1997.06.08
Canaan, but I will not go up in the midst of you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst, I would consume you in one moment », and the Lord was coming to the tent of meeting, outside of the camp of the Israel’ s tents, and there He would spoke with Moses face to face, as someone speaks with his friend, and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord, because the Lord told him so: « Write these for a memorial in a book ».
Israel did not understand what the Lord’ s rest was, because he was a stiff-necked people, and the Lord could not rest in him. But God made of Moses His rest, and He taught him what to speak over Israel and He opened Moses’ mouth. When Moses went up the second time on the Mount of Sinai, so that the Lord may give him ordinances over Israel, for Israel to observe them and so that the Lord may rest in Israel from His work upon him, when Moses reached up in the mountain, the cloud of the Lord’ s glory came down, covering the mountain for six days, and on the seventh day, the Lord called Moses out of the midst of the cloud, and Moses had been standing in the midst of the cloud for forty days and forty nights, and the Lord gave him ordinances over Israel. The seventh day was lengthened to forty days and the Lord had rested over Moses forty days and forty nights, and the man does not know what the day of the Lord’ s rest means. I was resting over Moses with those good of Mine that I wanted to do and to put over Israel, and I was looking over them and all were very good; however, when Moses was coming to put them over Israel, so that I may rest from those of Mine upon him, Israel remained a stiff-necked people, and I was not able to rest upon him. Israel did not receive Me to rest upon him, and he kept saying to Moses: « Go and speak with the Lord, and speak with us yourself what the Lord is speaking upon us ». And I said this: « Israel, remember the day of the Lord to keep it holy », for I worked six days for you to make your happiness, and rested on the seventh day. I made the heaven and earth and everything that I made for the man, and then I rested the seventh day and I blessed it, as the man blesses a church and sanctifies it after he makes it.
The man should make a church of him within six days, and make the seventh day holy and bless it, as I did. The church means the heaven and earth of God among the people, the word and the Lord’ s body, the new man’ s creation.( See the selection topic: „ The true church”, r. n.) I made the heaven and earth in six days, but what has the man made in six days? I said among My commandments: « Man, remember the day of the Lord to make it holy ». But I also said this in My commandments: « Man, you shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not give false testimony against your neighbor; you shall not be greedy ». Oh, he, who violates these, also violates the day of the Lord by these.
I hear the words of those who talk tall that they keep the seventh day; I hear them when they say that if a commandment is violated you become guilty of all, and you violate them all by the one violated. Oh, if you, who say that you are afraid not to break this commandment of the day of the Lord, so that you may not become guilty of all the other commandments, why are you really not afraid of breaking the other commandments which say: « You shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall lie; you shall not be greedy, and to love God by not doing these and not taking in vain His word and His name, and by honoring Him as your Father and mother?» No man can boast that he keeps all My commandments, and how comes that you can boast that you keep them? You, who boast about My commandments, why do you break them by dishonoring them? But did My Holy Spirit not tell you by Paul’ s Scriptures; did he not tell that you, who boast about the law and the commandments, you also break and dishonor them? My commandments come one by one as a chain, and each one of them comes from the one before it, and all come from the first one, not from the forth one, and the fourth one, which you
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