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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