The Lord woke me this morning with this word, HOUSE. I immediately thought of two houses.
One, being the house of the Lord, which our Father is making by His Spirit. The House, which we become members of by spiritual birth from the Seed of our Father, through Jesus Christ.
Secondly, a house that only seems right to man in his quest to reach out to God. A house built on carnal thinking. A house which is lacking true knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Today, the Lord showed me the 5th Chapter of Zechariah. He saw a flying scroll. It is the Word of the Lord. I thought of Moses, when he spoke to Israel before his departure. He spoke of great blessings promised for obedience, but also curses promised for disobedience. In the 5th chapter, we see a curse coming forth over the face of the whole land to a house of disobedience (wickedness). The curse is from the Lord of Host, and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by the Lord's name. It shall abide in the midst of his house and shall consume it; both it's timbers and it's stones.
He saw an ephah, (sized vessel of measurement), and the one called wickedness is also called woman. This is called woman, because it brings forth many children. She was placed in the ephah and a weight of lead placed upon the mouth ofit. The ephah was taken to a place to build it a house in the land of Shinar. The woman in this vessel is the symbol of sinners and their guilt, and will set there upon her own base.
When I saw the word Shinar, I knew the Lord was talking to me of the house of Babylon. In Genesis 10:10, we find that Nimrod, the mighty hunter, had the beginning of his kingdom called Babel. In Chapter 11, we find, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. It was in this place, they began to build a city and a tower, whose top may reach into heaven. Babylon is the Greek word for Babel. Babel means confusion.
God came down to see this city and tower, which the children of men were building. The Lord said, the people are one, and they have all one language. There would not be a restraining of all they have imagined to do. It was God who confounded their language that they may not understand one another's speech and the name given to it was called Babel, (Babylon).
We may ask, "Why did God do this?" Because the people were building according to what they imagined to do. This word imagined in the Hebrew is not in a good way. The word in Hebrew is (zamam), meaning to plan, usually in a bad sense; consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
To build in an imagined way - is to build without True Knowledge - (confusion). It is to build by mental images, as produced by memory or imagination - to bring forth descriptions and figures of speech.
The city of Babylon has a tower in it. In Hebrew, the description of this word tower in the city of Babylon means: to promote from it's size or height; a rostrum, a built up place, a platform for public speaking, pyramidal, bed of flowers, castle, flower, pulpit.
Two Houses: One righteous, and the other evil. And both houses has it's own tower.
The Righteous Tower can be seen in scriptures such as: Ps. 18:2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my buckler, the horn of my salvation, and my HIGH TOWER.
Isaiah the 5th Chapter, I will sing to my beloved touching His vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. He fenced it and gathered out the stones. He planted it with the choicest Vine, and built a tower in the midst of it. He also made a winepress therein. Matthew 21:33-40 Jesus spoke this when He told the parable of His Father, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it.
Pertaining to the House of Righteousness - there is a counterfeit, made in imitation, to defraud, play actors. The way that only seems right to those who cannot see very far, and to those who are blind and deaf. When Zechariah spoke the prophecy of this wicked house, babel, babylon, he spoke of the house called the mystery of iniquity. The same one whom Paul spoke of in 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. This Babylon, the mystery of iniquity, was at work in the book of Genesis, it was at work in Zechariah's day, in Paul's day, and has become very powerful today. This wicked one will also continue, until the day it shall be taken away, Revelation 18.
My LORD has restrained this one, holding it back from doing all that it would like to do. He has done it the same way He did in Nimrod's day at the tower of Babel. He has confounded their language, that they might not understand one another's speech. It is a divided kingdom. Each house has a different dance they dance to, and wonder why the other doesn't dance to the same tune of words in the way they worship. This one has built their own towers and there is no - winepress. This one is what Paul spoke of when he said in 2Th 2:6 "And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time."
Unfortunately, this great Babylon has done the same thing as in the days of old. It has taken the Lord's people captive because of the lack of knowledge of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, Our High Tower. The True House of the LORD.
The Babylon of today is also found wanting, as she uses and drinks from the vessels of the Lord. She has used these vessels for her own pleasure. These vessels belong, not in Babylon, but back in the True House which our Father birthed them for.
The sons of God are joined to the - daughters of men - and giants have been produced. I have heard from the Lord - judgment will soon begin - then will the Lord be present to heal. A voice in the wilderness, come you out, prepare to meet your Lord. O Zion, deliver yourself, you that dwell with the daughter of Babylon. The man of sin and his house will soon be revealed. These two houses are together today as a field of wheat and tares.
Because we are living at the close of this age, and our Father's Kingdom is about to be established, many of the Lord's House are becoming restless. They are becoming restless, because they are hearing from the Lord of a big change coming. I think of Peter, who said, "the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day". We who are hearing from the Lord know that the night of the sixth day is far spent. We are the last generation, when the big change must take place. The Morning Sun of the 7th day is not far off. The clock is ticking - soon it will be the midnight hour. A cry will be heard, just as Jesus said would come to the ten virgins. Where will the cry come from?
I see a messenger who like John the Baptist, was pressed by the Holy Spirit to leave his father and mother and the temple to go into the wilderness to be prepared under the heat of the Sun. They have been there for many years. Their hearts have been changed, their own will crucified. I see them now, waiting - for the commandment of the Lord. Soon they will be sent. They will not go by themselves, for the Lord has promised them, He would go with them. You will know them by these characteristics.
His messenger will not seek any glory, admiration or rewards from any man, woman or child. What the messenger hears in the ear from the Lord is what will be spoken. The words will be like that of John the Baptist, and like the words that were spoken in the days of Noah. These will not go forth to make disciples unto themselves, nor to build any more buildings of wood, brick or mortar. They will be like sign posts pointing the way to the True House of the Lord, made without hands. It will not be in parables, but will be words plainly spoken by the Lord to be understood. The messenger of the Lord will be quick to admit to you that he is not your master, nor you king; for his whole purpose is to hold out a light to the Lord's people to see Jesus in a brighter light than they have ever seen before. A Voice in the wilderness saying, "I am not your Master or your King, but He who has sent me is Truth, He is your Master, He is your King, HEAR YOU HIM! His name is Jesus. Let your eyes be opened, see Him, hear Him for yourself and become like Him."
I see a shaking by the Word of the Lord coming, the Word came to the dry bones of Ezekial. I see an army - like the rising of a man out of the earth. The army shakes itself from the dust of the earth. I see the heart and mind of this Army, changed into the unity of one mind. There is no division among them, for they see Jesus as He really IS, and are become like Him. I see this Army, with banners flying, leaning on the arm of it's lover, Jesus Christ, the KING OF KINGS. I see the fulfillment of the prophesied word of Enoch, the seventh from Adam. The Lord comes with ten thousands of His Saints to execute judgment.
I hear the Words of the Lord, "Who is that faithful and wise servant, whom the Lord will make ruler over His household, to give them meat in due season? Who will be found worthy? Blessed will be that servant, when your Lord comes and finds you doing what is right according to the Words that Jesus has spoken."
We all need to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Lord's Church today. Most of all, to prepare ourselves for His coming. I see a little Book in the hands of my Father, and He is about to give it to my Lord.