years that preceded this end, the Saints under the leadership of their
Shepherd, Yashuah, Jesus-Christ, will live on earth travelling
from place to place just as the Children of Israel have travelled in the Sinai.
These thousand years will be used to teach obedience to the human beings who
will survive the end times. During these days on earth, the Anointed One, Jesus
foreshadowed by Moses, will lead the camp and we will once again see water
springing up in the wilderness as Isaiah tells us in chapter 35 and verse 6:
" Then the lame shall
leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth
in the wilderness, and streams in the desert (Arava).
"
But just after these 1000 years and
the little time during which the Devil will be allowed to make a last and final
“show”, we will hopefully discover and enter the new world with its new heaven,
new earth and last but not least, the new Jerusalem! Satan and his devils will
be banned from this new world. It will be the masterwork of Yehoah
Elohim. The shadow cast by this event in our present evil world is represented
by this last feast day of the sacred year, the feast that is held on the eighth
day just after the Sukkot festival described in Leviticus 23, verse 36:
" For seven days you
shall offer an offering made by fire to Yehoah. On
the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an
offering made by fire to Yehoah. It is a sacred
assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it."
Before the appearance of this new
world (symbolized by the Promised Land), a particularly moving ceremony will
take place, the second abdication in the family of Elohim, this time, that of Yashuah (best known in the world under the name of Jesus
Christ). Yehoah Elohim had indeed already abdicated
when the Children of Israel rejected Him in favor of King Saul. Let's read how
it happened in I Samuel, in chapter 8, verses 6-8:
" 6 But the thing
displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel
prayed to Yehoah. 7 And Yehoah said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all
that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought
them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. "
A second abdication, that of our Savior in the brightness of his glory
and the Revelation of the New World.
But today, the reason for the
abdication of Jesus will be much more joyful since he puts all his power in the
hands of his Father, after having accomplished perfectly his mission. In fact Yashuah, our Prince and Savior will have acted in
accordance with the example of the good servants who have increased the number
of the mines they received from their Lord during the time of his absence. Yashuah (aka Jesus) will offer to his Father a purified and
enriched kingdom with a great family of daughters and sons. Paul describes this
very well in his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 20 to 28:
" 20 But now Christ
is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits
of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by
Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in
his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward
those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes
the end, when He delivers the kingdom to Elohim the Father, when He puts an end
to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till
He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will
be destroyed is death. 27 For “He has put all things under His
feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He
who put all things under Him is excepted. 28
Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be
subject to Him who put all things under Him, that Elohim
may be all in all. "
A New World whose reality exceeds the fiction offered on a silver
platter.
We must also mentally prepare
ourselves for another sensational aspect of this entry into the New World, an
aspect that we must suspect from the shadows left by the entry of the Children
of Israel into the Promised Land, shadows that we will read in chapter 6 of the
book of Deuteronomy, verses 10 to 12:
" 10 “So it shall
be, when Yehoah your Elohim brings you into the land
of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you
large and beautiful cities which you did not build, 11 houses full
of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not
dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and
are full— 12 then beware, lest you forget Yehoah
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. "
Well, here too you can admire the
breathtaking symbol for the future that our Father is building for us. Just as Yehoah once offered a country rich in cultures and homes to
His Children of Israel, so our Father will invite us to leave this land
symbolized by the coming out of the Sinai desert to receive as a new home the
whole universe with its billions of stars and planets. Our Father will ask us
to collaborate with Him to rebuild this universe that was destroyed by the
Devil and his army of fallen angels during the pre-Adamic
period, just as Israel should have done in the past with Land of Canaan.
Let us first read how Peter gives us
a glimpse of these events in his second letter, chapter 3 and verses 1 to 16:
" 1Beloved, I now write
to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way
of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were
spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles
of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will
come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and
saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For
this they willfully forget: that by the word of Elohim the heavens were
of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by
which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7
But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with Yehoah one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day. 9 Yehoah is not slack
concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,
not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of Yehoah will come as a
thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and
the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are
in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will
be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and
godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Elohim,
because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements
will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look
for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent
to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and
consider that the longsuffering of our Yehoah is
salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to
him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which
untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also
the rest of the Scriptures. "
Peter confirms what David had
already seen in a vision when he wrote in the Psalm 8:
" 1O Yehoah, our Yehoah, How excellent
is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have
ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and
the avenger.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work
of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4
what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than
the angels (in Hebrew, it is written the Elohim), and You have crowned him with
glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, 7 all
sheep and oxen— even the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the
air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O Yehoah, our Yehoah,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!"
So we are going to inherit from our
Father and Supreme Creator the whole universe, of which Satan and his demons
were the owners. These are all built homes that are ready to welcome us. The
whole creation is waiting to welcome us because it will put an end to the
mistreatment imposed on it by Satan the destroyer. Let's read this in Paul's
Romans, chapter 8, verses 19-21:
" 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the
revealing of the sons of Elohim. 20 For the creation was subjected
to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of Elohim. "
This free gift made by our
Creator is well symbolized by this living water flowing out of those who will cross
the border of this kingdom, as our Savior explains it precisely on the occasion
of this feast of the eighth day just after Sukkot (John 7: 37-39):
" 37 On the last
day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone
thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow
rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit,
whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet
given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
Follow your Shepherd!
In the meantime, all we have to do
is let ourselves be guided by our Shepherd, who
will help us to safely cross this kingdom of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:
4-5):
" 4 Yea, though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You
are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare
a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You
anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
The New Jerusalem, the apotheosis of Yehoah!
A final event will come to crown this
work: the descent of the New Jerusalem!
The coming of this New Jerusalem is
prefigured by the building of the Temple in Jerusalem prepared during the reign
of King David. Just as the Temple was built only after the conquest of the
Promised Land, this New Jerusalem will come only after the complete occupation
of the universe by the sons of the Lord, and it will become the center of all
important events and a space of festivities for the whole creation. Let us read
in Revelation, chapter 21 and 22 how will be revealed this unique wonder in all
the history of mankind:
Chapter 21.
"1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also
there was no more sea. 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven
saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of Elohim is with men, and He will dwell with
them, and they shall be His people. Elohim Himself will be with them and be
their Elohim. 4 And Elohim will wipe away every tear from their
eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There
shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
5 Then He who sat on the throne
said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write,
for these words are true and faithful.” 6 And He said
to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I
will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his Elohim and
he shall be My son. 8 But the
cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with
fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with
the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will
show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in
the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city,
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from Elohim, having the
glory of Elohim. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone,
clear as crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve
gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the
names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 three gates
on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three
gates on the west.
14 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were
the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he who talked
with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. 16
The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he
measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth,
and height are equal. 17 Then he measured its wall: one hundred and
forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18
The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure
gold, like clear glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of
the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation
was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony,
the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx,
the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl,
the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase,
the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21
The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of
one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like
transparent glass.
22 But I saw no temple in it, for Yehoah
Elohim Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23
The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of
Elohim illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24
And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings
of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall
not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And
they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27
But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination
or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Chapter 22.
1And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding from the throne of Elohim and of the Lamb. 2 In the
middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life,
which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves
of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall
be no more curse, but the throne of Elohim and of the
Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall
see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There
shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for
Yehoah Elohim gives them light. And
they shall reign forever and ever.
6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.”
And Yehoah Elohim of the holy prophets sent His angel
to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. 7
“Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy
of this book.”
8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw,
I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets,
and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship Elohim.”
10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this
book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be
unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous,
let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My
reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that
they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates
into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually
immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify
to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David,
the Bright and Morning Star.”
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears
say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires,
let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of
this book: If anyone adds to these things, Elohim will add to him the plagues
that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the
words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book
of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this
book.
I Am Coming Quickly
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming
quickly.”
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you all. Amen. "
What will be will
exceed in beauty whatever our imagination could one day conceive and yet it
will be true and very soon!
We will then be able to join David and address to our Creator the
words of Psalm 145:
"1 I will extol You, my Elohim, O King; and I will bless Your name forever
and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You, and
I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is Yehoah, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is
unsearchable.
4 One generation
shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare
Your mighty acts. 5 I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. 6 Men
shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I
will declare Your greatness.7 They shall utter the memory of Your
great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness.
8 Yehoah is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger
and great in mercy.
9 Yehoah is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all
His works.
10 All Your works
shall praise You, O Yehoah, and Your
saints shall bless You.
11 They shall
speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your
power,
12 To make known
to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.
13 Your kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures
throughout all generations. 14 The Yehoah
upholds all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed
down. 15 The eyes of all look expectantly to You,
and You give them their food in due season. 16 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 Yehoah is righteous in all His ways, gracious in all His
works.
18 Yehoah is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call
upon Him in truth.
19 He will
fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save
them.
20 Yehoah preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He
will destroy.
21 My mouth shall
speak the praise of the Yehoah, And
all flesh shall bless His holy name forever and ever."