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"Awake, Arise, and Build!"
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To My ministers, both five-fold, and ambassadors for Christ,
"Arise, and build My Church! Have you not seen the need for revival among My people? Have you not seen the lacerations and bruises which have been inflicted upon My Beloved by the enemy of their souls? Have you not seen the wounds which need to be bound up? Have you not seen the need for sanctification crying out to the heavens among My people?
Awake, O Church of the Living God, and remove the thorns and thistles which have grown up and left My house open to be overrun by wild beasts and birds of prey? My people are NEVER meant to be a reproach, for they are the children of the King of heaven and earth!
How could this happen to My children, you ask. It happens when sin, lying at the door, is embraced, rather than shunned by My people, many times when they are not warned of the progression of sin which leads to death.
Instead of the preaching of repentance, indulgence in worldly practices is tolerated in My house. Holiness of lifestyle is required by Me, yet My children are left to follow the voice of a stranger into the dens of wickedness. This cannot continue, for I place the lampstands in My church, and I send the messengers to proclaim My pure Word. Harken to My voice, for I am sounding a trumpet and a clarion call. Follow this blowing of the shofar to My temple, and fall upon your faces before Me in repentance. Sanctify yourselves and your flocks. Let the priests weep between the porch and the altar. Return to Me, and I will return to you. Behold, I come quickly."
Nehemiah 2:17-20
17Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
20Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 3:1
1Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; Nehemiah 3:1
Betty Seiley
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