Friday, February 28, 2014

The House of the Lord

Today I will share from a dream I had six years ago.  It is about a work the Lord would like us to finish, and explains why this work stopped.

In the dream I was walking in rugged hills, separated from others and alone.  I was hoping others would find me soon because I was thirsty.  I looked out over the ridged mountains as I descended down a side from on high.  There was a royal cluster of 5 mountains in the distance, which looked like red marble with ribbons of white throughout it.  All the ridged mountains were made of the same marble-looking substance, but were low, though sharply ridged.  I understood that it was a time of judgment and I had been shown what was to take place in the land, for no matter how tall or great the mountains were, they would bear God’s judgment.

Then I was in a house that was being built.  It was on a mountain made of dirt (the usual things mountains were made of) and overlooked all the other mountains, and was high above them.  There was a room inside the house where wood was sawn (I saw the table with the saw on it), and the room had a window which overlooked all the other mountains.  A man came in briefly and talked with me but did not stay.  After he left I asked the Lord, saying “I wish you would give me just one man” (to labor there and finish the work).  End of dream.

The Lord said that the mountains in this dream were scarlet, and referred me to Rev 17:3.  He told me that I was walking in the city of the Great Prostitute, and that I had seen the 5 hills that were, and are no more (Rev 17:9-10).  He is speaking spiritually, for it is a spiritual city of unfaithfulness to God.  The white ribbons in the scarlet marble are veins of truth, for she, the Prostitute, was given truth yet became unfaithful to it.

The lower, ridged mountains are made of the same material as the 5 hills which are part of the 7 which support the Prostitute and represent spiritual unfaithfulness also. 

The house being built from wood on the highest mountain is the House of the Lord, being built on the mountain of the Lord.  The house is unfinished, and deserted.  I am praying for God to send laborers, for we need to finish the labors of those who went before us. 

The window is for seers, prophets, and those to whom the Lord will give eyes to see the hour and season we live in.  We are near the ending of a season, and the beginning of another.  We need to pick up the tools and finish what is appointed to us to do.  God is building His kingdom.

There is a prophecy about the house of the Lord in Isaiah 56:7.  It is exciting to think that the Lord is building a place of prayer and joy in our midst.  It is a place of offerings and sacrifices, where outsiders and those cut off are accepted by God (Is 56:3-7).  God receives all men who obey Him. Yet this is what caused the former workers on His house to cease their labors.  Men no longer receive one another, accepting the work God has done in them and through them.  Because men trust in themselves, they reject outsiders.

Jesus asks us to receive one another, and in doing so, receive their gifts, callings, and all the work God has done in them.

 “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.  Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.  And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.” (Mt 10:40-42). 

We cannot finish the work of the Lord in our cities and communities if we reject our brothers and sisters.  Though the past laborers were good at measuring and cutting, they were not good at measuring their brethren, and cut them out of the work of the Lord.  And so it sits unfinished.  When the workers hold God’s purposes for His house as valuable, they will build for Him and not for themselves.  The house will be for all who love and obey God, and at that time, when the house of the Lord is finished, people from all nations will enter in to worship Him.



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