Christmas Is Coming

[Verse 1]

What I want to talk about.

Are you ready?

The King is coming.

Your day of visitation.

That's what we'll talk about today.

And it covers quite a bit of stuff

that you mightn't think relate to it, but

it does.

[Verse 2]

Today I'm talking about the house of God,

the temple, the tabernacle,

the dwelling place of Jehovah

and God's people

as his dwelling place

in the earth today. The tabernacle's gone, the

temple's gone, but you're here.

The dwelling place of God,

that he may manifest himself, that you may

experience his presence, be touched by the anointing,

be challenged by the Word,

and come alive to the truth of Scripture.

[Verse 3]

Jehovah

in the midst of his people,

that's what he comes. We don't come to

a dead God.

We don't come to a dead place.

We come to a place of life

where the Spirit, Ruach,

moves in our presence

and touches our hearts,

touches our minds,

brings conviction into our lives, brings release and

freedom

into our beings.

That's Shabbat.

That's the house of God. That's the blessing

of the Almighty.

[Verse 4]

I want to read Psalm 122,

just a short Psalm,

verses 1 to 8.

This is David. What an amazing man was

David.

The anointing upon that man is just incredible.

The giftings that flowed out of him are

just amazing. He was a prophet of God,

and he penned and wrote songs and psalms

and prophetic statements and utterances

that are just

mind-boggling.

He was a man after God's own heart.

This is no exception.

A song of a sense of David.

I rejoiced when they said to me, let

us go to the house of Jehovah. I

mean that's a powerful positive statement in this

man's life. Let us go to the house

of Yehovah.

He's the King

of Israel. He's the King

of the nation.

I'd like to hear our Prime Minister speak

like this.

Let us go to the house of Yehovah.

Our feet are standing in your gates."

Jerusalem.

[Verse 5]

Jerusalem built as a city, joined together.

That joined together phrase means to accommodate an

assembly,

the purpose of Jerusalem,

joining together God's people,

the central place of meeting and gathering, joining

hearts and minds together as 1.

Let us go to the house of Yehovah

as 1 people, 1 body, 1 heart, 1

mind.

[Verse 6]

There

the tribes go up, the tribes of Yehovah,

as a testimony to Israel. Isn't it amazing?

When people flock

to the house of God, it's a testimony

to their nation,

to their city,

to their community.

When it's for the purposes of Yehovah built

on His kingdom,

with Jerusalem

being the main point of reference.

Not Jerusalem

in the physical, but Jerusalem

in the spiritual, Jerusalem in the eternal, the

Jerusalem that is in heaven waiting to come

down on earth, the new Jerusalem

that we have in our hearts and minds,

the 1 that is spoken of in Hebrews

and Abraham was looking for, that city

made

by God whose foundations

and structure

is God.

[Verse 7]

That's the 1 he was looking for. It's

the 1 that we too

are putting our faith and hope and trust

in. It doesn't mean that Jerusalem isn't a

powerful figure in the world today. Yehovah is

using Jerusalem

and everyone who tries to touch it is

finding that it is a heavy burden.

It's bringing them into that place

of conflict with God,

in the political, in the natural,

but in the spiritual,

it's also doing its work in our lives,

here today,

in our cities, wherever we meet, in the

power of His name.

[Verse 8]

There the tribes go up, the tribes of

Jehovah, as a testimony to Israel to praise

the name of Jehovah.

To praise the name of Jehovah.

Why go to the house of God if

you're not going to praise Him? Why go

to the house of God if you're not

going to praise Him?

Why go to the house of God if

you're not going to give Him honor,

and praise, and rejoice, and sing?

That's our God.

We're told by the prophets that Jehovah rejoices

over us. He sings over us. He dances

and twirls over us. Did you know that

about God?

That's what the prophets tell us.

That's God rejoicing in us.

[Verse 9]

Verse 5, For there

thrones for judgment are set up, the thrones

of the house of David." Wow, there's a

change of metaphor, isn't there? The house of

Jehovah

is a place where there are thrones for

judgment.

God is making a statement about his house.

It brings the blessing of heaven or the

judgments of God.

1 of the 2 is going to flow

out of it.

Both are going to flow out of it.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

May those who love you be at peace.

It's not just about praying for the peace

of Jerusalem,

it's about those who love Jerusalem

praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

And we know from scripture what love means.

Love means obedience

to the commands of God.

[Verse 10]

And when we are obedient to the truth

of what Jerusalem stands for and means,

it puts a whole different

emphasis upon how we pray

for the peace of Jerusalem.

May there be Shalom

within your world,

within your walls,

Quietness

within your palaces.

For the sake of my brothers and friends,

I now say,

Shalom

be within you.

Now for the sake of my friends,

My brothers,

I say,

shalom

be within you.

For the sake of the house of Jehovah

our Elohim,

I will seek your good.

[Verse 11]

What an amazing psalm.

That came from the Spirit of God.

It never came from the intellect of man.

It was a spiritual truth that God deposited

into his heart.

And in Davidic truth,

he brought it forth.

It's a psalm that's

under the inspiration

of the Ruach, the breath of God, flowed

through David in the penning of that psalm.

He was a man after God's own heart

and it flowed out of him.

But the powerful

sentiments

of this writing

is how

valuable

and important

is the gathering of Elohim's

people together

in His house.

[Verse 12]

That is the central theme of this,

is the powerful

purpose of God's people gathering together

in that which He defines as His house.

And so,

His house

is

a place that is designated

to accommodate the gathering of an assembly or

a congregation

and it's specifically

put here on the earth for that purpose.

The tabernacle

under Moses

was the central gathering point of the whole

nation.

Every tribe of Israel

was placed around

the tabernacle

in their right order on the north, south,

east and west

with the priesthood in front on the eastern

gates and flanks.

That was their gathering point. That was where

God placed his name. It's where the cloud

of his presence dwelt.

Cloud of fire

by night and a cloud by day, his

presence was always there, the gathering point.

[Verse 13]

Tabernacle,

the temple

under David and Solomon, no different,

and the house of God in the spiritual

today,

no different.

It is specifically,

we are specifically

put here for that purpose.

Yehovah

does not change.

What he said then

is for now.

His truths then are His truths now. What

He was doing then He wants to do

now.

And His principles

don't change.

[Verse 14]

If we gather in His name on His

day,

He will bring to pass His promises.

Praise Yehovah!

Bless this city

as we come into it.

The gathering of Elohim's people

is the kingdom of heaven

being established here on earth.

Ever thought of it that way?

Your presence

here today

is the Kingdom of Heaven being established

here in this city of Mildura.

Wow!

Lots of Scriptures and truths to bear that

out.

But it's only

the kingdom of heaven

being established here on earth

when it's being built exactly according to the

plans

laid out in the heavenly.

[Verse 15]

Unless Yehovah

build the house,