EARLY MORNING MANNA

What I will be sharing with you this morning is of extreme importance to understand since many of you have been picking up on your internal Doppler radar unusual signals from the Spirit of God that you have rarely encountered before concerning the days ahead. Let me brief you this morning that what you are seeing and discerning is a major new seam in history appearing in the battle plan of the Lord of the Armies of Heaven. We are in the saddle of the most exciting epoch (yet terrifying time to those who are not ready) of a major shift towards Israel’s salvation and the final shaking of the nations. How this will all fully unfold is only known by our Commander and Chief, however, the Scriptures do give us a morning star light and solid compass reading of what is ahead.

Read carefully this Morning Star text of extreme importance….

4 “In those days and at that time,” declares the LORD, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well;
they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the LORD their God they will seek.
5 “They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction;
they will come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
6?My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.
7?All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the LORD who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the LORD, the hope of their fathers (Jeremiah 50:4-7 NASB)

Now notice this….

1) This prophetic oracle is written during a time of great judgment and upheaval upon the sinister nation of Babylon (Iraq).
2) It will be during this time of great upheaval in Babylon (Iraq) that the sons of Israel will begin to repent in large numbers and return seeking the Lord God (vs. 4)!
3) They will be asking for the way to not Jerusalem (monarchy temple system) but rather the way to Zion (mobile tabernacle dwelling pattern).
4) These thirsty Jewish seekers will be looking to join themselves to a New Covenant with the Lord Jesus The Messiah in the days ahead!
5) What will bring about this extreme desperation will be the upheaval in Babylon (Iraq) and the lack of true shepherds! Scattered sheep are desperate sheep!
6) Why are they scattered? Because they have forgotten their resting place! The still waters (i.e. PS. 23) cannot be secured and enjoyed unless they are led by true Desert Shepherd Warriors who will fight for them in the valley of the shadow of death. Why? Because the watering holes are also the places were the wolves and lions feed at night (i.e. the valley of the shadow of death)! The sheep are scattered because the shepherds run from the fight at night at the watering holes! Thus the reason they are called hirelings….
7) Even the enemy feeds upon this disobedience and does not feel guilty for slaughtering the flock of God because they see the sin that is so entrenched in the camp of God’s people their opportunity to plunder!
So what is really the cause for such confusion and disorientation among God’s flock? It is because they have rejected the habitation of righteousness and the hope of their fathers!

Ok dear warriors, let us now key in even more to what are these statements used by the Prophet Jeremiah that have been lost in our English translations and Western world-view. The reason the Jewish people will come back weeping and looking for a new covenant to break with God at Zion is because it represents the Desert Shepherd Warrior model of David. For in this model is the nomadic shepherding pattern of faith that the patriarch forefathers lived by and thus gave birth to the covenant nation. (Remember, this pattern is based on the desert tabernacle and not the Solomonic temple. The Western church has built the most beautiful and elaborate “temples” and monarchy system but this still has and never will bring in the Jewish people! They (we) are pre-wired for the glory realm and know a fluke when we see it!!!)

The theme of returning back to God because He is our Habitation of Righteousness (vs. 7) is literally translated in Hebrew as the “just pasture”. The best pasture lands for the sheep was not in Jerusalem proper, but in the areas just East called the Midbar or the wilderness of Judea. Remember that the word Midbar is the same root for the word dvir which is the name of the Holy of Holies in the Temple complex. The idea of the desert areas being our righteous pasturage area to meet God and thus be our real Holy of Holies has been missed in our modern translations. One of God’s covenant names that has been rarely explored is that He is our green pastures and pasturage of repose in the desert which is outside the camp of Jerusalem’s Temple complex (Hebrews 13)! This is what the Jewish people are coming back to and the only thing that will satisfy their inner sonar soundings for YHWH!!!! This is the birthplace of their Abrahamic faith!!! …And it is yours to!!!

The second parallel phrase used by the Prophet Jeremiah was the Hope of their Fathers. What is so interesting is that this is one of the theme Scripture texts used in the early modern Zionists movement in encouraging the Jewish peoples to make aliyah and rebuild the Land of Israel the last 100 years! The beautiful national anthem of Israel is even titled The Hope, which lyrics sings of the Jewish people returning and rebuilding the land of our forefathers. This is all great…but let us remember that the modern Zionistic movement was largely a secular movement made up of many agnostic and atheistic Jewish people! So is this The Hope that will cause the Jewish people to come weeping and repenting to the Lord their God? No, in actual fact today we see many Israeli’s wanting to desperately leave their Land and live instead throughout the world! I was shocked in 2003 to hear from a gov’t official that over 40% of secular Israeli youth have never even been to Jerusalem and the Western wall…they want nothing to do with “religion”! (Can you really blame them….)

So what is the Hope of their Fathers that will cause multitudes of Jewish people in these last days, as they see Babylon under judgment, to seek out the God of Israel? Well this exciting find can be clearly seen in the proper elucidation of a specific Hebrew word root that has been heretofore little understood in Hebrew and therefore totally misunderstood in modern Jewish translations. The Prophet Jeremiah uses a special phrase here to describe an attribute of God: mikve avotehem, usually translated as the “hope of their fathers”. However, the same root comes from the Hebrew verb “to gather” (see Gen. 1:9; Joshua 2:18). Therefore, in this context this word should be more accurately translated as the gathering place, or the gathering place where the sheep rest! What Jeremiah is saying is so simple yet so profound! The Hope of Israel is the gathering place and just pasturage where God makes His sheep to be rested by the still waters in the desert (i.e. PS. 23), not just a luminous philosophical secular hope of having a normal life and a normal nation! The secular and humanistic “Hope” of Israel has played itself out into the dire fragmentation of political and religious factions seen in Israel today with the secular process now culminating into a large contingent of Israelis who want “Peace, Peace” at any cost! …And the Ultra-orthodox sects even denying that Israel should be recognized as a nation! This worldly “hope (i.e. aspirations)” of a nation to be built cannot hold the Jewish people together and has actually scatted them afar because there is few true shepherds in the land…mainly hireling in the political process who think only of themselves! Thus, God in these last days (when Babylon is being judged) is going to override this humanistic/secular ideas and put a supernatural desire and thirst for the Jewish people to want to return back…not to Jerusalem as their spiritual goal…but to the very ancient hope of our fathers! This hope is non other than the spiritual resting place of the sheep being gathered into the desert area next to the green pastures and waters of rest!!!! It is the living waters they will seek out with a zeal few have ever seen before (Romans 11)!! They are seeking and will not stop until they find these secret water aquifers of His presence and not the traditions of man! The Hope of Israel and every born again believer is not some seeker sensitive program dominated power point service…but the very Throne Room of YHWH to invade and supercede your natural senses and take you into the portal of Glory!!!! Now!!! On this side of Heaven!!!! This is where we are to be gathered!!! (Does your local shepherd do this, just talk about this, or avoid this???? Get off the auto pilot of always being feed by someone else and do your own digging in the Scriptures today!!!!)

Look at these other Scriptures that bring out this epic revelation of the last days awakening among the Jewish people….

13 “Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name.
14 “But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this?
For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You.
15 “For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow,
and there is no hope (gathering place) (I Chron. 29:13-15 NASB)

8 “O Hope (Gathering Point) of Israel,
Its Savior in time of distress,
Why are You like a stranger in the land
Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?
9 “Why are You like a man dismayed,
Like a mighty man who cannot save?
Yet You are in our midst, O LORD,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not forsake us!” (Jeremiah 14:8-9 NASB)

12 A glorious throne on high from the beginning
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope (Gathering Point) of Israel,
All who forsake You will be put to shame
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the LORD.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed;
Save me and I will be saved,
For You are my praise. (Jeremiah 17:12-14 NASB)

Now I encourage you to read John chapter 10 and see The Messiah Jesus in a new light of being the Chief Shepherd and that all shepherds will be judged according to this pattern as is again laid out in Ezekiel 34!

Thus the pattern for this coming awakening is going to be that the true Desert Shepherd Warrior who is named Jesus, is going to first raise up shepherds after the pattern of David who know how to gather the sheep into the secret springs of water in the desert. And second, knows how to protect them when the dark hour of the valley of the shadow of death comes (i.e. wolves). All others that imitate shepherds but are really hirelings or even wolves in sheep clothing are being separated out in this hour. As we see Babylon (Iraq and the mammon system) under the throes of a massive judgment…so to we see this Divine Judgment/separation in the House of God right now. This is why we are seeing so many sheep scattered right now and so many “leaders” only going ankle, waist, or chest deep into the River of God! Thus, the sheep are drinking muddy waters (Ezek. 34) and are not being properly nourished with the pure secret streams of living waters! Those shepherds who do not go out into the river of God all the way over their heads and into the deep waters are being disqualified by God in this hour and new shepherds are being raised up who really know His voice and know how to navigate in the dark hours in the desert! Again read John 10 in this greater context dear warriors and get a read on what is happening in the House of God in this late hour!

Next read Ezekiel 33 and then put the shofar to your lips and warn His people!

And what is the warning? It is in the next chapter of Ezekiel 34 and it is the false shepherds!!!! This is one reason God has given some of you a shofars as of late…and that is to warn the people of what is happening!!!! It is the time for the new Desert Shepherd Warriors to arise and lead the people to the ancient gathering (hope) place of our Fathers!!!!

…Then somewhere in this Divine cleansing…God initiates a hunger and thirst to overtake the unsaved Jewish people and they come weeping…seeking out this secret gathering place in the Desert and the blindness is removed. And the true Desert Shepherd Warriors will be there (you and I) in place ready to lead them, and heal them away from the monarchy antichrist system to the true waters of His repose and delight!!!

Can there by anything in life more rewarding than to discipline yourselves for this operation and objective?

In His service for your faith,

Scott and Dalit