THOU SHALT NOT LIE
By
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (March 14, 2018)
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44, King James Version [Christ answereth the Jews])…
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10, King James Version [Christ is the door]).
Greetings in the Holy Name of Jesus,
My sisters and brothers, this is a day of I AM my Father for so many of God’s children---even all of God’s children---the one body. “Then Jesus said, unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.” [John 8:28, King James Version, Christ answereth his doctrine]. For the strategy for teaching the children of creation, God was lonely and made himself a man.
Man was lonely and God made woman out of the rib of man. Folks so much happened because of loneliness. What torment entered you into because of loneliness that caused you immeasurable sufferings? When I thought about the moment Moses went down to the people from Mount Sinai, the spirit spoke to me, for I thought also of the moment Jesus hung on the cross for redemption sake, for I thought of the moment Jesus spoke firstly to his disciples, the people and then to Pilate, of the kingdom of heaven at hand just like a man living in a wide household, a house of society such as the House of Israel with a scornful hearted brawling woman such as a woman of contentions---it is better for the man to leave, do you not agree?[Proverbs 21:9, KJV, Moral virtues and contrary vices] How could the sin of the earth be so bad that the Prince of Peace could not stay except that it was the day of redemption?
When was the last time you had a “the kingdom of heaven is at hand moment”---it was then that the spirit spoke to me “day”, for it is truly the day Moses went down to the people from Mount Sinai, the day of redemption, and yes, the day the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus knew the time was nigh---he could not stay on earth, for the time was nigh---he had to leave---the kingdom of heaven was at hand just as the day of redemption was at hand and the day of Pilate’s authority to rule over Jesus was at hand. My brothers and sisters, you know where you are, in the space of time Before Christ
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[B.C.] , after the death of Christ [A.D.] or when a situation rules---lords over you---that it is that day---as Elijah hid at the back side of the mountain [Horeb] from Jezebel [I Kings 19:8, Elijah comforted by an angel], likewise, you must know Jesus stands between you and God to bear the burden of the government---the Prince of Peace to defend you in the courts of law, for he is the Great Intercessor, the Great Defender of the Faith, the counselor, and Wonderful, for it is times like that day---the day you find yourself in the midst of a situation that you must draw near to God---as the lepers living on the outskirts of town because of their illness. Jesus saves.
Most importantly, we find Moses in a day of reckoning when he went down to the people from Mount Sinai---the day God spoke to the children of Israel from heaven, for he put fear in them so that they would not sin. Howbeit the children of God stood afar off, as Moses told them to stay back from Mount Sinai [Exodus 19:21-23, KJV, so the children feared they would die and asked Moses to speak to them for they were in fear of the thundering and lightning, noise of the trumpet, and the smoke coming out of the mountain yet Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was [Exodus 20:18-26, KJV]? The day of reckoning became a day of consecration, in order for Moses to bestow upon them a blessing this day [32:29, KJV] for when Moses asked, “Who is on the Lord’s side? All of his tribe---the tribe of Levi came forth---stood by him and put forth their sword on their side to go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and three thousand men fell dead that day---the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses [32:28] [Exodus 32: 26-33, KJV, the idolaters slain], for,” Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.” The Word of God, [Exodus 32:33, KJV] The sin, you see, against God, could not take away from the works of God with Moses, for God spoke to Moses and called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah? And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and brass [Exodus 31: 1-11, KJV] to build the temple of God and the cloths of service, for the scepter shall remain in Judah but Aaron the priest sinned [he who made the golden calf], however, Aaron was the brother of Moses, of the Levite tribe---and the battle of whether Judah or Levi would hold the high priesthood began, however, God gave the high priesthood to Jesus of the tribe of Judah of the House of David, according to the order of Mechiseldec.
More importantly, I ask you, my brothers and sisters, Who is a lie? The Ten Commandments---became the Law of Moses and as we read The Word of God [Exodus 24:12; 31:18; 32:15-16, KJV], the children of Levi did according to the Word of Moses [the tribe of Levi acted like they were not a part of the great sin day as if their own---Aaron a Levi [Moses’ brother] did not make the golden calf] for they feared God and asked Moses to speak to them, so Moses asked them, Who is on the Lord’s side?---Levi
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had enough common sense to step out of the crowd of men of Israel to stand for the Lord’s side---a civil war began in Israel and ended with the tribe of Levi killing 3,000 transgressors---sinners, who built the golden calf in order to take the children of Israel---all the tribes that participated in the great sin---the day of the great sin---back to God ---to draw them back to God, Israel needed to consecrate and bless the day. Moses spoke to God, “…Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin---; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.” [32:32, KJV] However, the unfolding of the decisions made by Moses to get the people out of the day - of great sin, God’s forgiveness of the sin of idolatry did not give the scepter to Levi but because Moses was raised as a ruler in Egypt then later in exile from Egypt as a prophet--leader of God, the people accepted Moses, his brother Aaron, who made the golden calf and his sister.
Henceforth, the need of Moses to atone the great sin of Israel moved into the decision of God to give Judah the scepter---a decision that did not change even though the tribe of Levi took hold of the high priesthood, failing to judge Aaron---the brother of Moses who made the golden calf---just killing 3,000 men for the sin of idolatry, the people did not understand that the Word of God that Moses held written by the fingers of God [Exodus 24:12] was Jesus, the eternal holder of the high priesthood from the beginning, of the tribe of Judah, out of the House of David, for the Word of God is Jesus [John 3:16, KJV “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”]. For it is the Word of God that redeemed the children of Israel out of the death of sin, for Jesus is the Word of God. However, God told Moses, “…nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.” [Exodus 32:34-35, KJV]. God gave Moses a new tablet of the ten commandments like the first one he received that he broke in anger against Israel for God warned him of his jealousy of Israel whoring after the people of the lands that the Israel would inherit and warned against whoring after the gods of the people of the lands that they would inherit and warned them against making a covenant with the people of the lands that they would inherit [Exodus chapter 34] for God proclaimed:
“The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” [34:6-7, KJV [God’s covenant with Israel]
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In closing, the act of getting in cahoots with sinners is how the society-at-large spoke of the recruitment of sinners---letting the snake in---the same as getting in cahoots with the officials of the underworld---the corruption and whoredom of the world---even the whoredom of Babylon, known as the leading nation of the world who persecuted and enslaved Israel and destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, at one time. We find the injustice of the world is perplexed with broken systems that enslave those Jesus made free [John 8:32,36,KJV] and continued to enslave as African Americans in the United States of America did not feel the freedom they help fight for to gain independence from England. Likewise, African Americans did not feel the freedom of the Emancipation Proclamation that they fought for in the Civil War of the USA that freed the slaves in the USA. However, the Word of God says whomever Jesus freed was free indeed, so is the world in a lie that enslaves free men and women and strips them of their citizenship---the citizenship that Jesus gave them in the kingdom of God---for Apostle Paul when apprehended said, “I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city:…” [The Acts 21:39, Paul apprehended by the Jews] In the Name of Jesus.
Amen.
