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Picking up where we left off, The prophet Joel prophesied The Trumpet is being blown because the day of the Lord was at hand. I also mentioned about the parable of the 10 virgins of which only those who had sufficient oil were prepared. What was the difference between the wise and foolish virgins. The wise had understanding and when the time came to awake were prepared.
The prophet Joel speaks of those in mourning in chapter 1:
Joe 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Joe 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joe 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joe 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Joe 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
The wise will see the desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel of which Christ gave reference:
Mat 24:15 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
And you may say that this is about temple sacrifice, and it is, for the temple sacrifice was observed and followed by those who were partakers of the afflictions of Christ for doing the will of God.
2Ti 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Give close ear to what I say: The daily sacrifice foreshadowed the sufferings of Christ and His body the Church for doing the will of God. His will shall be performed indefinitely. But His Will will not always be with sufferings, but the sufferings came because of the evil that surrounded the righteous. The light or fire of this operation was the execution of judgment which manifested the way of Christ:
Isa 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Psa 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
The sufferings with the persecution and tribulation in this operation was a sign of the righteous judgment of God to bring to light by manifesting the way of Godliness in Christ.
2Th 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2Th 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
The "burning" of the offering is the sufferings of the body of Christ and for these sufferings, along with the offering came the wine and grain offerings. The goodness of the grain, wine, and oil. With the sufferings (burning) came the consolation:
2Co 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Co 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2Co 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2Co 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2Co 1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
The sufferings of the gospel and grace of the consolation went hand and hand, empowered with the light by the execution of judgment. Paul realized that the sufferings from affliction were rewarded with the consolation:
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind(lacking) of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
As long as there was light, and thus people doing the will of God, the afflictions continued along with the consolation. Confusion and darkness moved in and the will of God was soon replaced with the will of men and there was a cutting off:
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
In the Joel prophecy, this cutting off has taken place:
Joe 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joe 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Paul wrote in Philippians that he was being poured out upon the sacrifice and service of faith like a drink offering:
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Php 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
He was a vessel holding Gods Word spoken for the edification of faith which comes from hearing the Word. Like a wine, it brings Spirit of Joy to the obedient but to those who remove their ears from the truth it brings delusion or spiritual drunkenness.
Deu 29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Paul said this was going to happen:
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
This is the casting down of the truth spoken of in Daniel:
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Casting down by turning from the will of God (Spiritual) to the will of man (carnal).
Understanding these things is from God, and this is the initial blast of the trumpet to warn us what has transpired, and to show us what must take place.
Followed by the Feast of trumpets is the Day of Atonement. A day of affliction of one's soul.
A time to humble one self and get in the right perspective with God. The Joel prophecy brings this out:
Joe 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joe 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joe 2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Joe 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Because of those who will understand and repent and turn to God, there will be a restoration. This needs to be because the feast of Tabernacles follows and it is a celebration of the increase of the Earth. You do not want to show up empty handed when God demands His increase of glory, honor, and praise.
Deu 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Deu 16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Deu 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
The prophet Joel shows that God will restore His Goodness to those who know and do His will:
Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Joe 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joe 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joe 2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
If you have had the patience and understanding to read all of this, you are not that far from the day of Gladness, that God is beginning to speak to man and bring forth the substance of His hope as you are hearing the trumpet:
Num 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs says that the hope of the righteous is gladness, and if your hear and see His judgments concerning Christ, you may have just witnessed the new moon, a light that shines in darkness.
Pro 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Psa 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Hos 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
The Fall Holy Days shall come with the manifestation of God's will, and not everyone doing what is right in their own eyes:
Rev 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
God bless you all who hear and understand this report.
The prophet Joel speaks of those in mourning in chapter 1:
Joe 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Joe 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joe 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joe 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Joe 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
The wise will see the desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel of which Christ gave reference:
Mat 24:15 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
And you may say that this is about temple sacrifice, and it is, for the temple sacrifice was observed and followed by those who were partakers of the afflictions of Christ for doing the will of God.
2Ti 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Give close ear to what I say: The daily sacrifice foreshadowed the sufferings of Christ and His body the Church for doing the will of God. His will shall be performed indefinitely. But His Will will not always be with sufferings, but the sufferings came because of the evil that surrounded the righteous. The light or fire of this operation was the execution of judgment which manifested the way of Christ:
Isa 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Psa 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
The sufferings with the persecution and tribulation in this operation was a sign of the righteous judgment of God to bring to light by manifesting the way of Godliness in Christ.
2Th 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2Th 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
The "burning" of the offering is the sufferings of the body of Christ and for these sufferings, along with the offering came the wine and grain offerings. The goodness of the grain, wine, and oil. With the sufferings (burning) came the consolation:
2Co 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
2Co 1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2Co 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2Co 1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2Co 1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
The sufferings of the gospel and grace of the consolation went hand and hand, empowered with the light by the execution of judgment. Paul realized that the sufferings from affliction were rewarded with the consolation:
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind(lacking) of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
As long as there was light, and thus people doing the will of God, the afflictions continued along with the consolation. Confusion and darkness moved in and the will of God was soon replaced with the will of men and there was a cutting off:
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
In the Joel prophecy, this cutting off has taken place:
Joe 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joe 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Paul wrote in Philippians that he was being poured out upon the sacrifice and service of faith like a drink offering:
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Php 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
He was a vessel holding Gods Word spoken for the edification of faith which comes from hearing the Word. Like a wine, it brings Spirit of Joy to the obedient but to those who remove their ears from the truth it brings delusion or spiritual drunkenness.
Deu 29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Paul said this was going to happen:
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
This is the casting down of the truth spoken of in Daniel:
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Casting down by turning from the will of God (Spiritual) to the will of man (carnal).
Understanding these things is from God, and this is the initial blast of the trumpet to warn us what has transpired, and to show us what must take place.
Followed by the Feast of trumpets is the Day of Atonement. A day of affliction of one's soul.
A time to humble one self and get in the right perspective with God. The Joel prophecy brings this out:
Joe 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joe 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joe 2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Joe 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Because of those who will understand and repent and turn to God, there will be a restoration. This needs to be because the feast of Tabernacles follows and it is a celebration of the increase of the Earth. You do not want to show up empty handed when God demands His increase of glory, honor, and praise.
Deu 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Deu 16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Deu 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
The prophet Joel shows that God will restore His Goodness to those who know and do His will:
Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Joe 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joe 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joe 2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
If you have had the patience and understanding to read all of this, you are not that far from the day of Gladness, that God is beginning to speak to man and bring forth the substance of His hope as you are hearing the trumpet:
Num 10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs says that the hope of the righteous is gladness, and if your hear and see His judgments concerning Christ, you may have just witnessed the new moon, a light that shines in darkness.
Pro 10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Psa 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Hos 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
The Fall Holy Days shall come with the manifestation of God's will, and not everyone doing what is right in their own eyes:
Rev 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
God bless you all who hear and understand this report.